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Dell Venue 8 7000, "World's Thinnest Tablet" With Intel Moorefield Atom Reviewed

MojoKid (1002251) writes "Dell recently launched their Android-based Venue 8 7000 slate, claiming it's the "world's thinnest" tablet. It measures a mere 6 millimeters thick, or 0.24 inches and change. That's 0.1mm slimmer than Apple's iPad Air 2 and 1.5mm flatter than the iPad mini 3, giving Dell full bragging rights, even if by a hair. Dell also opted for an Intel Atom Z3580 processor under the hood, clocked at up to 2.3GHz. This quad-core part is built on Intel's 22nm Moorefield microarchitecture. Compared to its Bay Trail predecessor, Moorefield comes in a smaller package with superior thermal attributes, as well as better graphics performance, courtesy of its PowerVR G6430 graphics core. The Venue 8 7000 also features one of the best 8-inch OLED displays on the market, with edge-to-edge glass and a 2560x1600 resolution. Finally, the Venue 8 7000 is also the first to integrate Intel's RealSense Snapshot Depth Camera, which offers interesting re-focusing and stereoscopic effects, with potentially other, more interesting use cases down the road. Performance-wise, the Venue 8 7000 is solid enough though not a speedster, putting out metrics in the benchmarks that place it in the middle of the pack of premium tablets on the market currently."

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  1. Bend ? by itzly · · Score: 4, Funny

    But will it bend ?

  2. Re:0.1mm by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it even noticeable without a precision caliber?

    When buying tablets, I always bring a set good to .001, a fraction of a mm makes a significant difference in consumer purchasing decisions.

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  3. Re:Needs a Sammich by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    it likely to feint after a few minutes work.

    That's why you always aim for the belt buckle.

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