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."

Comments

Re:Dell Venue 8 7000?

[DexterIsADog]

Who the hell decided to call something "Dell Venue 8 7000"? You don't put two numbers one after another, it's just stupid!

Time to fire the marketing guys!

You're posting about it, so I guess the marketing guys earned their pay on this one. Sure, you can say, "but, but I'm pointing out how stupid that is!"

Makes no difference; you already made the contribution that they wanted from you. For free.

Re:0.1mm

[ArcadeMan]

A thicker device would be sturdier and have room for a bigger battery.

Re:Good Grief

[MichaelSmith]

I wouldn't mind having a phone as thin and light as a credit card. Then it would feel like a... credit card, which you know, feels fine in my hand.

Until you sit on it, forget it's there and run it through the was, or leave it on a pile of paper on your desk that later gets shredded...

Funnily enough similar arguments were made against VLSI microprocessors in the days of mainframes. What if I left my computer in my pants pocket and it got washed?