This “leaked” image shows a Dell tablet that just turn out to be a good idea if they came out with it right now: it’s basically a 7-inch tablet (OS unknown) that rocks a slide-out split-key QWERTY keyboard. The keyboard’s layout makes it easy to use with just your thumbs – a handy feature for a compact tablet that you’ll usually hold up with two hands.
Dell’s XPS 15z received a bit of hype earlier this month after it was claimed to be the “slimmest 15-inch notebook in the world” at 0.97 inches. It was the wrong kind of hype though, especially after everyone remembered that Apple’s unibody MacBook Pros have been measuring 0.95 inches since 2008, but whatever. Anyway, it’s still technically the slimmest 15-inch Windows-based notebook around (maybe), so that still counts for something. It’s still a pretty notable notebook, simply because, well, it looks good, with a very decent spec to match. And you can go out and buy it now, depending on where you live.
A new Dell tablet has just been spotted, appearing on a Dutch leak. Known as the Streak Pro, the tablet is said to measure only 0.35 inches thick, and weigh 1.6 pounds – slightly thicker and heavier than the iPad 2 (at 0.35 inches and 1.33 pounds), but this tablet also comes with a slightly larger 10-inch screen.
Dell has announced new updates to their XPS line of performance notebooks. The changes involve major internal and external updates for the XPS 15 and XPS 17, giving them a new look as well as a new platform based on Intel’s Huron River motherboards and Sandy Bridge dual and quad-core processors.
We get that it’s exciting when you’re a part of a company that’s about to launch a new product. What we don’t get is how these employees failed so badly on a PR stunt that the police had to break up a party and haul them away. Anyway, here’s basically what happened: as part of an internal PR stunt, Bryan Chester ran through Dell’s Round Rock campus offices dressed in black, wearing a mask, metallic objects in hand, and telling people to “go to the lobby,” where, according to a source, some sort of promotional event for the new Dell Streak tablet was about to take place (it looks like it had something to do with the tablet being able to interface with Harley Davidson bikes, which might explain the black biker getup Chester was wearing, but doesn’t explain the decision to go about it that way). Unfortunately, only Chester and his supervisor Daniel Rawson was in on it. To cut a long story short, Round Rock police ended up arresting the two for causing the disturbance. Check out the news clip after the break, or read the whole story here.
