![]() This is a launcher with links to touch-friendly apps for playing music and video and looking at your photos (including images from social networks), an ebook reader and kids painting program (which oddly doesn’t support multitouch even though Windows Paint does), plus icons to launch the browser and Games folder. We’d suggest increasing the DPI to 125% to make buttons easier to touch (the high resolution means this isn’t as painful as on other Windows tablets) but Dell tries to get around it by automatically launching the Dell Stage experience when you flip the screen. That means it rotates out of sight when you flip to tablet mode.Īlthough the touchscreen is responsive for gestures like swiping through Web pages and pinching to zoom in and out, it’s not always quite accurate enough for touching small buttons and menus - and they’re still common in Windows. One oddity the 1.3-megapixel webcam (which has pretty good image quality but far too much contrast and is almost unusable in bright light) is where you’d expect it above the screen, in the bezel. The secondary keys like Shift and Enter are the size you expect and (apart from the backslash key which for some reason is over by the Windows key) in the layout you expect, so switching from other machines doesn’t mean retraining your fingers. ![]() The keyboard is excellent the unusually wide bezel leaves room for large keys with rounded corners that are well spaced in the chiclet-style keyboard and make it easy to type at normal speeds - we hardly ever hit the wrong key and the smooth action and unusually deep travel for a netbook mean your fingers don’t get tired. The screen is beautifully bright, vivid and colourful but the viewing angles aren’t quite wide enough - especially in portrait mode - and the glare from the glossy screen can be a real problem. Open the Inspiron Duo like a standard netbook and you get an excellent 10.1-inch display with a resolution that doesn’t make you feel you’ve gone back in time: 1366 x 768 means you can easily have two Web pages side-by-side or you can enjoy a movie at decent resolution. Things start well, for both the netbook and tablet features. the way the finger touch resolution isn’t quite good enough to accurately tap fiddly Windows controls.clever rotating screen turning it into a stylish tablet. ![]() But we hate the battery life it’s a compromise too far for real portability. We love how light, portable and robust the Inspiron Duo feels - although that’s light and portable for a netbook or Windows tablet rather than standing comparison with the iPad (and the delightful design hides the fact that it’s actually a little on the heavy and thick side compared to some netbooks). The keyboard is one of the best we’ve used on any netbook and the combination of the dual core Atom N550 with enough memory and the Broadcom graphics accelerator with a high resolution screen makes this a high end netbook. We expected the in-place rotating screen to be a gimmick but it’s sturdy and easy to use. Of all the convertible tablet PCs we’ve seen over the years, the Inspiron Duo is the most stylish and the most fun. Contact Technical Support.If you need help with your software, then please use the Contact Technical Support link above to receive prompt assistance from our technical support team.Screen-flipping, keyboard-packing, rugged yet stylish with its rotating touchscreen, real keyboard and dual core Atom processor, the Inspiron Duo looks as if it ought to be the perfect combination of high-end netbook and tablet.
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