http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/ Engadget Comments for Hands-on with Dell's Latitude XT2 tablet http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/]]>Feb 10th 2009 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/
We have both older Toshiba tablets in use and a single Dell XT with the TFT screen. The Dell has a great screen, and is light to carry, but it is just simply under powered for even some basic functions like syncing to a large outlook (1.5 gig) account.

For the cost of the *cheapest* XT2, I ordered a Toshiba M750 w/ a 2.53GHz, 25 watt proc, 4 gigs of ram, 128 SSD, and a dual mode LCD touch screen. The XT2 does have a longer battery life, about a pound lighter and ability to have built-in Evdo internet, but it lacks a built in optical drive, microphone and webcam - all of which are big needs of the user in mind. Sorry Dell, you need to drop the price by a grand to be competitive.

For details on how we use tablets, we worked with MS to develop the first tablet platform, here's their whitepaper on our experience (doc) http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/c/5/6c548052-d605-4cfe-95ea-5055885f6377/OneNote_Benefits.doc]]>Feb 10th 2009 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/
How many other multi-touch capable, capacitive screen tablets do you see floating around in this form-factor? To my knowledge the Toshiba you have is a resistive and has the option of being outfitted with the Wacom capacitive setup but I am unaware of the price of conversion.

However I do agree that an integrated optical drive would have been most beneficial.]]>Feb 10th 2009 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/
honestly i'm pretty disappointed w/Dell's first tablet, XT. we have over 300 in our company and have had nothing but horrible horrible problems w/the SSDs performance and terribly written drivesr.

ntrig, yea. expect this error: ntrig could not detect driver.

you'll see that about once a week or so.

yup, i'd stick w/Lenovo or HP on a tablet. just my .02]]>Feb 10th 2009 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/
The Dell XT/XT2 is a business level tablet, which is meant to be compared to the HP 2710p/2730p, both are in the $2000 range.]]>Feb 10th 2009 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/
The new one are even uglier, a mirror surface touchpad is a brilliant idea.
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If you live in America I'd also urge you to speak to your politicians and demand that they stop funding and arming the Israelis.]]>Feb 10th 2009 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 11th 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/
Btw, i support what Israel is doing. Go live in a country that actually has to deal with constant terrorist attacks, and you would support it too. ]]>Feb 10th 2009 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Feb 10th 2009 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/
@Asuka: You're just being needlessly obtuse and it saddens me that anyone could be as heartless as you are. It's hardly trolling to do something positive to try and ease the suffering of innocents.

@Shyam D: Perhaps if you were lived in the occupied territories you would understand the need to do what you can to reclaim land that was stolen from you and fight against constant oppression and starvation. Israel doesn't suffer from "terrorist" attacks.
]]>Feb 11th 2009 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/Beautiful tablet, though. I love the XT form factor. It manages to make the tablet look not so fat.]]>Feb 11th 2009 4:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/10/hands-on-with-dells-latitude-xt2/
What bothers me is that the XT(2) has capacitive touch, which allows for softer interactions, but on the software side, the response is horrible which makes soft capactive touch seem as responsive as the resistive touch.
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