Specs for Dell's Windows 8 Clover Trail Tablet Leaked
What's Dell got in the works for Windows 8?
Microsoft's Windows 8 is scheduled for launch later this year and around the same time, we can expect manufacturers to start churning out Windows 8 tablets. Many manufacturers are happy to confirm or announce that they're working on Windows 8 tablets, but we don't know a whole lot about those devices. Today, a new report points to apparent specs for an 10.8-inch tablet device from Dell.
Neowin posted the slide above, which was sent in by 'an awesome tipster.' If the information on the slide is genuine then we can expect a 10.8-inch tablet tablet with a 10.1-inch 1366x768 display, Intel's dual-core Clover Trail Atom CPU, 2 GB of LP DDR2 RAM, a 128 GB SSD, Windows 8, an 8-megapixel camera round the back and a 2-megapixel job up front, Bluetooth, WLAN, and a finger-print reader to keep the whole thing nice and secure. Interestingly enough, Neowin has also heard mention of a removable battery as well as two different choices when it comes to batteries. There's a larger battery that Neowin says should get 10-12 hours of battery life. The smaller battery will apparently get 6-8 hours.
No information on pricing or release just yet, so we have no idea if this tablet is coming at the tail-end of 2012 (last we heard the first Clover Trail Windows 8 tablets would be arriving in November), or early 2013. We'll keep you posted.

also if it is an x86 system then it really isn't anything new. Remember the old tablet/laptops that ran windows XP or vista?
it seems that they took that concept and just used the insides of a netbook
My reasoning for this is the specs and the power consumption, it seems very close to that of a netbook
only difference is that tablet will probably cost a lot more than $300
I would never pay the "iPad price" for a tablet when you can get a soup'd-up laptop for the same price. I expect more out of a device priced that high then to browse the Internet and check Email.
Step 1, buy netbook for $290 http://www.amazon.com/HP-Mini-210-4150NR-10-1-Inch-Charcoal/dp/B0072N4TNW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337973003&sr=8-1 or $270 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230359
Step 2, Add an extra GB of RAM
Step 3, remove the top case along with the keyboard and touchpad (route the power button somewhere on the side of the case)
Step 4, remove the LCD screen and it's plastic boarder
Step 5, mount the LCD screen along with the boarder where the top case that housed the keyboard and touchpad used to be
Step 6, find a digitizer that is the same size as the screen (they sell USB ones on ebay) and mount it onto the screen http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how-to/gadgets/4339778
Step 7, Install windows 8
Step 8, enjoy your windows 8 tablet
I'm just saying, that tablet is pretty much a netbook with a touch screen and no keyboard or touchpad but with 2-3 times the price tag
Welcome to technology, you must be new here
Tablets are one step below, or equal to, netbooks except that they add touch screens, while loosing the keys and mouse capability (unless docked). You pay extra because of the smaller form factor, the touch screen (generally ips, while netbooks tend to be TN... and that is the bulk of the price difference), the 'specialty' low power parts to get a little extra time out of it, and the trendyness tax of having a 'tablet'.
Also, Win8 works pretty awesome on my 2 year old netbooks that have 1 and 2GB of ram... so perhaps you are doing something wrong. These are low end devices, they are meant for web browsing, office, and other light workloads. They are not supermen multi-tasking giants, they are simple, potentially useful devices, and as that they are great. The perfect compliment to a desktop... but hardly a desktop replacement.
All that being said, this looks like a great tablet! This (or an AMD version with a little better GPU) is exactly what I am looking for. A little extra Ram would be nice, but it looks solid to me
Good joke!
These are all the poor kids, who have no money for Apple's iCrap!
PS if you take apart a netbook, you will see that it does not take much space, most of the space is empty space because thickness is added to handle the battery, if they move to the kind of battery commonly used with tablets, and added a very thin copper heat spreader for the CPU, they can easily take a current netbook and put it in a half inch thick case
PS intel atom CPU's can be passibely cooled if you use a heat spreader (many dell netbooks are passively cooled
also a IPS display is not very expensive compared to a TN panel, there is usually about a $20 price premium for the IPS panel (which can be offset by the reduced production cost from not having to add a heyboard or touchpad)
A digitizer is usually around $30-40
if anything, turning a netbook into a tablet and adding a IPS display and touch screen will probably bring the retail price from around $270 to about $300-320
the tablet listed in this article is essentially a netbook without a keyboard or touchpad
PS a atom based system can be made much thinner than an ultrabook or a macbook air since they are using CPU's with TDP's of around 2-3 watts instead of 20-30 watt CPU's
PS, I am not new here, profile: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/profile-141639.htm
Also not all tablets use IPS displays
And since when are fingerprint scanners synonymous with security? Those things are laughably easy to fool. A strong password is much more secure.
Don't mind me, I'm just messing with ya.
But what you have to admit that what you said was kinda silly. A netbook with a touch screen generally starts at $4-500, so it is entirely understandable that a shiny new tablet (remember what we learned from apple; trendy means profit) would also start in this range. And these will be much more capable than some silly ARM based products, because they can run x86 code... all be it slowly. I never cease to be amazed as what I have gotten my old netbooks to do... if given the time to do it. They are not quick, but they can do anything slowly, and the new Atoms are nothing to snuff at (except in the GPU department).
Also, netbooks have those air pockets so that the parts (HDD, north bridge, etc.) can breathe; it is not all just for the sake of the battery housing or CPU (remember the old Atoms had a wonderfully low TDP, but the NB took much more power). You start slimming down and then you have to use better heat spreaders, better paste, an SSD, low voltage ram, more durable case/screen materials, flat batteries instead of AA or AAA style rechargeables... it really does add up. The CPU may be the same as a netbook... but aside from that they are different monsters, and so long as they are 'new' they will be more expensive than they ought to be.
And no, Netbooks are not mean to have 25 tabs open. I may run 25-50+ tabs on my desktop, but to think that my netbook could handle something like that is dumb.
PS for some reason netbooks do not handle workstation workloads properly. I tried running maya 3d 2011, and photoshop cs5 at the same time, (it ran but insanely slow (not enough RAM)
then adobe aftereffects would crash if you tried to render any video, and Davinci resolve crashed at launch so i guess I wont be running those on a tablet
was ultimately hoping to pull up an entire workflow on a dell inspiron mini which is maya 3d, photoshop, adobe aftereffects, and davinci resolve all at the same time and record a video to post on youtube
Probably because toms doesn't have much to write and I'm so bored I'm even clicking on pages that totally don't interest me!