A Little Face-time with Dell's Awesome Netvertible

Looks very interesting. Glad to see some innovation!

ITS ATOM AGAIN. GODDAMMIT

Ah, but will it blend?

There's is no battery; it's powered by dreams. It's better than the iPad because iPad is only powered by magic.

... so? where is facetime...? how mutch i know facetime is openspurce... i wanted to see a facetime call between iPhone an Dell...

Stupid Atom.. I mean there's been alternatives like Nvidia Tegra since what, 2008? Much higher performance and "comparable" power usage makes ION or Tegra SO much better.

But this is still a cool netbook, and if it was running a ION or Tegra chipset, i'd get one (no point other than the screen that i can see, plus i have a netbook..)

After owning a HP Mini 220 and Archos 9 for a few weeks, ANY Atom device will really have to have an SSD to remove the slowest part of the machine. Seriously, the Archos 9 was saved by an SSD but let down for being naff and turning off at random times.

P.s. I hope th build quality on this Dell i s high

Thick and clumsy - no thanks :-)

Its an Atom, but other than that - my comments are the same as the other time. Innovative and potentially revolutionary if the display would detach in future revisions.

You know what would be really cool? if it not only swiveled but slid, so that you could use the keyboard too.

More Dell DRM made just for you.

Have another think coming?

as a fujitsu lifebook tablet user, i would appreciate a wacom pen as an additional form of using the said tablet. looks interesting though.

The next version of this better use Zacate...

wow! This looks like a pretty innovative device to me, very brilliant idea...

Well played, Dell!

So it'd just be like a giant cellphone?

I think it only swivels one way because of the cabling. You wouldn't want consumers spinning it round and round twisting the internal cabling. This would cause enough tension too break it. Any movable part or hinge will loosen up given enough time and use. Most decent netbook and laptop designs take this into account.

The Atom N550 looks very promising!
They only forgot to create an Atom processor which can disable the second core when not in use, or neither did they create turbo boost on these processors. Two technologies I should have seen on these cpu's.

The 2012 atom processor should blow everyone's mind, as it should be on par graphically speaking with core2duo laptops,only having Atom powerconsumption levels!
(I guess intel stated to improve the graphics processor, much like the Corei graphics, by letting the graphics chip use parts of the lcache!

Why do you need this Dell when you can just add a bluetooth keyboard to the iPad?

It looks very innovative but one thing concerns me more than battery life and thats the price range. Is this netbook going to land on the ipad related pricing or maybe on the more economic netbook price range?. Hope is on the second one because i want to awake and start living.

It's great to see innovative products, however I fear its attempt to be both a netbook and a tablet will have an outcome where it's not very good at either.
Safer bet to buy an excellent netbook or an excellent tablet not a mediocre hybrid....

Describing this netbook as "innovative" is like saying that removing one of your car's four wheels is an innovation.

The swivel display is "different", but innovation implies an improvement in a product category... this product is a few steps backwards.

There have been convertible notebook computers, in which the display pivots horizontally and folds flat for use with a stylus, for more than ten years. Over the past year similar convertibles have come out with touch-screen displays.

But in this case, Dell has made an existing design worse!

Notice that the display that flips vertically has it's own thick frame. This frame resides in another, outer thick frame. So in effect using this frame-within-a-frame Dell has reduced the possible screen size, and so it is not as large as the screens on competitors' touch-screen convertible notebooks of equal size & weight.

The second drawback is that the built-in Webcam is permanently located in the outer frame of the notebook. This means that the Webcam can only be used as a Webcam when the display is flipped into the "notebook" position. But when the display is flipped around into the "tablet" position, the Webcam is hidden inside the closed clamshell and is no longer facing the user. Again, on competitors' touch-screen convertible notebooks the Webcam is built into the same display frame that swivels around horizontally, so the Webcam can be used in either configuration.

This Dell product is poorly thought-out, and will only appeal to gimmick-prone purchasers... until they realize that "the emporor has no clothes". ;-)

I hate to see the glossy screen. It's for retards.

that video was poor(my new choice of wording for things that I dont like) couldnt see the screen much and all you hear are some dudes mumbling amongst some heee hheee hee haa hhaaa haaa

But magic can control dreams...

I'm just hoping they don't be idiots and charge $1000 for it because they think they can. Dell needs to charge what's reasonable (ie < $500), which they sometimes have a problem with.

It's an interesting concept for sure as it unifies two devices with limited usefulness into a single product. As long as the pricing isn't iPad + Dell mini, this could have some use.

Ill wait for a Fusion one next year.

"There's is no battery; it's powered by dreams. It's better than the iPad because iPad is only powered by magic."

Actually, the ipad is powered by a tiny furnace inside that burns money directly from your pocket.

This was precisely my thought the first time I saw it. Particularly the uber-thick screen bezel. Brought back the cringeworthy days of the first EeePC. >< And the mess with the webcam just seals the deal for me.

I'll be keeping a close eye out on this one just in case Dell decides to do a 180 on the design, but I'll probably just be going for a competitor at this point. There's undoubtedly going to be a plethora of convertible tablet netbooks with dual core Atom's or even the low power Core-i processors in the coming future. I just hope these retarded designers get off the capacitive touchscreen bandwagon. I rather have stylus support with half decent finger use rather than finger only use and no precision (Yeah, I know there's styluses out there for cap-screens but the precision is just not there. Almost impossible to do a fine tipped cap stylus. Like trying to draw with a pencil eraser.)

this design fails at rigidity and any real use over time... can you imagine how many snapped off broken displays dell will be getting back? hopefully the warranty is good LOL

IMO they failed in design... cause they could have come up with a cam action hinge to move to the other side of the netbook, and make something to slide and close the keyboard for example or little feet or stand offs etc... (that pop in and out)

seriously im a MFG and not even a "designer" and see from a mechanical point of view the fail LOL