‘Dell is back with an ultra-thin tablet – with Intel inside’

AndroidCentral reviews some Dell Android tablet, and concludes:

There’s a lot to like in the Dell Venue 8 7840 tablet. The name is not one of those things. The display, however, most definitely is. Resolution quirks aside, Dell’s got a gorgeous panel in this tablet. And the Intel Atom processor seems like it’s pushing everything just as you’d expect a high-spec’d tablet to do. Battery life is pretty much on par with what we’d expect. And while on-board storage is close to shameful, Dell makes up for it with allowing for a massive amount of removable storage.

I’m not interested in the tablet itself, but in its processor. I find it remarkable that Intel has reached a point where it can power mobile devices with comparable performance and battery life… But with x86-64, not ARM. Intel isn’t new to mobile, of course – I have countless Xscale-powered PDAs – but that was ARM, not x86(-64).

We’re reaching a point where we have a standard architecture running from small phones all the way up to supercomputers. Remarkable.

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