This or Dell Venue 8 with Office 2013?
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Go dell, Asus is packing some seriously bad junk-ware into their systems which caused major performance issues as well as broke the AppStore. I believe they have fixes for all that now but Dell offers a cleaner OS which will prevent down the line issues IMHO as well as save disk space.
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I like my Asus but that said. The specs of the Dell Venue 8 Pro are pretty close to the ASUS. Dell is a good company too. I would say probably which ever unit gives you the most for your money would be a good bet.
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I love this VivoTab. Asus warranty is much better than Dell's. Their service is very good and fast. I had to replace a video card in one of their laptops & they paid S/H both ways. Got the PC back within a week. No cost.
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I have a Dell Venue 8 with Windows 8.1 and the Dell Bluetooth keyboard. This mouse works just fine along with it.
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Dell Venue 8 and 11 Pro both uses Synaptic digitizer, and this pen is Wacom. So even though they are both active, they are not compatible.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPPY4m8iY0k This is a link to a Youtube video, made by Plugable, which shows the Venue 8 Pro operating through their docking station... Looks like it works well to me! I have just purchased the Venue and am awaiting the dock in the mail... Will update if I run across any issues...
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I received the Dell Venue 8 32GB tab a few days ago. The speaker is not "poor". It is very loud compared to some tablets (samsung .. I own three of them). And the sound is excellent when using headphones.
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The most important thing is that Office 2013 is included for free (not Office 365). Then the rest is kind of basic stuff that Windows 8.1 have, like Kindle, Netflix (only works in some countries), Microsoft programs like Skype, Onedrive, and some new additions like Health & Fitness, Food & Drink and Travel apps Basically, it has a full functioning Windows 8.1 OS (one of the first to have it) that comes with basic windows stuff and Office for free. The rest you can easily install, some from the app store (has limited stuff) and most from the web like you did in previous windows versions.
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Yes, it comes with a 30 day Microsoft Office Trial(OHT13M). I am not 100% sure it's the 2013 version because I bought the 2010 version and never used the trial offer. But everything Microsoft in the Dell laptop coming out of the box referenced the 2013 version, i.e. it anticipates you will install the 2013 version when you do ultimately enter the product code. That and the "13" in the code description above which can't be coincidental makes me believe that the trial offer runs the 2013 version.
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No Office, I use open office, which works just as good in my opinion. As for gaming and streaming at the same time, I have not noticed any slow down.
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Yeah, I am not sure either, but considering C2 appears to be a more recent version update not to mention, cheaper and also come with free office 2013, that made my choice easy to decide.
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IMO the 1000HE will fit your needs. Recognize that MS Office is not included, so you will have to compromise and use Star Office, unless you have the ability to add Office on your own. As long as you are using Word 2003 or earlier, Star Office is a viable solution.As to buyers remorse, so far the device has met and exceeded my expectations, considering its price-point compared to "competing" netbooks. While 9 hours of battery time seems like a far-fetched claim, I'm perfectly happy with the 7 hours or so I seem to be getting.My only criticism has been the sound quality from the speakers. Turning on the Dolby helps, but at best the audio is mediocre. IMO the 1000HE will fit your needs. Recognize that MS Office is not included, so you will have to compromise and use Star Office, unless you have the ability to add Office on your own. As long as you are using Word 2003 or earlier, Star Office is a viable solution.As to buyers remorse, so far the device has met and exceeded my expectations, considering its price-point compared to "competing" netbooks. While 9 hours of battery time seems like a far-fetched claim, I'm perfectly happy with the 7 hours or so I seem to be getting.My only criticism has been the... » Read More IMO the 1000HE will fit your needs. Recognize that MS Office is not included, so you will have to compromise and use Star Office, unless you have the ability to add Office on your own. As long as you are using Word 2003 or earlier, Star Office is a viable solution.As to buyers remorse, so far the device has met and exceeded my expectations, considering its price-point compared to "competing" netbooks. While 9 hours of battery time seems like a far-fetched claim, I'm perfectly happy with the 7 hours or so I seem to be getting.My only criticism has been the sound quality from the speakers. Turning on the Dolby helps, but at best the audio is mediocre. « Show Less
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If you install the Intel video driver from the Dell Venue 8 Pro, the duplicate screen setting works. I can't give you detailed instructions, since I haven't done it, but it was covered thoroughly in one of the Encore threads in the Toshiba forum of tabletpcreview.com. [Update: it's reported that the needed driver can be downloaded from the toshiba.com support site.]
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This stylus only works with Wacom digitizers. The Dell Venue 8 Pro has a Synaptics Active digitizer, and therefore this stylus (Wacom Bamboo Feel) does NOT work with the Dell Venue 8 Pro. Just for the sake of completeness, there are Active (like the Wacom on MS Surface, Samsung Note etc. and the Synpatics on the Dell Venue 8 Pro) and Capacitative (like the iPad) digitizers. Capacitative and Wacom active digitizers do not use batteries. The Synaptics Active digitizer and the N-trig Active digitizer both require a AAAA battery inside the stylus to function. In my opinion, the Synaptics and the N-trig are both greatly inferior to the Wacom active digitizer. If the stylus is important to you, use a Wacom device.
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Yes, you can use it with a Dell Venue 8 Pro since the Venue 8 pro runs full x86 Windows 8. You will need to buy a Micro-USB 2.0 On-The-Go (OTG) Adapter to make it work. As Dec stated, the Venue 8 Pro will NOT charge when used like this, and since the Venue 8 Pro's USB port is only USB 2.0, you would only get USB 2.0 speeds out of the dock. The Displaylink stuff itself works well even over USB 2.0 so driving a 1920x1080p monitor shouldn't be an issue.
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Windows 8 in this Dell Venue 8 is touch screen so van be used without a mouse.
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connected this mouse to my dell venue 8 pro-could not connect another mouse-also connected a keyboard to the tablet
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Hi Christine, this laptop works well with MS Office 2013 and Internet browsing is very good for navigation I always prefer to use Mozilla Firefox. The touch screen also works well, and its battery takes up to 6 hours with the load; is also important to mention that it is quite light.Good luck.
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I tested it works with with venue 8 pro very wellI think 7 pro will do well