From DailyTech: Dell's latest bid for some tablet market respect kicked off a little early the last couple weeks. Look at various sites who reported on the initial October product announcement, one major missing piece of info was exactly when Dell's new 8-inch budget Venue 8 tablet was supposed to be shipping to U.S. holiday shoppers.
But apparently Newegg.com has been selling the new budget tablet, which runs Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android operating system, all month. The first customer review is from 11/1/2013, so it appears that Newegg.com may have shipped to customers as much as three weeks early. The tablet is currently listed as in stock?
That $180 buys you a WXGA 1200x800 pixel screen. While not as good as the 1920x1080 (1080p) panel found in the refreshed Nexus 7 (produced by ASUSTEK Computer Inc. (TPE:2357)), it's $50 USD cheaper ($180 USD versus $230 USD for the 16 GB variant of each)), and moreover it trades blows with the Nexus 7 in terms of processing power.
The Dell Venue 8 features a dual-core 2.0 GHz Intel Z2580 Atom Processor (32 nm, Clover Trail), with an onboard PowerVR SGX 544MP2 GPU from Imagination Technologies Group plc (LON:IMG). Versus the Qualcomm, Inc. (QCOM) APQ8064 a Snapdragon S4 chip with Krait CPU cores and an Adreno 320 GPU, the Intel-based design generally wins in CPU-intensive tasks, but fall behind in GPU extensive tasks (like 3D gaming). The Intel-equipped Dell Venue 8 gets roughly 7.5 hours under moderate use (on a 1550 mWh battery) versus roughly 8.5 hours for the Nexus 7 (on a 1,500 mWh battery).
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