Dell Inspiron Duo is indifference times two

You may not refuse Dell some tough gee-whiz cred with the new Inspiron Duo.
In a world of commoditized portable it is nothing if not a unique product. Show it to your friends; It looks like a netbook, and you pop open the laptop-like clamshell and wait for the sad expression appears. Then comes the sucker punch: you rotate the screen horizontally within the frame and fasten laptop back close. TA-da, it's a freakin' tablet, bro! People are duly impressed. It is a neat cheating and at least a wise performance of engineering.But what is the Dell Inspiron Duo? Cut through the mystery and you want to find — sorry to burst your bubble — a Windows netbook with a rotating touchscreen.
And to ask what is it good for?
Well, we are still working on that one.
This is the problem with multi functional gadgets in General: they rarely do either of those things, they are designed to be very good. The duo is like a netbook at least passable. While it is heavier than the other 10-inch netbooks at up to half a pound, it is well designed and looks good, and screen, 1366 x 768 brightness is about average for the category. But performance is, unfortunately, poor around (a 1.5-GHz Atom does not get you very far), and two measly USB ports could be an upgrade.
As a tablet ticket prices the duo significantly worse. Here his three pounds of heft is too much for extended use, and clamshell design adds a disagreeable thickness to the time unit of measure that makes it difficult to keep. The screen is also suffering from the same poor viewing angle problems scuttled stripe 7. If you don't keep it dead on, the monitor is almost unreadable.
Of course, the biggest problem here is really not Dell's fault that Windows just seems excellent touchscreen devices, especially not on a small scale such as this. Use the Duo in Tablet mode for more than three minutes, and your skin begins to climb. You want to get something done quickly. You try to hit Control-C. You will find soon you reached again and again to a keyboard, there is not. Except, of course, it is. thank God for.
WIRED 320 GB hard disk is larger than my laptop. Flip the system works well, feels sturdy. Dell stage custom task launcher app loads automatically in Tablet mode, make Windows a little more useful as a slate. Duo Audio Station ($ 100 more) adds much better sound and a vertical docking system.
TIRE Boring slowly around; accustomed to a lot of waiting. The screen is hideous. Too heavy to regular, table-free use.