Dell Venue 11 Pro with Core M: Tablet Windows 8.1

With 4.5W TDP Intel Core M, the hardware manufacturers can achieve tablet with desktop operating systems with dissipation absolutely passive. And it is the new Venue Pro 11 that will reach the market shortly. Dell has just officially announced the new Venue Pro 11 7000, passing from the old to the latest Intel Atom Core M. These are part of the new line-up of CPU architecture Broadwell to 14 nanometers with a TDP declared equal to 4.5W.

This value allows the implementation of systems, ultra-thin laptops and absolutely devoid of any active cooling system.

Thanks to 14nm, Core M allows performance aligned with the Intel Core i5 based on Haswell and consumption lower than previous Atom architectures. The specifications of the new processors from Intel provide a form factor similar to that of the tablet iOS and Android, but at the same time superior performance, both in terms of CPU than on the GPU (this one Intel Graphic HD5300).

Dell Venue 11 Pro 7000 uses an Intel Core M 5Y10a, slightly less powerful than the version that we used in our tests. Inside are two cores Broadwell 800MHz each, can reach 2GHz with Turbo Boost technology and contains 4MB of L3 cache. Aesthetically, we find no differences with the old model of the US tablet, with a thickness of about 10mm and a weight of 700g, but the new Venue Pro 11 uses a passive cooling system, which is fanless.

The other features of the tablet are mirrored to the previous generation, with LCD IPS Full HD 10.8-inch with active digitizer and glass Gorilla Glass. The user can choose several versions of the device, between 4 or 8 GB of RAM and denominations of 64, 128 or 256 GB hard drive built in, with the option to use Windows 8 or Windows 8 Pro. The changes to the hardware platform, increases the operation time to 10 hours, which can be virtually doubled with the Mobile Keyboard.