Dell Venue 11

So my school is giving all of its students a dell venue 11 and I wanted to know if there where any things that i should look into for a windows 8.1 tablet like recommended cases or some cool software and stuff.

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Specs for the tablet

some laptop i5 (also used for the onboard graphics)

60 gb ssd

64-bit win 8.1

We have full access, we can bring it back and forth from school, over weekends, even over then summer until we finish our time there.

I think he meant, is it full windows 8.1 or windows 8.1 RT which if it is a Dell Venue 11 Pro I do believe it is the Full 8.1 Experience and not the RT horsepile. I do own a Dell Venue 8 Pro and I love this tablet. But to answer your question. If I were you I would invest into 4 things.

A Keyboard Dock - Pretty much Self Explanatory.

The Stylus - (this is probably going to be your new best friend)

Miracast adapter - so you can wirelessly connect your tablets to monitors and TV's

An 64 GB or 128 GB SD card to expand your storage a bit. That way you can transfer your personal documents to another mobile device like a phone or Android device if you already own one.

Thanks for the advice

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It also seems like I didn't involve enough about the tablet, it is full 8.1 

A word of advice is to make sure you download the A02 firmware update for the stylus if you plan to use it. I am not sure if there was revisions of the stylus itself but mine was an A00 revision.

I have a review of this coming up. the slim keyboard is a turd, don't get that one. 

I've seen one that keeps the tablet really sturdy on a keyboard dock it really did emulate the feel of a laptop. I don't remember the name of if but if my memory serves me right it was a bit pricy. You can see it in the first 30 seconds of this video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnwLTLA3iM0

I'll certainly try to keep that in mind, thank you ;D

Haha, thanks for the heads up

I talked to our IT head, he said that we get the admin account. :P

Omg help... it's started... the wave of people who think they know how to do stuff but don't actually know are all breaking all the things. On Monday some kid went into the BIOS and screwed up the boot order, also disabling windows boot manager. Another kid tried to run Linux of a flash drive but messed up the partitioning and whipped the tablet... omg help guys, this is crazy...

I came so close to buying a Venue, decided to save my money for a Surface 3.

Please be soon... please be soon... please be soon!!! 

If it was money I would do the same ;P

Is the Venue a turd? Be honest, dont gimmie no bull shit

I have seen this coming...

Sorry for the late response. In all honesty it isn't bad. Like I said, I would go with the surface over the venue but its not bad at all. Runs all the stuff I need it too like photoshop, skype, ext. (except for game but that's not its purpose).

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 Here is something that I made entirely on the venue w/ photoshop

(None of the art in the image is mine I just pasted it all together w/ my name) 

there's nothing really wrong with the venue, if you had money to blow then the Surface would of been the better option cause it gets constant driver updates and it gets them first compared to other Windows-Based Tablets. but if you were on the budget the Dell Venue 11 Pro is just fine. it does everything and alittle bit more cause at least you can replace some components (like the Wifi-Card, the battery and the mSATA SSD) in the tablet unlike the surface.

Do the student specials on the surface pro 3. Had some students at the university I helped and they saved about $220 off the purchase of the i5/128 w/keyboard cover and simple neoprene carry case. Free office to boot (But that's through the university)

 

That discount is pretty crazy :P