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The Dell Inspiron Duo may have been a product ahead of its time. It’s a Windows 7 netbook with a dual core Intel Atom processor and a touchscreen display. You can tilt back the display and close the laptop lid to use the computer as a tablet.
While Windows 7 doesn’t offer the most finger-friendly user experience, there’s nothing stopping you from installing a pre-release build of Windows 8 on this little guy and using the new touch-friendly Metro user interface.
You can pick up a refurbished model of this discontinued computer for $400.
Here are some of the day’s best deals on mobile devices and accessories.
- Refurb Dell Inspiron Duo convertible Windows tablet/netbook for $400 – efxdigital (via eBay)
- HP Folio 13 ultrabook w/Core i5 for $700 – HP (coupon: NBDTSAVE50)
- Samsung Series 5 14″ ultrabook w/Core i5 for $750 – TigerDirect
- Refurb Acer Iconia Tab A200 Android tablet w/16GB for $270 – Acer (via eBay)
- Refurb Pandigital Novel 7″ Android tablet for $50 – 1SaleADay
- Refurb Apple iPod touch 8GB (4th gen) for $165 – concept electronics (via eBay)
- Refurb Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101 w/16GB for $280 – TigerDirect
- Crucial 128GB 2.5″ SATA III solid state disk for $100 – Buy.com
- Kingston 32GB USB flash drive for $20 – Buy.com
You can find more bargains in our daily deals section.
I agree with this article as I have a dell duo and I am really waiting for windows 8 to come out and fix all of the problems with using windows 7 on it. So I am not really using it too often, but when windows 8 comes out I will very happy and excited!
While the Dell Inspiron Duo looks tempting, I would shy away from it. Users have complained about its unreliability, slowness, and poor battery life. It also only has 2 USB 2.0 ports. In other words, yet another shoddy Dull, er, Dell product. As testament, Dell quickly EOL’d (end of life’d) this product shortly after its introduction.