Dell unveils Latitude 10 “Essentials” tablet under $500 (just barely)

Dell unveils Latitude 10 “Essentials” tablet under $500 (just barely):

The Latitude 10 Essentials, on its optional add-on dock.

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At CES today, Dell unveiled another entry in its Windows 8 tablet line aimed at the small business and education markets. The Latitude 10 Essentials tablet is in essence a stripped-down version of the Intel Atom-based Latitude 10 tablet Dell announced in October. It's designed with one thing in mind: shipping an Intel-based "full featured, enterprise ready" tablet for under $500. It barely grazes that bar, at least in its lowest-priced configuration before adding a dock, a keyboard, and taxes.
Like its slightly more expensive doppelgänger, the 1.43-pound Latitude 10 Essentials has a magnesium alloy case and an iPad-like 10.1-inch Gorilla Glass touch-sensitive display. It's similarly equipped with a 1.8GHz Atom Z2760 "Clover Trail" processor and two gigabytes of RAM. But shaving $100 off the Latitude 10's price apparently required shedding a few things that some people might view as essential—such as a swappable battery. The Essentials tablet also lacks support for the optional active Wacom stylus, hardware-based Trusted Platform Module crypto, and AT&T mobile broadband support.
Latitude 10 Essentials comes with either a 32GB or 64GB solid-state drive, and it sports a combined audio jack, a single USB slot, and a full-size SD storage card slot. The device can also be plugged into a dock (if you add one) for access to four more USB ports, an audio jack, plus Ethernet and an HDMI port.

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