I've got a 7140 with the battery keyboard, to be honest, can't think of any flaws, battery life is awesome, tablet on it's own, add the keyboard and you can fly to New York and back and still have power left. Perhaps the only downside is the screen is a little small for the resolution, so you may end up scaling.

I got my tablet of the Dell outlet for around £400 (256GB SSD + 8GB RAM) and the keyboard for £70 off Ebay.

mike

very interesting! think i prefer the atom one for battery life? my asus t100 lasts forever! well 8 hours plus!

You should be able to re-map the keys. I bought a US version for my 8" Dell but never bothered swapping them round in the end

totally worth it if you can get a keyboard cheap

Really tempting.

Make sure you read this first: http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/threads/trying-to-decide-surface-3-vs-dell-venue-11-pro-7130-or-7140.66167/

Overall I think it is a very good deal.

From my understanding the i5 uses a lot more battery than the i3. I've owned an i3 twice and loved them both times (just stopped using them as I would use my laptop).

The first one from mcs didn't charge on the usb port, so they sent out a charger that used the bottom port and clearly the cmos battery needed replacing but they couldn't care less.

I'm with an ipad mini at the moment but with the niggling feeling that one of these with 8gb ram and 256gb disk will suit me better...Yes I know I have a problem but after getting rid of my Toughbook CF-U1's at a £100 profit, I feel this may apeeze me for a few weeks.

I ended up with the flexible cover keyboard which didn't really work for me, was neither a cover/keyboard or stand.. loved the actual tablet though.

I've got a 7140 with the battery keyboard, to be honest, can't think of any flaws, battery life is awesome, tablet on it's own, add the keyboard and you can fly to New York and back and still have power left. Perhaps the only downside is the screen is a little small for the resolution, so you may end up scaling.

I got my tablet of the Dell outlet for around £400 (256GB SSD + 8GB RAM) and the keyboard for £70 off Ebay.

mike

Pretty sure I picked up my 7139 i5 from MCS for about £175 about 10 months ago.

just be careful about this model.
It is pretty easy to get overheating, it will lower down the CPU to 0.5Ghz which is dead slow.