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Might be cheaper/better to buy a Venue 11 Pro and upgrade that rather than spend that much on a MicroSD card. (the backs can be removed on the Venue 11 Pros, exposing a standard SATA3 based M.2 card)
As for the dell you mentioned. It looks very good, and I especially like the price and features... but the ram appears locked at 2gb and the processor is an Atom... I'm wanting an i5 or if the price comes down enough, an i7 so I wont have to worry about power. (If there is a place to change those, I didn't see it, but I admit I only took a quick look - search only showed their 2-in-1 with an i5 --- though I had to snicker at the "Free 32-inch TV with purchase!" offer )
Stumbled on this... yes it's pricey but it shoudl come down over the next few months:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/sandisk...dc3b&ksprof_id=14&ksaffcode=pg8189&ksdevice=c
Anyone have any experiance with it? or even know anyone who's used one?
Sandisk Extreme Plus if you're looking at 64Gb - if bigger, then well you have to compromise performance for speed.
The 32 and 64Gb EP's have great random I/O for micro SD cards (beating pretty much all comers), and great - again, for a micro SD card - sustained transfer rate that pretty much matches what's claimed (~80Mb/sec read, ~50Mb/sec write). But even this is nowhere near decent eMMC's, let alone SATA SSDs.
Now, go to many other brands, especially the more 'competitively priced' card - and then anything but completely sequential I/O can go down the crapper - down to single digits in many cases (that's worse than writing to an iPod Classic for random I/O) with popular low price SD's.
Pick higher storage density on the other hand - e.g. Sandisk's 128Gb Ultra - and you actually end up with the same problems as the above: Random I/O can be just as abysmal, which is a particular problem if you're not using it just as a scratch disk.
I don't use SD's as a viable substitute for not buying enough onboard storage for this very reason. However the Extreme Plus's do have a good home in my cameras (with the SD adapter) that I can then plug straight into my Surfaces for work in Lightroom.
Hmm, wonder if Dell discontinued the i5 based 7000 series 11 Pros. I can only find a vague reference to "call for pricing" with a quick look around.
The Core M based ones are still around but i'm not sure if that would qualify as powerful enough for you.
Unless you or somone you personally know owns one of these with an i5, I think it was a typo on the website. I did an ebay search and even there I only found _one_ 7000-series that didn't have an atom --- it was the M-series processor you mentioned before (which was going for ~$1000: which is $200 more than an i5 Surface Pro 3 on eBay). I did, however, find a LOT of 7000-series i5 "ultrabooks" that could be folded 'inside out' to act like a tablet, my guess is that's what you were thinking of.
Quite sure they existed, when I went and bought the 7140 that I have there was a choice between the 7139 w/ a i5 and a fan or the 7140 w/ the Core M and no fan. Same form factor and the extras (dock, both keyboards) work on both.
Plus I keep running into literature about the 713x series when i'm looking about how to do something. (I have yet to be able to get the thing booted from USB.. I also haven't tried that hard though)
Let me register a vote for the Samsung PRO series of microSD cards, again PRO (grey cards), not the Evo (orange card). The PRO cards are much faster than most other microsd cards on the market, rated for 90MB/s read 50MB/s write, they actually seem to write in the 70MB/s range with a capable hardware interface.
One of my SanDisk Ultra 64GB is getting flaky and hasn't even seen that much use. Need reliability so will stop using Made in China SanDisk and try South Korean Samsung next. Have had 100% reliability with Samsung DRAM products in workstations and servers.
What really pisses me off now is I watched a teardown of the SP3 on yourtube last night --- and it looks like the SSD is a standard "mini-PCI Card" type, which could be upgraded at any time very easily and relatively inexpensively --- except it's sheer hell to get to the Mobo because everything is glued together... (now to be fair, this WAS a CNET teardown, so it's entirely possible they're completely wrong, but it certaintly looked it it really was just a normal MPCI card)
I'll do a little more digging, though I question how good a "secondhand" one coudl be at this point if I even find it. I am very curious now though...