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Dell has taken the wraps off two new tablets in its resurrected Venue range, the Venue 8 Pro and Venue 11 Pro running Windows 8.1. The Venue 8 Pro puts Windows 8.1 on an 8-inch HD IPS touchscreen with an optional digitizer pen and the chance to add integrated LTE, with Intel Atom Baytrail under the hood. As for the Venue 11 Pro, that steps up to a Full HD 11-inch display and a detachable keyboard for easier text entry, with the same Active Stylus option. Venue 8 Pro The Venue 11 Pro can also be specified with more powerful processors, up to Intel’s Core i3 and i5 Haswell chips in fact, alongside the more frugal Baytrail option. Two keyboard options are available: the Dell Slim Keyboard, which keeps bulk down and acts as a screen protector when not in use, and the Dell Mobile Keyboard, with an integrated battery and full-sized layout for avid typists. There’s also a Tablet Display Dock for the Venue 11 Pro, which has two display outputs for hooking up external screens, and USB 3....

Microsoft has announced new lineup of accessories to accompany the new Surfaces. The new Touch Cover 2 and Type Cover 2 are thinner, more rigid and with backlit keys. It Touch Cover 2 now has 1092 sensors compared to just 82 in the first Touch Cover and a proximity sensor for automatic backlighting is available on both. The new Touch and Type Covers 2 will be available in cyan, purple, magenta, and black. There is also the new Power Cover that is just like the Type Cover 2, but comes with extra battery behind the keys. It will supposedly give you 2.5 times more power on your Surface 2 slate. It will cost $199.99 and will launch in early 2014. Microsoft is also offering car chargers, wireless adapters for the covers, and even a new Arc Touch Mouse that now connects through Bluetooth and without a receiver that usually occupies an USB slot. Finally, there is the Surface Remix project, an attachable cover that targets musicians. You can learn more about it right here . Source - G...

Microsoft has just announced its second generation Surface tablets – the Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro. Both slates are thinner, faster and lighter, with better displays, USB 3.0-enabled, and powered by the latest 8.1 version of Windows 8 RT and Windows 8 Pro. As expected Microsoft is also launching a new lineup of Surface accessories including a new Type Cover with backlit keys. Microsoft Surface 2 The new Surface 2 slate is powered by NVIDIA’s latest Tegra 4 chipset with a quad-core 1.7GHz Cortex-A15 processor, GeForce 72-core GPU and 2GB of RAM. The display also got a major upgrade: it’s now a 10.6″ ClearType 1080p display with 5-point multi-touch support. According to Microsoft the Surface 2 is up to 4x faster than the original Surface slate, offers 25% more battery life (10 hours of video playback, 7-15 days on stand-by), and features a 5x better camera and 2x faster bus and Wi-Fi speeds. The rest of the Surface 2 specs include Wi-Fi a/b/g/n support, Bluetooth 4.0, an...