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Strangely, Dell doesn't sell such a cover but there is a docking stand for desktop use that adds four USB ports, ethernet, and a full size HDMI port into which you could plug a desktop keyboard and mouse.
The Latitude 10 should last a while. It's built on a magnesium alloy frame, the screen is Gorilla Glass and the case is made from a pleasingly grippy material.
The 10.1-inch, 1366-pixel by 768-pixel 10-point multi-touch display lacks the wow factor of the pretty, 2048x1536 pixel panel on the latest iPad. It's just a workmanlike display and the first thing I would spruce up on the next series of Dell tablets.
But arrayed around the Latitude 10 is all the connection stuff you don't get with an iPad, such as a full-sized USB 2.0 port that should be able to handle any USB gadget that has a Windows driver, from keyboards to USB hard drives.
There's a mini HDMI port for pushing presentations out on to a big screen and the 64GB of memory can be augmented in a snap via the full-size SD card slot.
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The flush fitting, 30-watt-hour two-cell battery can be swapped for an optional, bulkier four-cell unit serving up 60-watt hours.
We got about 8.5 hours out of the two-cell battery running continuous video with the screen at full brightness and all radios on.
There's a meaty, 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, with LED flash that can shoot 1080p HD video and a 720p front-facing camera.
How does the Intel silicon Dell stack up against the Microsoft Surface RT and its Arm-based innards?
I found the Dell quite a bit quicker than the Surface RT in real-world performance.
Application load times, from a fresh power start, where I pitted Windows RT code apps downloaded from the Microsoft Store against their Windows 8 counterparts from the same store, saw the Dell beat the Surface RT every time.
The Surface RT would take over six seconds to load Microsoft Word whereas the Latitude 10 would do it in less than three seconds.
Loading the Pinball FX2 game took 28 seconds on the RT and 24 seconds on the Dell; ditto the Jetpack Joyride game, which loaded in 27 seconds on the Surface and 22 seconds on the Dell.
When it comes to getting down to business, the Latitude 10's target audience, the Dell machine has it all over the Surface in terms of enterprise grade security, compatibility with the mass of Windows software and probably ruggedness, although time will tell on that score.
Unfortunately, all the business-class stuff means a biz-class sticker price. The Latitude 10 begins at $899. Add in $125 for 3G cellular connectivity, another couple of hundred for Microsoft Office, another $200 for the dock and more again for a keyboard case and you are well over a grand.