@Green Arrow
Firstly, discussing the 8" Bay Trail-T Windows slates,
---- GPS and HDMI-out, battery
Having better portability the 8-inch slates would more likely be using for outdoors and travel purpose, well then, the GPS and HDMI-out are more necessary, it is basic requirements for US $399 to buy this slate (64GB).
Toshiba Encore WT8 (64GB)/VT484 provides GPS and HDMI-out, the battery is 20Wh, claiming the battery life up to 14.1 hrs, or 10 hrs User scenario (65% Web / 10% Video Playback / 25% Standby), or 11 hrs by The JEITA Battery Run Time Measurement Method.
Seemingly Toshiba Encore WT8/Vt484 is slight heavier 90g than Lenovo MiiX II 8", that is actually with slightly larger battery as well as metal parts, better stuff.
must note, when 300 cycles of charging and discharging later the battery capacity will drop to less than an 80% of original, so, the runnable time will be shorter. Moreover, the battery is non-interchangeable (not user replaceable battery).
---- HFFS screen (Toshiba WT8 /VT484)
Advanced fringe field switching (AFFS), by Wikipedia,
Hydis introduced a high-transmittance evolution of the AFFS display, called HFFS (FFS+).
Hydis introduced AFFS+ with improved outdoor readability in 2007. AFFS panels are mostly utilized in the cockpits of latest commercial aircraft displays.
Known as fringe field switching (FFS) until 2003,[33] advanced fringe field switching is similar to IPS or S-IPS offering superior performance and color gamut with high luminosity. AFFS was developed by Hydis Technologies Co., Ltd, Korea (formally Hyundai Electronics, LCD Task Force).[34]
AFFS-applied notebook applications minimize color distortion while maintaining a wider viewing angle for a professional display. Color shift and deviation caused by light leakage is corrected by optimizing the white gamut which also enhances white/gray reproduction.
In 2004, Hydis Technologies Co., Ltd licensed AFFS to Japan's Hitachi Displays. Hitachi is using AFFS to manufacture high-end panels. In 2006, HYDIS licensed AFFS to Sanyo Epson Imaging Devices Corporation.
---- eMMC
Select a 64GB slate to be more appropriate (not a 32GB version), based running Windows x86 which is fully unlike a lightweight Android slate.
Bay Trail-T Atom is with eMMC 4.5 in the local storage (no SATA), sounds like eMMC 4.5 claiming Max Bandwidth 200MB/s, but in fact even if eMMC 4.5 Samsung 128GB is merely the write speed max 50MB/s (read max 150MB/s), while the 16GB the write speed is much slower. They are not the same speed, say in between the 4-chip and the 8-chip packaged, the slowest situation is with 1-chip (mono) packaged.
MBG4GC -- 4-chip packaged, MCG8GC -- 8-chip packaged, in eMMC 4.5 the 64GB is no 4-chip packaged.
(Although eMMC 5.0 claiming Max Bandwidth 400MB/s, but actually the write speed is still 50 - 60 MB/s just so little, above 32GB; Therein the 16GB is poor max 11MB/s (W) as well as so-called the eMMC Pro (5.0) the 16 GB is just merely 40MB/s (W). Also, access time is too slow in eMMC)
Contrast, during Aug 2012 the SoC iSSD (SATA uSSD) the Read/Write speed has went up to 450(R)/350(W) MB/s, and the access time is less than 0.5ms, supports NCQ, much faster than eMMC.
Unhappily, Bay Trail-T Atom does not sopport SATA and PCIe, incapable to get the storage performance higher.
Green Arrow :
I'm trying to decide which of these to get but I can't decide. I'm curious about the Dell Venue 8 as it has a perfect size factor but it doesn't have a keyboard, or I think it doesn't(Correct me if I'm wrong), and the Venue 11 seems like a better T100 from the reviews I've read.
I'm really curious about that Venue 8 though, is typing on it good or is their any Keyboard case option?