okie, got my Venue 8 Pro. First looks
- Build quality feels better than the Acer W4... it's the ridges.. it makes it feel cooler
- Touchscreen feels crummy, will install the driver once Office finishes installing.
- No USB OTG Cable.. cheap Dell!

Toshiba Encore is coming to Malaysia.

http://www.facebook.com/toshibapcmy/posts/763968133617489

Can comment the difference among w4 and Dell venue 8 pro!

wait, wait. Need time to use properly first, feels the same so far.. I think the Dell feels lighter though.

yup, Dell Venue 8 pro is lighter...........but only single channel RAM, no hdmi

not that much lighter lar, not like the w4 is a brick or anything. What's the difference using single channelram?

Venue 8 is less slippery and less likely to slip out of your hands!

Just found out that Bitlocker is ENABLED on the C drive on the Dell Venue 8 Pro, that might be what's been screwing up the write speeds on the thing, gonna disable it and check again.

mind to run crystal mark and share the result?

Yeah, will run again once it finishes decrypting.

Here's the previous test with Bitlocker on.



Here's the test once Bitlocker was turned off.



I wonder why did Dell choose to turn it on in the first place? On the net people say Bitlocker is now on by default, but that isn't true since.. my Acer W4 doesn't have Bitlocker on... I think.

Go to uefi and activate hs200, the result above is not satisfy

No idea what you're talking about, so you're gonna have to give me a little more help than that I poke through the BIOS I don't see anything that says HS200

after disabled the bitlocker, my speed is 80MBps read, 44 MBps write.

Close enough, now we just need to see what is the HS200 thing StupidGuy wants me to toggle and see if that makes any difference.

oh and i utilized 85% of the disk already.

i upgraded to 8.1 Pro, although that doesnt make any difference. installed full office pro 2013 with Visio and Project. there goes all my storage.

im waiting for my OTG cable, once its here. im going to format this Venue to clear out the recovery partition.

The latest UEFI A04 version has remove hs200 option, what your uefi version now!

My BIOS Version is A01... hmmm.. update BIOS... dangerous..

BIOS v A01 and A03 with HS200 support, A04 disable this setting

To Increase eMMC speed to HS200 (including the microSD fix in this as optional)
1) Swipe in from the right for the charms bar
2) Select Settings
3) Change PC Settings
4) Select Update & Recovery
5) Select Recovery (3rd option on the far left)
6) Under Advanced Startup press the button that says restart now
7) Wait for tablet to reboot
8) At blue screen Select 2nd Option, Troubleshoot
9) Select advanced options
10) Select UEFI Firmware Settings
11) Select restart (shows "restart to change UEFI firmware settings)
12) You're in a weird BIOS mode now, begin by pressing the Esc button at the top right
13) Choose Advanced (2nd option)
14) Choose LPSS & SCC Configuration
15) Change SCC emmC 4.5 HS200 Support to 'Enabled'
16) Change SCC eMMC 4.5 DDR50 Support to 'Disabled'
**NOTE** if you want to increase your micro SD speeds at this point
**16.1) Change DDR50 Support for SDCard to 'Enabled'
**16.2) Change SDR25 Support for SDCard to 'Disabled'
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17) Hit Esc at the top right corner twice (you should be at the main menu)
18) Select Save & Exit (Last Option)
19) Select Save Changes & Exit (First Option)
20) It asks you to confirm you want to save and exit, select yes and the tablet will reboot

Oh snap, increase on board mmc AND sd card speed? Looks like have to take the risk then!