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Eee Pad Transformer - Tablet/Netbook super device

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I laughed when apple introduced the ipad and the bt keyboard

I laughed when they first showed off this at ces

I laughed when i decided to buy this after seeing a bunch of videos and realizing how practical having a keyboard on demand would be

p.s you can plug in a wireless mouse in the us ports and it just works
 
As much as I'm hyped for this, the attachment...band..connector thing isn't very aesthetically pleasing. Still, this is pretty much what I've been waiting for.
 
Copernicus said:
I laughed when apple introduced the ipad and the bt keyboard

I laughed when they first showed off this at ces

I laughed when i decided to buy this after seeing a bunch of videos and realizing how practical having a keyboard on demand would be

p.s you can plug in a wireless mouse in the us ports and it just works
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why would you need a mouse on a touch screen?
 
punkypine said:
bigger than the keyboard to me is that it has god damn USB ports. The fact that most tablets don't have USB ports just seems stupid to me...
"hey here's a 100 meg video, throw it on your tablet"
"okay, let me run home and plug it into my computer"
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Related: Connecting a USB HDD to the Transformer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDCAM-qYB40
 
Can't wait for this to hit , it was this or the acer a500 for my older sister. We were going to grab one so she has something to keep the kids entertained. the phones are just to small for that.

$400 was a great price for it I believe
 
It is showing up on any online stores yet? I keep checking newegg, buy.com, etc. because I just paid off my Bill Me Later and feel like plunging into debt again.
 
sangreal said:
My opinion as a xoom owner: wait for something without a Tegra 2.
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Why wait. Its still better than Windows on a Atom platform with the intel integrated graphic.

You have to go to Atom/Ion to get something that runs multimedia better.
 
tino said:
Why wait. Its still better than Windows on a Atom platform with the intel integrated graphic.

You have to go to Atom/Ion to get something that runs multimedia better.
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supposedly the tegra3 is going to come out in August (even though it probably won't make the release date).
 
tino said:
Why wait. Its still better than Windows on a Atom platform with the intel integrated graphic.

You have to go to Atom/Ion to get something that runs multimedia better.
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The acer iconia w500 tablet uses a c-50 which is a dual core bobcat with a 6250 gpu. Its actually pretty good for running video and games from like 2009 and before
 
bdizzle said:
supposedly the tegra3 is going to come out in August (even though it probably won't make the release date).
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From what I understand Nvidia is going to ship them to partners in august which means we wont see products until close to the holidays if not early 2012
 
knitoe said:
The Asus EP121 is the "super device". This is just another media tablet device the comes with keyboard accessory.
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I really want to try out the EP121 but I have yet to see a demo unit in a B&M store. Big bummer

The Transformer does look incredible though. I would buy it over iPad 2 without hesitation.
 
Marty Chinn said:
Would the hdd support allow me to copy files from an sd card instead in the transformer to the hdd?
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Yes, you can move files anywhere between the three storage.
 
Vic said:
Yes, you can move files anywhere between the three storage.
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That just about sells it for me. Still gotta wait to hear what comes out of Google I/O and WWDC first. However knowing I can use it to offload photos from my dslr while on a trip makes it pretty compelling.
 
If the USB ports work for a mouse, is it possible to just get a good kb+m (even BT) with some kind of mount for a cheaper solution than the dock?
 
Router said:
USB Storage support? More interested now.
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Yes. This is where Android is kicking Apple in the seeds.... file management. It's always been about file management and now we have a machine that uses micro SD and a USB drive to move files around as the user wishes. +1 for consumers.

Chairhome said:
If the USB ports work for a mouse, is it possible to just get a good kb+m (even BT) with some kind of mount for a cheaper solution than the dock?
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Probably. Don't see why you couldn't. Then again the form factor of the dock is just that sexy IMO.
 
Chairhome said:
If the USB ports work for a mouse, is it possible to just get a good kb+m (even BT) with some kind of mount for a cheaper solution than the dock?
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One of the big features of the dock is that it has a secondary battery that charges the primary when connected. That's a pretty compelling feature and goes a while to justifying the cost of the dock.
 
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go nuts
 
I have one of those eeePC touchscreen netbooks. It's the shit. But extremely underpowered. I've been looking for a replacement. This seems nice but daddy wants windows and grown folk programs. I run a variety of engineering programs like pSpice and Roborealm on my shit. Seeing Android n' shit on all these tablets is starting to dash my hopes that i'll see them move forward with the touch netbook type of device.
 
BattleMonkey said:
It's more of an issue with Honeycomb most likely
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No, Tegra 2 doesn't look great against the A5 by any means. Performance relative to the Samsung Orion is less certain but also looking poor given most Orion/Exynos implementations come in at 1.2GHz. Nvidia haven't delivered on the potential of dual-core ARM at all. That said, it is still fast and most day-to-day issues with Android tablets come down to the OS, it seems.
 
punkypine said:
bigger than the keyboard to me is that it has god damn USB ports. The fact that most tablets don't have USB ports just seems stupid to me...
"hey here's a 100 meg video, throw it on your tablet"
"okay, let me run home and plug it into my computer"
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Seriously, it's called UNIVERSAL serial bus for a reason...

Would be nice if the keyboard part came with extra battery and a gpu though.

EDIT: I guess it does have a battery, that's really nice.
 
BattleMonkey said:
It's more of an issue with Honeycomb most likely
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No, looks like it's definitely a Tegra 2 problem. nVidia went cheap on the specs and performance suffered as a result:

Most surprising was that the iPad 2 was able to perform so significantly better than the Xoom in raw FP performance. The Xoom runs on the Tegra 2 SoC which is essentially a dual-core Cortex A9 platform like the iPad 2. Like NVIDIA, Apple has put its chip design team to work on improving performance on the lower-power version of the A9 configurations.

The doubling of memory bandwidth in the new iPad contributes to some of its FP advantage vs. the original iPad. But the only factor we can think of that would explain such a boost in LINPACK performance vs. both the original iPad and rival Tegra 2-based devices is that A5 must have full support for ARM's NEON vector extensions (the ARM equivalent of Intel's SSE instructions). The NEON extensions, along with the larger vector FPU (VFPU) to support them, are included by default in the A8 family, but are optional in the A9. NVIDIA's Tegra 2 opted for the smaller, lower-power, but weaker ARM FPU, while Apple seems to have included the beefier NEON VFPU in their implementation of the A9. Clearly this is the way to go, and we can expect other ARM SoC vendors to follow suit.
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http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/03/ipad-2-the-ars-review.ars/5
 
Linpack is entirely synthetic. It's not a real world benchmark for what performance you should expect.

The Atrix, G2X, and Playbook use Tegra 2 and aren't slow by any means. Honeycomb needs optimizing bad.
 
giga said:
Linpack is entirely synthetic. It's not a real world benchmark for what performance you should expect.

The Atrix, G2X, and Playbook use Tegra 2 and aren't slow by any means. Honeycomb needs optimizing bad.
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Nope. Playbook uses a Texas Instruments OMAP4 chip which looks to be the most impressive A9 SoC thus far (except when it comes to graphics)
 
giga said:
Linpack is entirely synthetic. It's not a real world benchmark for what performance you should expect.

The Atrix, G2X, and Playbook use Tegra 2 and aren't slow by any means. Honeycomb needs optimizing bad.
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The part bolded is the relevant peice. Unless you're saying nvidia did include neon in the tegra 2 for the tf101.
 
TouchMyBox said:
Nope. Playbook uses a Texas Instruments OMAP4 chip which looks to be the most impressive A9 SoC thus far (except when it comes to graphics)
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Oh drats, forgot about the omap. Point still stands for the non-honeycomb Tegra 2 devices!

bdizzle said:
The part bolded is the relevant peice. Unless you're saying nvidia did include neon in the tegra 2 for the tf101.
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The bolded part comes directly from the linpack benchmark section. What I'm saying is that it's basically a synthetic/mathematic benchmark that is helped greatly with neon. General (real world) speed won't be significantly affected in Honeycomb just because of that extra neon instruction set.

You have G2X don't you? I thought you found the speed satisfactory.
 
Where can you buy this? Amazon shows nothing.


Just did Google search. Best Buy had it up then promptly pulled it. Asus didnt want it up yet because there are supposedly going to do a marketing blitz.
 
Was so excited for this until I saw it was more tablet than netbook.

I wanted to use this for classes and lectures...you know...taking notes, Microsoft Office suite, etc....but I don't think Android supports that?
 
The Lamp said:
Was so excited for this until I saw it was more tablet than netbook.

I wanted to use this for classes and lectures...you know...taking notes, Microsoft Office suite, etc....but I don't think Android supports that?
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did google deprecate text input with honeycomb?


those motherfuckers.....
 
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