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Eee Pad Transformer - Tablet/Netbook super device

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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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Are you being serious?
 
Does anyone know if the browser (or a third party browser) can be run in a desktop mode - so no zooming, compatible with desktop Gmail and Google Docs?
 
Obsessed said:
Is he wrong, or was it stupid for him to expect it to be able to do that?

(Serious question, I don't know crap about this kind of tech)
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for expecting the official MS Office suite on Android? yea, he wasn't thinking.
 
I've been keeping an eye on this, honeycomb / battery / kb / good reviews re build quality / price have kept me interested. But Amazon UK says not until June 1 for fucks sake!
 
ahoyhoy said:
Been looking for an excuse to update my 1000HA.
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Heh, funny you should say that. I'm planning to get this to replace my own 1000HA :P

Gonna be weird using Android as a "desktop" OS, but I'm willing to give it a shot and I honestly use my Android phone more than I use my Windows PC these days anyway...
 
Pretty sure this thing would be a downgrade over a netbook in terms of productivity.... still pretty cool though!
 
edbrat said:
I've been keeping an eye on this, honeycomb / battery / kb / good reviews re build quality / price have kept me interested. But Amazon UK says not until June 1 for fucks sake!
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Yeah, the first UK shipment sold out almost immediately and Amazon aren't re-stocking until June (placeholder date, this was after they pushed it back from April 18th). If I recall the Asus UK twitter said your best bets are Carphone Warehouse, Currys/Dixons/PC World as they should be getting more stock in this week (both SKUs).
 
Zinga said:
Pretty sure this thing would be a downgrade over a netbook in terms of productivity.... still pretty cool though!
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Depends on what you're using it for, but yeah. There's a lot of kinds of software that just don't exist for Android as of now.
 
Obsessed said:
Is he wrong, or was it stupid for him to expect it to be able to do that?

(Serious question, I don't know crap about this kind of tech)
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depends on how you take the intitial question i guess

i figure he was asking "can it word processing/spreadsheetsl/etc like things", then yes it can through a couple of different aplications like Polaris that's built it, Google docs, Office to Go, etc. they are not as full fledged as Office on Windows though


it cannot however install the same Microsoft Office 2010 you have on your windows machine.

(though you could remote desktop in and use it there)
 
i've been wanting something to toss up in my kitchen for shopping lists, recipes, media center control, and this may be the best solution. hmmmm...
 
ahoyhoy said:
Wonder if someone could hack Win7 onto this thing...
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No, hahaha. This is an ARM machine. Win8 will have ARM support though, for future products like this. That will, of course, break most Windows application compatibility so I hardly see the point.
 
Stallion Free said:
Do you think Best Buys will have demo models up tomorrow? I have been dying to try it.
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I'm fairly sure they go on sale at Best Buy tomorrow, but I don't know if they'll have demo units. I hope so. I need to feel this thing in my hands.
 
Trent Strong said:
I'm starting to think the Eee pad is too long and heavy. Plus, this guy does a comparison between the Eee pad and the iPad 2, and it doesn't make the Eee look too good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujRcBmZSVWw

Guess I need to try it out for myself at Best Buy.
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I wish people doing these comparisons would do real world comparions instead of swipe swipe swipe "this one wins" yes we know we can swipe and pinch 80 mph.

Something like "jump into browser, get and email, look up video, switch back, load this, etc" like a routine of actual use.
 
Trent Strong said:
I'm starting to think the Eee pad is too long and heavy. Plus, this guy does a comparison between the Eee pad and the iPad 2, and it doesn't make the Eee look too good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujRcBmZSVWw

Guess I need to try it out for myself at Best Buy.
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Long is fine considering that movies will actually look decent on it unlike the competition. Only thing keeping me from this baby is Tegra 2. Come on Tegra 3!
 
Yoshiya said:
No, hahaha. This is an ARM machine. Win8 will have ARM support though, for future products like this. That will, of course, break most Windows application compatibility so I hardly see the point.
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VMWare will make a windows emulator for ARM and it will be the death of Microsoft.
 
TouchMyBox said:
Long is fine considering that movies will actually look decent on it unlike the competition. Only thing keeping me from this baby is Tegra 2. Come on Tegra 3!
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True. It has a movie and TV freindly aspect ratio.


Copernicus said:
I wish people doing these comparisons would do real world comparions instead of swipe swipe swipe "this one wins" yes we know we can swipe and pinch 80 mph.

Something like "jump into browser, get and email, look up video, switch back, load this, etc" like a routine of actual use.
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Yeah. The only real way to know is to do a comparison yourself. I'm hoping for demo units.
 
Trent Strong said:
True. It has a movie and TV freindly aspect ratio.




Yeah. The only real way to know is to do a comparison yourself. I'm hoping for demo units.
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The Eee Pad also has some Asus tweaks on it which will no doubt have some effect on the performance, a stock or custom ROM will probably help improve performance.
 
Ideally if I do pick one up, I would like to wipe it and install the latest version of Honeycomb from Google rather than the Asus tweaked version.
 
Stallion Free said:
Ideally if I do pick one up, I would like to wipe it and install the latest version of Honeycomb from Google rather than the Asus tweaked version.
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The general response to the Asus tweaks seems to have been positive. Stock OS might also screw up the dock connectivity.

Edit: Weird mistake left after sentence edit.
 
Yoshiya said:
The general response to the Asus tweaks seems to have been positive. Stock OS it might also screw up the dock connectivity.
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Yeah I love my EEE PC and it was so easy to wipe out XP and put Win 7 on it (or anything else if I had wanted) so that's why I was willing to wait to see what Asus did for tablets before buying one.
 
Copernicus said:
I wish people doing these comparisons would do real world comparions instead of swipe swipe swipe "this one wins" yes we know we can swipe and pinch 80 mph.

Something like "jump into browser, get and email, look up video, switch back, load this, etc" like a routine of actual use.
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This guy has a definite bias towards Ipad. I basically ignore any review where you can't even rate his review/video, maybe he should have disabled comments as well.
 
Since I know the 7 inch Acer Honeycomb tablet is coming, I will not consider any of these 10 inchers. But Asus has done a much better job in offering its own twist than other Android hardware makers.

Going to from the best version of 3.0 tablet to the worst, laziest mother fuckings excuse of an android tablet, here is my order:

Asus > Samsung > Toshiba > HTC > Acer > Motorola > Dell > Viewsonic
 
Trent Strong said:
I'm starting to think the Eee pad is too long and heavy. Plus, this guy does a comparison between the Eee pad and the iPad 2, and it doesn't make the Eee look too good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujRcBmZSVWw

Guess I need to try it out for myself at Best Buy.
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he keeps saying "as you can see, the Ipad is much faster". Yet it isn't faster in the video at all. WTF is he talking about?

Also, he does the screen rotate test. But because the Ipad is smaller, it rotates quicker. Meaning the screen will auto adjust faster. Where as the EEE pad is large, so it takes longer to make the rotation. The Ipad is faster in this respect, but not by as much as he makes it seem. When he rotated the Ipad in the last test similar to how he was rotating the EEE pad, it was slower.

This comment sums it up

What I noticed is that the "Sensitivity" of the IPad is higher then on other Tablets.

For Example: If you switch through fotos on an Ipad you just have to swipe a distance of 1-2mm and it switches the Foto. This makes the IPad seam very fast.

While on other Tablets you have to swipe a distance of 1-2cm to switch a foto.

This does not make the other Tables "feel" slower, while the acually arent.

Why do Manufactors dont notice such an important thing?
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I recently picked up a Nook Color, intending to root it with CM7. Hmmm...... return the Nook?

I have a Dell Inspiron Duo, which I would probably take over this Asus.
 
Copernicus said:
it cannot however install the same Microsoft Office 2010 you have on your windows machine.

(though you could remote desktop in and use it there)
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Has any review seriously examined how viable this is? I'd like to read some user reports (if there are any) on all the Honeycomb RDP/VNC apps and how well they work on the Eee Pad...
 
dejay said:
This - it almost doubles the battery life, plus the keyboard has extra ports and stuff.

My dad is trying to decide between a laptop and an iPad - this may be the answer.

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Marketing that makes me want a product less.

(still want)

Pity the screen doesn't dock in the vertical orientation.
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Charred Greyface said:
Has any review seriously examined how viable this is? I'd like to read some user reports (if there are any) on all the Honeycomb RDP/VNC apps and how well they work on the Eee Pad...
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As long as the client machine has keyboard and supports mouse, its basically like using a windows machine. Its even got ctrl and alt keys. Maybe missing the pageup pagedown keys though.
 
Goddammit it says the earliest in store pickup for me at Best Buy is 5/14. Wtf is with these companies not making enough tablets to go around lol.
 
tino said:
As long as the client machine has keyboard and supports mouse, its basically like using a windows machine. Its even got ctrl and alt keys. Maybe missing the pageup pagedown keys though.
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That's the theory sure but I want to know how well it works in practice: Are the apps designed for Hoenycomb? Can I remap the keys of Mac OS X? Will two finger scrolling work, and other gestures perhaps? How fast is the refresh rate?
 
Vic said:
Something tells me that ASUS has shipped very low quantities.
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Yeah, this is fairly standard for ASUS hardware launches. I wanted to get a 1000HE netbook on their "launch day" but had to wait a week for it to be shipped. Has anybody seen a Transformer in a retail store yet? I'd be very surprised if stores actually have it today.
 
Copernicus said:
I wish people doing these comparisons would do real world comparions instead of swipe swipe swipe "this one wins" yes we know we can swipe and pinch 80 mph.

Something like "jump into browser, get and email, look up video, switch back, load this, etc" like a routine of actual use.
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Floating between elements of the UI, swiping/pinching, responsiveness, etc. *are* going to be a part of routine, actual use.

In any case, the video does a good job of making the comparison. The Asus obviously isn't anywhere near as smooth, but it's hardly crippling.
 
With everyone jumping on any kind of bandwagon Apple starts, are there companies out there still seeking to improve regular netbooks? I'd be content with something that offers 2GB of RAM out of the box, and a low-end, yet not integrated graphics card for $300 or so, but apparently no one including Asus, the originator of the netbook, is interested in doing that.

At least if they wanna make tablets they should drop those weird hybrids and just make real ones. I still remember when brain_stew was praising Sandybridge and how it would allow even netbooks to offer reasonable performances for fairly recent games.

Anyone knows what's up with the classic netbook market?

For anyone asking: no I don't want a tablet because I have really sweaty palms, don't want to be using a stylus all the time and like physical keyboards.
 
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