Bully Tablet, Even Ameliorate Netbook?

Equally a tablet computer the Asus Eee Pad Transformer functions extremely well, providing strong performance, fantabulous battery life, intuitive software and fantabulous aesthetics. At $385 for the 16GB version nosotros consider the Eee Pad Transformer to be a existent bargain.

Annotation that upwardly until a few weeks ago the merely product able to match the price of the Eee Pad Transformer was the Acer Iconia Tab A500 (read our review) with all other tablets selling for $500 or more. Lately though, we've had the HP TouchPad fire sale and other Honeycomb tablets like the Toshiba Thrive dropping in price.

When compared to the iPad ii, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer is roughly $100 less. When you lot factor in the toll of the docking station, which is an extra $120, the entire package becomes a bit more expensive, however I personally found the docking station to be invaluable.

Information technology all comes down to what you are looking for in such a device. If y'all want the pure simplified tablet experience that Apple tree has offered from the beginning, the iPad still does information technology best and has a large catalog of apps that Android certainly tin can't yet match.

The Eee Pad Transformer on the other hand shines because it integrates netbook functionality quite well. The docking station is also more just a keyboard with a trackpad. The actress bombardment which extends life to 15 hours is vivid (when testing we often saw the batteries last this long) and the two USB 2.0 ports -- lacking on the Eee Pad itself -- proved invaluable every bit they allowed for quick access to portable storage.

Still, it'southward the keyboard that is the primary selling point for me. Every bit I spend a lot of time writing, the ability to act every bit a netbook when need it makes the Eee Pad Transformer a ameliorate tablet pick for me (if that fifty-fifty makes sense, though I'thousand sure I'grand not alone).

Although I didn't meet any major problems when using the Eee Pad Transformer, there was one affair I constitute abrasive nearly the device and it was noticeable from the second I turned it on. At the lesser of the screen there is quite a bit of backlight drain, very noticeable on blackness backgrounds. Initially I thought this could have been limited to our review unit of measurement, simply I found many users complaining about it online, too.

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer looks to be virtually every bit skilful as Android-based tablets become right at present. Those excited nigh the Eee Pad Transformer should know that its successor is rumored to be just a few months away from release.

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