12" isn't too big for tablet. What you need is the Asus Eee Slate:
http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Slate_EP121/
However...given its size, it will weight a lot more and much poorer battery life.

I love how Asus created the whole netbook thing just to kill it with this transformer tablet.

This basically kills the netbook in very sort of imaginable ways.

Those small Netbook = useless.

The original EEE pad thing, useless. It's crazy how fast technology has changed.

Well it's catered to a different crowd. Some ppl still like to run windows and desktop programs.

And some of us NEED to. I work with surveillance systems and network cameras. The systems we use have only a Windows-based client. 90% of the cameras require ActiveX to view their live views and setup pages. Android and *nix are useless, so a netbook that runs Windows suits me perfectly.

I was using a 15" laptop before, but it was heavy and bulky and unbalanced, had lousy battery life, and was hard to see in bright light. It was a PITA to carry up a ladder or balance on a lift. My netbook runs all day on a charge, is light as a feather, and the LED-backlit screen is readable in direct sunlight.

So.... no, Android tablets and iPads will NOT be replacing netbooks or laptops. They're a different market, that's all... like cars vs. trucks vs. trains.

i honestly didn't think tablets would take off when ipad was announced around a year ago...look at all these companies jumping ships within such a small time-frame (viewsonic/samsung/BB/asus)

Yeah I've looked into that. The battery life is only 3-4 hours and it is twice as much as the transformer. Not worth it IMO.

There were a lot of tablets available prior to the iPad. Fujitsu's been making tablet computers since the 90's. Bill Gates tried pushing tablets back in 2001 but I guess without the cult following, it never took off

IMO tablets need not imitate a full sized computer and run windows. Those OSes were made/designed to be operated with a keyboard and a mouse.

What apple did though, specifically starting with the iPhone is made a completely "new" way to navigate through an operating system, by designing it around WHAT is used to navigate the interface, rather than supplying compromises to make your fingers act as a mouse or keyboard

Microsoft Surface did all that and it long predates the iphone. Why Microsoft didn't release it to the public is a mystery to me but they had a touch OS for a long time.

Seems like there is a least 250+ people on NCIX's waitlist/preorder already.....

It's pretty much sold out everywhere now. Supposedly more stock next week

How is the iPad better than this thing??
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thats dependent on what you want to use it for...

-Price
-ability to attack a keyboard elegantly and double battery life
-Flash
-widescreen

Android apps have pretty much caught up to the app store. This tablet looks like a winner to me!
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Far more apps. Far more accessories/cases/docks to choose from.

Oh, and there's that little graphics thing. You know, the iPad 2 is anywhere from 2-5 times faster. But graphics speed means nothing on a tablet, which is all screen, so it's not really an advantage at all.

There are many great keyboards for the iPad 2, and you can choose which one you like instead of the proprietary Asus one. As I'm typing this there's an ad for the Zagg mate at the top of the page.

Apps for Honeycomb are a long way behind iOS. On the smartphone side Android is doing very well - maybe that's what you were referring to.

Any bluetooth keyboard will work, the Asus keyboard does have another battery that'll just about double it's uptime.

And the I pad has been out for how long??? and like everything else apple there overpriced.


Did you watch South Park last night. :LOL:

This looks awesome. Definitely interested in getting this.

Shipping and delivery is a crapshoot right now.

If you think you're lucky, try walking into an NCIX retail store to score one. I read on the NCIX forums that you might have a chance getting one sooner that way.

I'm on back order from amazon.ca .... waiting... patiently.. kinda

And how many developers are going to bother to make a keyboard for the Asus when Asus already has their own? Sure any Bluetooth one will work, but wouldn't you prefer one that was actually made specifically (meaning it's sized and styled to match your Transformer) for it?

You can also use any BT keyboard with the iPad as well. Despite this, only a small number of people actually get keyboards for their iPads. This is because they bought the iPad for consumption, not creation, and the on-screen keyboard works well enough for the amount they use it.

Didn't you learn your lesson the last time you used that argument? Sure Apple branded accessories (like cables/adaptors) are expensive, but so are ones sold by every manufacturer. Complaining about Apple charging $30 for a cable is pointless when a dozen companies make compatible ones for $5 (or less).

And the fact still remains that with an iPad 2 you will have a choice of countless accessories made by numerous manufacturers. You won't see that for any other tablet until after they've been successful and have significant sales numbers. No company is going to want to spend money tooling up for production of an item without first having a market to sell to.



Oh, and I see no responses on my comment about the iPad 2 killing the Transformer in graphics performance.

^ and THAT'S the exact reason why the OEM keyboard is so much better.

^ Good point. iPads are consumption-orientated....that's because that is how Apple framed it all in their iTunes-iPad-iPhone-iPod ecosystem. Awesome business strategy if you ask me.

The Honeycomb OS is targeted towards a totally different type of user.

^ As someone who is personally starting to develop for Honeycomb, I see lots of potential in developing for Honeycomb tablets. Honestly, Honeycomb had only been released for a few months. It's easy to forget that iOS has been on the market for 4 years now...if they didn't optimize the OS graphically by now, shame on Apple. Almost no OS manufacturer has perfected their OS in the first go, so I see no difference between Honeycomb and iOS. Also, Google is locking down on their hardware requirements for Honeycomb tablets, so it will make harnessing the processing power much better than previously in other Android iterations.

Anyways, this thread is about the Asus Transformer. No point in bashing it with Apple-trolling.

demonstration? :troll: