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Tablet and Notebook Redefined: Asus Transformer Prime In-depth Look

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This is not an in-depth look at all, unless you consider someone making wild conclusions about a press release, and showing 3d-models "in-depth".

Going on about the real battery life, when the machine may not even exist yet just screams amateur hour.

Seriously. This is a rehash of a press release/slide deck. You would think an in-depth look would at least include some hands on impressions. This is more "Asus Transformer Prime Press Release In-Depth Look".

One thing that stuck with me about The Verge's Asus Ultrabook review is how bad they found the keyboard to be. And here the "article" states:

Extremely thin tablet+extremely thin keyboard, both made from aluminum and packed together – what more could you want?

I haven't seen anyone complaining about the keyboard on the Asus Transformer though, which would seem more relevant, right? Amazon has it as 4* with 138 reviews.

I use the first generation Transformer and i can recommend it to everyone as a netbook replacement. If you invest in a few good productivity apps you can do everything as well as on a netbook, but with a whooping 16hours of battery life...

Even rdp works, but its not perfect because right click with a mouse doesn't get send over, atleast with the built in solution.

This seems to be a really good idea coupled with what looks like a good execution.

I don't think the article mentioned a price, but it seems it will start at around $499 for 32GB storage space. I think this could easily replace the sort of notebook most people get for that amount of money, and with 18 hours (!) of battery life, it would probably serve them better as well.

If this sort of product takes off, it could really be the year of Linux on the laptop--just in the form of Android. At the very least, I can dream...

I bought the original Asus Transformer about 6 months ago and have been using it almost daily ever since. At the time it was quite difficult to find one as it was sold out almost as it arrived in stores. It is a fine product if not quite as good looking as the iPad 2. However it was cheaper, has IPS screen with gorilla glass, sdcard expandability and around an 8-10 hour battery life. In the months since I bought it I've seen the number of quality apps in the appstore grow considerably. I now use the device at home about 90% of the time I need to use a computer.

If the Transformer Prime is along the same lines as the original transformer - with these better specs, I would say its a potential winner.

There is something I find truly funny. The image shows us that there is a 40 pin connector. How is that important to an end user? Are 40 pin connectors better than 39 pin connectors?

I think it's meant as a more information dense version of "non-USB connector", though many users won't realize it means custom connector :-\

This reminds me. Haven't we seen a post about Asus doing nothing but shamelessly copying Apple on top of the first page some time earlier today?

I really hope you're not implying that the Transformer is Asus "shamelessly copying" the iPad.

Which Apple product is this a copy of?

This is a shameless copy of that hybrid iPad/MacBook Air thing Apple just anou.. oh, right, that didn't happen.

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