ASUS Transformer Prime & Tegra 3 Details

[Red Storm]

You have it backwards: this makes laptops redundant.

Show me a laptop that weighs nothing, has an IPS screen, 18 hours of battery life, no fan, no overheating, and no moving parts for under $700.

Exactly. And I can take the screen off and just use it as a tablet if I want to.

I just found out that the remote support software we use at work will be releasing both support and client apps for Android (tablet and phone) as well as the iPhone. This is one of the only things I ever actually needed a laptop for when at home, but now it's another nail in its coffin.

 

[alent1234]

my ipad still hasn't replaced my laptop. when i'm home and need to vpn into work it's usually on my laptop because the touch interface is very bad for the things i need to do.

i don't think the ipad has replaced a computer either. handbrake doesn't run on my ipad along with a lot of other applications. my ipad crashed i have to restore from backup on my laptop because that's where all the master copies of the books/pdf's and other media reside

 

[gorcorps]

i personally don't see any point in a tablet/keyboard combo. i can type just fine on my ipad and don't have any accessories except a case for it. once you start buying keyboards and whatever for a tablet you might as well buy a laptop

Because some people CAN'T type just fine, or as fast as they'd like while chatting and emailing. At that point why not use a keyboard if it's available? You still have the option of having only the tablet when you need it. With a laptop you're stuck with clamshell or nothing... no way to be lighter or more portable when you don't need the keyboard. I fail to see how having a choice is worse than being forced to use only one or the other.

 

[Red Storm]

my ipad still hasn't replaced my laptop. when i'm home and need to vpn into work it's usually on my laptop because the touch interface is very bad for the things i need to do.

That's one of the things that the Prime's keyboard dock is good for.

I stopped re-encoding files the day my mobile devices gained apps that could play just about any format. There isn't any application that I need when not at work that can't be done with an existing Android app.

 

[alent1234]

what about at home? my laptop doesn't leave my bag most days at home but the ipad still hasn't replaced it. the touch interface is a limiting factor for a lot of things

 

[Red Storm]

what about at home? my laptop doesn't leave my bag most days at home but the ipad still hasn't replaced it. the touch interface is a limiting factor for a lot of things

At home I watch videos, read books, sometimes listen to music, chat and email with friends and family... and that's it. Occasionally I'll have to help out one of our employees working overnight or on the weekends, but as I said in a previous post, the support software we use is now being ported to Android, so I'm all set.

 

[quest55720]

I am suprised at the price I figured they would have a 399.99 model. The low price is what helped the orginal transformer take off. Amazon and B&N are dancing a jig right now. I fully expect a price drop very fast. The average person will walk into a store and see the prime and Ipad2 for the same price and apple wins that one. The average person is not going to notice the difference under the hood when playing with them at a store. So name brand wins out.

 

[alent1234]

the normal bugs aside iOS 5 is better than android at this point. the new notifications are my latest fave. android needs to stop with the new features and make the existing ones better.

my newest use for my iphone and ipad is to put them on the desk while i work, lock the screen and watch the emails come in. i have a bunch of email folders and sometimes miss emails. not anymore with the new iOS 5 notifications. unlike my droid pro with iOS 5 i get a 5 line preview on the lock screen of every email that comes in. i can work on something and glance up every time the screen turns on due to emails coming in

the newest fad is buying electronic gizmo's to use at work and for yourself and apple is a lot better at it

$199 kindle fire is an awesome deal. who cares if you can't use it for work
$499 ipad wins just because you can use it for work as well

 

[Red Storm]

the normal bugs aside iOS 5 is better than android at this point. the new notifications are my latest fave. android needs to stop with the new features and make the existing ones better.

my newest use for my iphone and ipad is to put them on the desk while i work, lock the screen and watch the emails come in. i have a bunch of email folders and sometimes miss emails. not anymore with the new iOS 5 notifications. unlike my droid pro with iOS 5 i get a 5 line preview on the lock screen of every email that comes in. i can work on something and glance up every time the screen turns on due to emails coming in.

You can already do this with Android, along with a lot more. I can put any widget on my lock screen. I can't even use widgets with iOS no matter what screen I'm on.

 

[alent1234]

which one will do that with the same functionality? never found anything while i had my HTC which i didn't like for exchange email anyway

 

[iahk]

the normal bugs aside iOS 5 is better than android at this point. the new notifications are my latest fave. android needs to stop with the new features and make the existing ones better.

my newest use for my iphone and ipad is to put them on the desk while i work, lock the screen and watch the emails come in. i have a bunch of email folders and sometimes miss emails. not anymore with the new iOS 5 notifications. unlike my droid pro with iOS 5 i get a 5 line preview on the lock screen of every email that comes in. i can work on something and glance up every time the screen turns on due to emails coming in

the newest fad is buying electronic gizmo's to use at work and for yourself and apple is a lot better at it

$199 kindle fire is an awesome deal. who cares if you can't use it for work
$499 ipad wins just because you can use it for work as well

unfortunately for apple, I'm still getting the transformer prime. if you didn't already know, if you don't like how android does things, you can customize things to have it done a way you like. this is even more so in ics.

 

[disports]

unfortunately for apple, I'm still getting the transformer prime. if you didn't already know, if you don't like how android does things, you can customize things to have it done a way you like. this is even more so in ics.

Which I see as good and bad. It's great to be able to customize things to my liking (the good) but I find myself constantly tweaking and never being satisfied with my setup (the bad) leading to more purchases (mostly unnecessary, i.e. computer building) or wanting things to just work so I can stop thinking about it (which applies to my MBA).

 

[Piano Man]

Looks like a great tablet, but my hesitation, much like with android phones 2 years ago, is that the app support for it is abysmal. I'm really hoping the cheap tablets like the Fire and Nook give android a broad enough market share for developers to take notice.

 

[Mopetar]

Looks like a great tablet, but my hesitation, much like with android phones 2 years ago, is that the app support for it is abysmal. I'm really hoping the cheap tablets like the Fire and Nook give android a broad enough market share for developers to take notice.

The only problem is that those are devices running 2.x, so any development done for those devices first isn't going to include anything added in HC or ICS. Maybe that's better than what there is now, but it potentially creates a lot of problems for the future.

 

[soccerballtux]

This.

I'm going to hold out for the phone version of this that docks to the tablet that docs to the keyboard that takes USB mouse/keyboard and lets me plug into my display.
anyone else with me???
I actually intend to keep my heavily tweaked OG Droid until then.
enough about me.

 

[Puddle Jumper]

You have it backwards: this makes laptops redundant.

Show me a laptop that weighs nothing, has an IPS screen, 18 hours of battery life, no fan, no overheating, and no moving parts for under $700.

Show me a tablet that's even half as fast as a Sandy Bridge laptop and then it would be a valid comparison.

Don't get me wrong tablets are great but just because the Transformer has a keyboard dock doesn't mean it can replace a laptop. At this point the only way I see that happening is with x86 Windows 8 tablets since that would get you full support for the same applications people use on a laptop.

 

[s44]

Show me a tablet that's even half as fast as a Sandy Bridge laptop and then it would be a valid comparison.

For browsing, writing, looking at documents, other office work, and media playback? I expect the Prime to be equally fast.

Given that this is what 90+% of people do with their laptops, it's pretty valid. I have a desktop (and Splashtop, if necessary) for the rest.

 

[Puddle Jumper]

For browsing, writing, looking at documents, other office work, and media playback? I expect the Prime to be equally fast.

Given that this is what 90+% of people do with their laptops, it's pretty valid. I have a desktop (and Splashtop, if necessary) for the rest.

I guess I don't see a reason to force myself to rely on remote desktop apps when I can have desktop performance and all of my desktop applications in a system barely larger than the Prime.

I can see it making netbooks less relevant than they are already but I just don't see them making real ultraportables redundant. My x220 lets me do anything my desktop does, the Prime would not. Granted the x220 is more expensive but you do get what you pay for in this case.

 

[Red Storm]

I guess I don't see a reason to force myself to rely on remote desktop apps when I can have desktop performance and all of my desktop applications in a system barely larger than the Prime.

I can see it making netbooks less relevant than they are already but I just don't see them making real ultraportables redundant. My x220 lets me do anything my desktop does, the Prime would not. Granted the x220 is more expensive but you do get what you pay for in this case.

Look at the uses s44 mentioned. That right there makes up 95% of what I do on my current laptop. The other 5% is a remote support software for work who is about to release an Android port. The Transformer is much thinner, completely silent, much longer battery life, and I can always remove the tablet portion and use just that for much more comfortable media consumption.

For me, it certainly is a laptop replacement. And not just a replacement, it will do the job better.

 

[Mopetar]

There's some speculation that the Tegra 3 might be a bit of a flop. It's from Charlie Demerjian though, so take it with the usual grain of salt.

If he's right about the Krait it should make for some amazing devices in the not too distant future.

 

[Geekbabe]

Wow. Looks great. I will buy one as soon as I can get it locally.

me too!

 

[s44]

It's from Charlie Demerjian though, so take it with the usual mountain of salt.

FYP

 

[sontin]

There's some speculation that the Tegra 3 might be a bit of a flop. It's from Charlie Demerjian though, so take it with the usual grain of salt.

If he's right about the Krait it should make for some amazing devices in the not too distant future.

What do you expect from him? He is saying the same over and over and over again. Like he did with the Geforce cards. At the end he was in everything wrong what he wrote about Tegra 2. Why do you think he has a clue about Tegra 3, the OEMs and the competitions?

And for a good laugh:
After nVidia announced the "Ninja Core" and that they are using HP and the LP process of 40nm he wrote Anand over twitter, that this would be the reason Tegra 2 has such a bad power consumption because the competition is using the LP for the ARM-Cores. And know he is writing that using the LP for the ARM-Cores would be stupid because it's increasing the cost of the Chip...

 

[Fire&Blood]

T-Prime hands on:
http://translate.google.com/transla...ds-on-asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-tegra-3/

I loled when I read the Super IPS+ acronym and it has a subwoofer too.

 

[Fire&Blood]

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