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    Can't keep up with Asus anymore..what to do?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by forevergone, Jun 7, 2012.

  1. forevergone

    forevergone Newbie

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    So I've been saving up and waiting for the Transformer infinity, but with the newly announced AiO transformer, this completely changes my consideration for the infinity. Having sold my tf101, and waiting for nearly half a year, the infinity is coming soon but with this, I'd definitely want the dual-booting tablet. I still want something in the 10-11" tablet range. I won't rule out Windows 8 transformerbooks either. I feel like if I keep waiting, I won't be able to get the best bang for buck.

    Thoughts?
     
  2. nipsen

    nipsen Notebook Ditty

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    Mm. Get the tf300t, Prime(ish) Pad, plastic edition :)

    Not too expensive, all of the performance and most of the features of the Transformer Prime. And will give you a good impression of where the Wayne chipsets will pick up.

    Note that the tablets that will come with Win RT are going to run a compatibility layer to run certain windows stack over ARM. But since the chipset already supports out of order execution, the performance of this particular hardware on that stack is going to be much better than on phones and most other tablets, where that stack is intended to be run.

    And if the tablet ran with an x86 processor, the power-requirement is very different, specially under load.

    So it might not be a really great idea from a performance point of view to pick either win8 in that form-factor - or winRT on ARM for that particular tablet and chipset.
     
  3. forevergone

    forevergone Newbie

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    The one problem I have with the T300T is that it's not as sleek in design as the TF201, but Asus did that on purpose. That is my one drawback thats holding me from buying the tablet. I do like the design of the original Prime