Meet the iPad Killer - Asus ePad Transformer

[Khun Ying Pojaman]

http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/hands-on-asus-eee-pad-transformer-review-932987

 

[uncleyap]

Price tag leh? With keyboard how much?

 

[Khun Ying Pojaman]

Price tag leh? With keyboard how much?

NT$14,900 for 16GB without keyboard
NT$16,900 for 32GB without keyboard

Keyboard $4,490 (some dealers offering NT$3,500)

 

[Khun Ying Pojaman]

Uncle, you interested ah ? Prison got wifi meh ?

 

[ivebert]

What peasants

How can you kill an American product with a 3rd-class Taiwan product?
They only manufacture goods for us. When it comes to design, they are 3rd-rate. Having said that, Sinkie designs are the worst :p

 

[Khun Ying Pojaman]

What peasants
Sinkie designs are the worst :p

Including you

 

[Rogue Trader]

Still waiting for the Htc flyer!

 

[uncleyap]

NT$14,900 for 16GB without keyboard
NT$16,900 for 32GB without keyboard

Keyboard $4,490 (some dealers offering NT$3,500)

mmm.. S$800-900 range w keybd.

Andriod... it is linux but not a fully opened linux...

I mean unlike a tabloid PC or netbook that you install your own linux distribution e.g. ubuntu, which gives yourself full root control etc. Android is a linux in it's base, but it closed you off and leave you to only a google designed UI, you can not normally get below this hood.

So not for this price. S$300-400 Android smart handphone can try. But not this.:p:(

Because for S$800-900 you would need to expect more than this Android appliance and expect something like a laptop performance which gives you full below the hood controls.

Netbooks: S$500-600 can get already. But not with big RAM, have to pay more to add RAM.

What is impressive of this one is total of 16 hour battery life when keyboard is included. You need not bring your charger around any more.

 

[Khun Ying Pojaman]

Uncle, you mean this Transformer cannot perform the normal functions of a laptop ? Why ?

 

[uncleyap]

Uncle, you mean this Transformer cannot perform the normal functions of a laptop ? Why ?

Different class of device. Laptops allow you to install ANY OS up from BIOS level. Andriod devices is very closed up. You can down load apps only, can not change OS, I think mostly not even possible to upgrade say from Andriod 2.2 to 3.x

Even in hardware sense, I suspect you can not easily upgrade RAM like laptops, since it is more like a huge handphone in design. You can not add RAM to handphones - no DIMM sockets.

Laptop can replace / upgrade HDD & RAM at least. Desktops you can replace ANYTHING! Casing / Power Supply / cards / Graphics / Motherboard / RAM / CPU / HDD / DVD / network ....

In the very 1st place, these Andriod devices are different class. Even the strongest nVidia dual core is still the 32 bit ARMs which are tiny processor power compared with PCs.

Most laptops are 64 bit dual / quad cores. Desktops can be 6-core. Severs 12 cores and onwards.

RAM wise, there is a roughly 10X difference between these tablets or smart phones compared against laptops.

Then after looking at all these specs, you see the prices again.

How close are their prices against laptops? Too close! But performance far below!

 

[Khun Ying Pojaman]

Wow...Uncle, I'm impressed !