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Russcausier82

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Just sold my xoom as its very slow and laggy and have mainly been looking at the transformer,is the transformer laggy on the home screens?what's everyone's opinion of the transformer?and what's it like on 3.1?any feedback would be greatly appreciated :-)
 
Russcausier82 said:
Just sold my xoom as its very slow and laggy and have mainly been looking at the transformer,is the transformer laggy on the home screens?what's everyone's opinion of the transformer?and what's it like on 3.1?any feedback would be greatly appreciated :-)
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Mine has not been laggy, every once in awhile it will slow down a little but it speeds right back up. Running 3.1 I have used the snot out of mine and it seems to be doing well. The camera could be a 'little' better, but for as often as I will use it it does not bother me all that much. It takes great photos, but in lower light it tends to get that camera phone haze.

Mine is a 16gb that I have a 32gb micro SD also installed.
 
Eris1981 said:
Mine has not been laggy, every once in awhile it will slow down a little but it speeds right back up. Running 3.1 I have used the snot out of mine and it seems to be doing well. The camera could be a 'little' better, but for as often as I will use it it does not bother me all that much. It takes great photos, but in lower light it tends to get that camera phone haze.

Mine is a 16gb that I have a 32gb micro SD also installed.
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I'm mainly concerned about lagg like between home screens and that,I've got sgs2 for good camera,I wanted a 32gb but seems like you get docking station with 16gb?but like you say its great for extra memory!!
 
Russcausier82 said:
I'm mainly concerned about lagg like between home screens and that,I've got sgs2 for good camera,I wanted a 32gb but seems like you get docking station with 16gb?but like you say its great for extra memory!!
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I have not noticed any between home screens. I do have the dock, but I also have a 32gb Microsd installed in the side of the tablet for extra storage.

I can still attach another SD card in the dock, or use USB sticks or a USB hard drive as well.
 
Honeycomb homescreen transitions arent as instant and buttery smooth as iOS transitions on the iPad2 are, there is a tiny bit of lag on all Honeycomb tablets that I have seen.

Having said that, the transformer on 3.1 is very very close, its very smooth and the lag isnt an issue at all. Using a static wallpaper and turning off window animations in settings makes it almost perfect.
 
Russcausier82 said:
Just sold my xoom as its very slow and laggy and have mainly been looking at the transformer,is the transformer laggy on the home screens?what's everyone's opinion of the transformer?and what's it like on 3.1?any feedback would be greatly appreciated :-)
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I got my Transformer with Dock as I needed to replace my IBM thinkpad X60 which was expiring and wanted atablet as well as a notebook.

I have to say I can find nothing to complain about the Transformer It boots fast and having so many input options is really handy and when I add a mouse its just about perfect I have not experienced any lagging whatsoever in either tablet or notebook mode.

I still need to sort out printing and I would like to be able to connect a DVD drive so I can watch films but if its not possible then I will just get some decent ripping/ conversion SW and load to microSD my music collection is all mp3 so thats no problem.

If I have one niggle its the truly dreadful google music app I really cannot get along with it!
 
is 3.1 good enough for me to try to manually load it? or should I just wait for OTA? just got my transformer Wednesday and been using the Apple Airport wifi at work and when I check it says no update is available. but I did download the 3.1 update onto a formated blank sd card, both the zip and un-zipped files are on it. do I just put that into my transformer and it'll recognize it? sorry, total noob here

Edit: so far I'm loving the Transformer for $400 it's worth it so far, but I want to play and learn more about developing for apps so I got it for rooting and stuff which I'll get to in a bit just want to experience stock for awhile first
 
LostArtist said:
is 3.1 good enough for me to try to manually load it? or should I just wait for OTA? just got my transformer Wednesday and been using the Apple Airport wifi at work and when I check it says no update is available. but I did download the 3.1 update onto a formated blank sd card, both the zip and un-zipped files are on it. do I just put that into my transformer and it'll recognize it? sorry, total noob here

Edit: so far I'm loving the Transformer for $400 it's worth it so far, but I want to play and learn more about developing for apps so I got it for rooting and stuff which I'll get to in a bit just want to experience stock for awhile first
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Try going into the settings and telling it to manually look for system updates.
 
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