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Suggestions on a new 10" tablet?

jhawkkw said:
Asus has a really nifty new tablet coming out soon, but it's kind of on the large side and might be rather expensive. The AIO will be a full fledged laptop/tablet combo with the ability to dual boot both android and windows 8.
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OHHHHHH THAT SOUNDS AWESOME!!! gonna have to keep my on that one.
 
ocnbrze said:
OHHHHHH THAT SOUNDS AWESOME!!! gonna have to keep my on that one.
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The only problem is that the screen is going to be 18.4 inches. It is a transformer so there will be a keyboard dock option, or tablet only mode without using the keyboard. But other than that, it seems awesome.
 
I might be a little late to this party, but I'd like to add my two cents.

I've owned the TF201, the TF700, and the Galaxy Note 10.1 (along with the Lenovo K1, Sony Tablet S, Galaxy 7 Plus, Galaxy Tab 2 7", and the Nexus 7). I buy/sell/trade them all through craigslist, use them for a few weeks, and then punt them. After trying all of them, I keep coming back to the TF201.

I don't understand why the Prime gets such a bad rap. Yes, the GPS is unusable. But otherwise, it's an awesome device. It's the thinnest of the bunch, the aluminum backing makes it feel super-strong, and the display beats everything out there besides the TF700. But the lower resolution screen translates into a faster tablet because the processor doesn't have to push all those extra pixels. So the TF201 is actually faster in some respects than the TF700. Asus provides as close to stock Android as you're going to find. And the docking station really does add a different dimension to either Asus tablet.

The Note 10.1 is a really nice looking device, the S-Pen is cool (although I didn't use it much), and the front facing speakers should be built into all future tablets. But, Samsung skins the hell out of the device and the plastic back make the tablets feel really cheap, especially when compared to the Transformers. The Note 10.1 can be rooted and I think the dev community is pretty strong, but the Asus dev community is probably stronger imo.

So, to sum it all up, I'm still partial to the Prime. I'm dying to get my hands on the Nexus 10 because I assume that's the best of everything right now, but $400 is too rich for my blood right now and I haven't been able to score a used one on CL yet. I'm also scared away because I really like having an option for expandable storage. But, it's only a matter of time before I find one. And probably by the time I get one, a newer/faster/better tablet will already be released.

Good luck on your search. I hope this helps.
 
ouch1976 said:
I might be a little late to this party, but I'd like to add my two cents.

I've owned the TF201, the TF700, and the Galaxy Note 10.1 (along with the Lenovo K1, Sony Tablet S, Galaxy 7 Plus, Galaxy Tab 2 7", and the Nexus 7). I buy/sell/trade them all through craigslist, use them for a few weeks, and then punt them. After trying all of them, I keep coming back to the TF201.

I don't understand why the Prime gets such a bad rap. Yes, the GPS is unusable. But otherwise, it's an awesome device. It's the thinnest of the bunch, the aluminum backing makes it feel super-strong, and the display beats everything out there besides the TF700. But the lower resolution screen translates into a faster tablet because the processor doesn't have to push all those extra pixels. So the TF201 is actually faster in some respects than the TF700. Asus provides as close to stock Android as you're going to find. And the docking station really does add a different dimension to either Asus tablet.

The Note 10.1 is a really nice looking device, the S-Pen is cool (although I didn't use it much), and the front facing speakers should be built into all future tablets. But, Samsung skins the hell out of the device and the plastic back make the tablets feel really cheap, especially when compared to the Transformers. The Note 10.1 can be rooted and I think the dev community is pretty strong, but the Asus dev community is probably stronger imo.

So, to sum it all up, I'm still partial to the Prime. I'm dying to get my hands on the Nexus 10 because I assume that's the best of everything right now, but $400 is too rich for my blood right now and I haven't been able to score a used one on CL yet. I'm also scared away because I really like having an option for expandable storage. But, it's only a matter of time before I find one. And probably by the time I get one, a newer/faster/better tablet will already be released.

Good luck on your search. I hope this helps.
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Personally, I think I liked the 201 more than the 700 and kind of regret upgrading. The much greater battery life was worth more than the 1080p screen imo.
 
my prime sucked!!!!! it was slow and lagged. i kept getting crashes and a lot of my apps were force closing on me all the time. unfortunately(or fortunately) the prime took a spill off of my table when my dumb dog got a little too excited. i had geek squad protection and they ended up replacing the tablet with an infinity.....i could never be happier.
 
They're both very good from my experience, I'm just not very impressed with battery life on the infinity and the lag that came from the 1080p screen combined with the I/O bugs of earlier builds compared to the prime. Going from averaging 20 hours to about 8 hours is a dramatic drop.
 
So 3 months and much anguish later and I have a working Nexus 10. Its everything I could've hoped for, and more. Finally a tab with dozens of official ROM's instead of dozens of unofficial, half-functional ones :D
 
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