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Transformer launch date US - any rumors?

GeekClass said:
Yes. The taskbar with non-vid related stuff at the bottom. :P

It may not be a big deal for some, but I find it annoying on my desktop when it happens (sometimes the dock doesn't disappear). But there it's easily fixable.
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You missed a part of what I wrote: when you're playing full-screen video, the status bar at the bottom fades away. So, there's the border, of course, because it's a 16:9 video playing on a 16:10 screen, but there are no distracting items on the screen.

Hopefully that clarifies...
 
Either way, it'll look a lot nicer than big black bars at the top and bottom on the ipad or webos tablet.

All I know is. Just made $400 selling a dell streak and laptop from a sweet deal and my money is ready for best buy's taking. Don't have to sell my laptop now.
 
Haha, thinking of the same here dbpaddler.

Currently I have a Captivate for my phone, a desktop that I use the most for websurfing at home, and a Dell laptop I got for 399 a couple years ago.

I hardly touch the Dell, but I consider it necessary/nice to have a "backup" computer, as well as of course something portable.

However dropping 400/550 on this Asus tab isnt something my budget can take lightly, was considering selling my laptop to help finance (figure I can get at least 200 for it).

It's just a tough question, even with the dock, can the transformer make a suitable laptop replacement? I'm not sure, it scares me a little.

But I guess this is kind of OT lol, just interested to see another guy possibly selling his laptop for a transformer.
 
I have an Epic and a 12" x120e Thinkpad (the new AMD Fusion chipset). I always have the laptop on me. I use Office extensively. Do invoicing, pricing, letters and such all the time, and I actually find myself doing more of it on my Epic in DocsToGo. I'll even use ring central to do my faxing via email (fax# @rcfax.com) to send things out I can't email or if I need a hard copy. I rarely need to print directly from the laptop. I think that is the big sticking point as a true laptop replacement, but 'd imagine easy printing will be a non issue in the nea future with the tablet explosion. I think Polaris is a nice looking office suite as well and probably more tablet suited then DTG. So with 16gb on board and a 32gb card, not to mention a plethora of full size 16gb cards, I'll have 64gb available without switching out cards when docked. I'll have access to Office, the web and media. Email is easier because I can make full use of my gmail synced contacts where I don't on my laptop because I don't use gmail. Battery life is slightly over double what I get on my laptop. My phone will last longer as well since I have easy access to the tablet. I have a smaller and lighter rig to carry around. The only real hit is 2" of screen real estate I'll lose. But wit the same res on a smaller and nicer screen, I can deal.

I love the people that just say tabs are toys. They are truly clueless. With keyboard "integration", they can be just as useful as laptops for the typical road warrior with even more functionality due to it being a tab. And if you're already on Android for phone use, using the tab will be a breeze. Everything is familiar. And I think come next year, the level of apps that are tab ready will be ample.

But that's just me. And I laugh at my ipad toting road warriors. They all still carry their laptops for real work. If the app isn't based off a touch interface, they've got nothin' and turn to their laptop. Even the ones with a BT keyboard aren't that seamless.
 
I am seriously considering the Transformer, but as far as the Acer is concerned, you couldn't pay me to take an Acer product. When I worked as an RMA supervisor for a major computer parts supplier Acer components had the worst failure rate of any product we carried, over 60%! I really can't believe the company still exists.
 
SamuraiBigEd said:
I am seriously considering the Transformer, but as far as the Acer is concerned, you couldn't pay me to take an Acer product. When I worked as an RMA supervisor for a major computer parts supplier Acer components had the worst failure rate of any product we carried, over 60%! I really can't believe the company still exists.
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You should stay away from the Iconia then :p

nah, but for real the transformer is made by Asus
 
SamuraiBigEd said:
This I know, Asus rocks! Only motherboard I use, wife's laptop, now a new tablet for me!
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Yea, I'm super excited for the Asus Transformer. It looks great, the specs are awesome, and have heard only positive things about Asus products. I was in Best Buy the other day and couldn't get any information on the launch date though.
 
SamuraiBigEd said:
This I know, Asus rocks! Only motherboard I use, wife's laptop, now a new tablet for me!
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Asus has always made great motherboards and video cards and their netbooks are solid, I think they'll be competitive in the tablet market.

I've used Asus motherboards all the way back to the Pentium 233MHz days or so.
 
The Gtab for $279 shipped (amazon deal of the day) is pretty tempting, especially since none of us know when the Asus will be released. Someone talk me out of buying the Gtab ; p
 
iAstonish said:
The Gtab for $279 shipped (amazon deal of the day) is pretty tempting, especially since none of us know when the Asus will be released. Someone talk me out of buying the Gtab ; p
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Don't buy it. Good enough? No seriously though, if you can wait, I think the Transformer will be a far and away better investment. Especially if you plan to get the keyboard like me. Added battery life, ease of a keyboard, more ports, practically a netbook with all the android goodness. Plus there's the fact that the g-tab needs roms, rooting and xda support/mods to make it good. The Transformer will work very well without any tinkering. Asus > Viewsonic....and uh, most importantly maybe, the screen. I had a g-tab, sure the screen is fine if you are looking right at it and there's not too much light. I don't know how the Transformer will be, but even indoors I was having issues seeing my g-tab sometimes. I sold mine for $300 with a case, before the prices dropped even more...thankfully! Point being, why have the hassle when you can get a 3.0 tab for about a 100 more :P

BTW, i'm not opposed to rooting and tinkering, but it is nice to not have to and have boot loops trying to get a good rom on!
 
That was pretty much what I was looking to hear hahaha

Thanks! Anyone hear anything in regards to release yet though? Seems like the majority of Best Buy employees either are clueless or are acting clueless.
 
Someone on joannastern.com/blog (in the comments for the transformer)said they asked a BB employee to run SKUs and came back with the 30th. Which sounds odd, since thats a saturday. I'm hoping by then at the latest though...
 
hanano17 said:
Don't buy it. Good enough? No seriously though, if you can wait, I think the Transformer will be a far and away better investment. Especially if you plan to get the keyboard like me. Added battery life, ease of a keyboard, more ports, practically a netbook with all the android goodness. Plus there's the fact that the g-tab needs roms, rooting and xda support/mods to make it good. The Transformer will work very well without any tinkering. Asus > Viewsonic....and uh, most importantly maybe, the screen. I had a g-tab, sure the screen is fine if you are looking right at it and there's not too much light. I don't know how the Transformer will be, but even indoors I was having issues seeing my g-tab sometimes. I sold mine for $300 with a case, before the prices dropped even more...thankfully! Point being, why have the hassle when you can get a 3.0 tab for about a 100 more :P

BTW, i'm not opposed to rooting and tinkering, but it is nice to not have to and have boot loops trying to get a good rom on!
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The Gtab is a solid tablet, and spec for spec, one of the best available at the moment. The screen is really not all that bad, I rarely had issue when I was rooting and ROM'ing my business partners. I may still go this route and give the market a year or so to get going.

And at the price point, if you loose or break it you aren't out that much.
 
I was THIS close to getting a Gtab at that price as a second tablet. My wife keeps stealing Xoom, and it would be great to have one I could load all of our games on so that she'll leave my Xoom (soon to be Transfomer) alone...
 
I can't disagree with this, but at this stage of the game I don't want to have to root and fiddle with something I'm using for business and as a laptop replacement. I do that with my phone, but I know my phone runs well stock. The Transformer should be the complete integrated solution and well supported. Even if the gtab's screen "isn't that bad", the Transformer's screen is going to be much much better. If the price dips below $250 on the gtab, I'd pick it up for tinkering purposes, but it'd never be the daily driver in my bag for work.
SamuraiBigEd said:
The Gtab is a solid tablet, and spec for spec, one of the best available at the moment. The screen is really not all that bad, I rarely had issue when I was rooting and ROM'ing my business partners. I may still go this route and give the market a year or so to get going.

And at the price point, if you loose or break it you aren't out that much.
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iAstonish said:
The Gtab for $279 shipped (amazon deal of the day) is pretty tempting, especially since none of us know when the Asus will be released. Someone talk me out of buying the Gtab ; p
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Just FYI, Nvidia pulled support on the gtab (and a few other Tegra based tablets).
 
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