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A short review on an affordable yet surprising new toy manufactured by ASUS.

The ASUS Transformer T100 is a Windows 8.1 tablet with keyboard dock and often comes with Microsoft Office Student free. This device has a Quad-Core 1.33 Atom processor boasting a ten hour battery life, while online*. It is small, at ten inches, the screen is a five point touch tablet and keyboard dock holds only a touchpad, keys, 1 usb3.0 and the tablet dock pins. Color needs gamma correction, but unless you need to do visual work, it will seem fine--I use the program to up contrast more often then color correct. Sound is beyond surprising, two small speaker grills on the back are deceptive. I've used this device since November, and have yet to need to use the sound at max, even when showing youtube videos while in a noisy area--since brightness is a minor inconvenience, the fact it's highly mobile solves that. My model has 64gb SSD within the tablet, while only about 45~ are visible. Newer model options have a 500gb HDD in the keyboard dock.

I personally used an online tutorial to remove the twice heavier than tablet iron weight-plate from the dock, and have found it nice in the hand, and in a bag. As a tablet, I can use the virtual keyboard and tinker away with Eclipse, an IDE for general coding (and more importantly have it work) and emulate Android. With the keyboard... it's nice. A useful replacement for a smartphone search, along with having Windows functionality. With a Wacom tablet, older games like the Baulder's Gate series and the Fallout series work beautifully being as the screen matches the wacom. Though using a touch pad is rage inducing, especially for these. And a mouse feels overkill.

Final usage. Turning this tablet/netbook into a functional desktop. You'll need a HDMI screen or adapters, 1 HDMI, one mini HDMI adapter (unless you have a spare mini to full HDMI laying around), 1 audio plug, 1 3x usb hub (usb3.0 applicable?) for mouse, keyboard and probably an external and just plug it in. This device barely gets hot, and it only is a little wonky if I leave it on overnight playing videos. Fixes when I restart.

At most this device is $400 when being ripped off. The worst: the brightness is a pain, I apparently was lucky with no problems--there is little quality assurance (some people have sent theirs back three+ times), there's only a microSD slot (which might be interesting with Android emulation...) not including the dock's usb, Windows 8.1 is a headache, and Windows Update eats the best driver configs!
BUT
Notebook forums really help with tweaking it and making the best out of these situations. I am willing to bet the Transformer T100 is the next EeePC, albeit a beta test in terms of assurance. My unwieldy ASUS ROG makes this a great secondary PC. People have proven it has more gaming potential than I'd think. I like it for programming, notepad++ is more responsive than any IDE--Geany works well.

*Note most websites may underquote this device's battery power based on two factors; one being the necessity of the charger the device ships with; secondly rolling updates have solved various power issues and now can be online, operate multiple programs, brightness+sound maxed and while charging still maintain power if not also charge. The latter was not true at first and cut battery life dramatically until power management fixed in mid January. Though, it still needs the stock charger which resembles any Android charger--on these the device still drains while on.