ASUS Transformer Book T100 (T100-TA-C1-GR) Tablet Review - Hardware & Gaming

Many one-sided and entering into the world of Windows tablets once again this time with the Asus T100 transformer let's take a look at this will guide you up with nice about these Windows tablets is that other processes are getting better and better and these things are running a Windows it's not running you noticed the RT version or some scaled-down tablet thing it is running Windows Windows software will run on the desktop or a larger notebook PC I will also run on here me out as well but often preloaded applications may not need more than that on so this is a double-click on top when you first take a look at it but it's got this little wax year and you can slope some help fix it out is a little hard to get out once what will be grabbed with two hands and are not to demo when you do it all because the chapel component is where most of the are the hardware is located and then a desire keyboard dockable cover this hardware and little bit.

I was a Democrat on the front you've got a beautiful screen ability really impressed with the other color quality and just the overall resolution of the screen it is not a button the screen like you have on the iPad or those really high resolution screens were seen on some other tablets but it is really nice and I've been not very happy with the outlooks on this is it running God desktop right now in Windows 3.1 on the site here you've got the home button so we push that button you get brought back to the start menu which is a appoint of the consternation for some but that's how you get to it on a lot of other Windows tablets the button is here in the center however when you're in the dock it's hard to get it that's what they put it on the site here it is legacy just because the contrast is also a volume rocker up and down here are the sleep button is on the topsy push that when you want to put the couple to sleep as little microphone over here on the site you got a card slots he can use those little microSD cards can pop one of those in their expand your storage this particular model has 64 GB of storage and 2 GB of memory so now apart with that what I've seen for other Windows 3.1 tablets out there him that he got to thought reports of HDMI's regular seek adventure television and he cannot pump out 1080 I was able to do that earlier in it that works really well a USB port here for charging and a headphone jack and I should say that you charge it does take a while is a pretty big battery here I found a badly likely really good I have instructed all today at several probably looking at about 9:30 PM now opportunity off and on all day likely not really all that heavily but I still have about the final 65% or so left in the tank and pump at 73% I been playing with Ashley plugging it into my TV and whatnot it's pretty impressive that it's been able to work sale live as long as it has so also that's the hardware's got a camera on board here as well so I wanted to a web your web: some respect or whatever you can do that is right there on your guy noticed that the little light that lights up when you're on a call isn't that right.

So you know there's been some issues with people concerned that your obesity broke into

their computer and start activating the WebCam you really get a look to see if that light is on those really really nice was a little bit brighter but I'm it's a minor minor gripe unsolicited leave the dock section this is the keyboard thing and I get a couple more ports after one more port on here you get a USB 3.0 port so I you have a high-speed USB on there and you can plug in a hub and get a little bit more conductivity out of that which is nice because it purports so on the most reports run here of you to get that full-blown a USB port when other tablets connected either makes a nice sound to when it connects it inherent clicks right in their extend some of them really well so it really feels it feels nice we doesn't feel as good as perhaps a laptop that I was built to have this hinge on it but it's really close it into the latches on really securely on the yard because most of the hardware guys are in the screen it is a little back heavy and normally on the notebook computer on your hardware is in here in the screen is just the screen is the opposite so the little back heavy but it's not bad under it since putting up on the desk actually like the way it deals with desk better when it's a lock down because the this off or be grabbed him when the thing is open the can share Crops up to keyboard a little bit which does make it a little bit more comfortable to type on on but it does us light around a little bit more than it would otherwise I'm not crazy about the keyboard to keyboard is sudden has the chiclet style keys that we saw on the books back in the day so a little disappointed with that would've liked to seen larger keys already moved to keyboard up a little bit or something so that I we can get a normal size keyboard so that some pets disappoint as little hard to type I was get angry and aggravated when is a small shift on the site is because I'm typically hitting the shift key with my eye with my right hand and I a lot of has a hippie era bureaucrat used to having larger shift keying so I'm little now little bit upset about that on the trackpad is decent it's not perfect but it doesn't work so well I disabled a lot of the gestures that on it has on it on by default you like that if you just happen without pushing it down I would actually do a mouse clicks are disabled that Anna got going there so I'm pretty good on tonight I found its it's possible usable but I am I'm not very comfortably typing on it so I was not too happy to keyboard on the net for the problems with this they really don't have a choice he did was get a Bluetooth keyboard but it would be nice to have the couple different keyboard layouts user but I'm getting pickier so on so that is that part now have really been impressed with is the performance on this thing others is not running you know.

I seven processor something higher-end but you can run portal on it which is a great game from valve I did try to run some other games on it as well as the little broker I ran I couldn'tprogram a couple of the things that I could actually read criminals at a great space to have really been enjoying playing it pretty hardware intensive is a lot of physics and a lot of the really large-scale graphics that has to contend with and I turned down a lot of the settings it actually ran out of not well invented a pretty crappy frame rate but it did run so I think we cannot say that you can do a little beginning on this thing and we can to start a new game real quick here. Into this chamber here to see what the getting possesses at the game so it's usually not indicative of newer stuff that might be out there but you get a sense though it's different is pretty decent it's really been equipping here so I can probably tweak the settings a little bit more but not really actually impressed that he couldn't you game with a real PC game on this thing it's really pretty slick so not bad for that so that's a pretty neat little feature and is also the Windows 8 games available for two so flee a pop back into our menu here to go to you I'm about to talk a lot about Windows 8 you like it or you don't like it I am kind of in the middle but it's frustrating such never find them looking for in such a pain to get stuff into the top menu and we could do a whole show on that but, I did download somewhere one of the tablet games for this thing with whom I can find it real quick.

 Sorry again out of this game but I found it a cell of figure look at it real quick unit is asphalt eight on this and they tablet games so you slowly flouts returned on the five-year-old threat to Isaac's runs regularly is not thought that a lot of prejudices written for tablets so to begin a three-game here at demo of it so just to see how it works your syllabus to a quick race real quick and see how the graphics look on it so do with career here with this one will go to next and start the race so you know it works quite well granted is running an Intel atom processor so it's not a beautiful of the more powerful than you have on some other things on this also while quad core processors would have a little bit more horsepower than you might see in some other things to himself in order to real quick I met up Columbus in two we replace your first casino runs a music keyboard now so it works this chamber taken particular works of keyboard controls but that runs pretty smoothly them as impressive yet and it's not surprising as the game is running on tablets usually with much lower processor so is able to do that will try real quick is to be a real experiment here with the plot was into my HDMI and run it through our video switcher here and see how it how it works when were going out to 1080 so here we are to try to drive here and see the thyroiditis crash my car so of the fight was pretty good this is popping out of 1080 TBI this case but you I would imagine probably work okay and not 1080 P as well the one thing to keep in line with this and many other Windows tablets of this class is that they had the 16 x 9 displays which are very wide display so it looks nice when you're in the landscape mode but the things that I found is that when you do pop it out and go into other portrait mode is that it gets a little bit hard to look at it because you know it it becomes very very long eat a lot of with urinary tract overcompensate for you to shrink the page down so you cannot scroll around a little bit but often found it just feels just a little odd to me is to have this much-not that much with the  do a lot more this, screwing around on the iPad and other screens with 4 x 3 displays your useful almost both orientations that you can rotate it this way and have a useful screen also look at and not portrait mode for usefully also so it is a matter of taste.

I suppose a guy I just often found it hard to use this these tablets in this orientation on it

upon you get less less text on the screen when I'm in the landscape orientations that's one thing to keep in mind that might be wondering analysis of good replacement for a computer or even a tablet like a lot of calls for people who are thinking about dumping your computer completely and going to an iPad with a keyboard and for some people that might work just fine on however I found that keywords in iPad system go that well together you design the iPad to work with a keyboard or mouse so I think that productivity applications were processing and and the like you really do better on a computer whether the Cronbach word netbook or a small altar book or something are one of these obviously was designed to be a Windows computer with a mouse and a keyboard that I is somewhat integrated with the operating system recognizes that when you want to tablet you can just pop it off and the tablet functionality family after the iPad hasn't been the iPad does tablet better than Windows does tablet but this thing does computer better than Windows and opportune school I think this is a great option if you are looking at this in a an iPad in the Cronbach this might be the best option because it can use off-line without a lot of complications has a decent keyboard it comes with the abuses version of this is when reviewing today comes with Microsoft Office and comes with the home and student efficiency get Word Excel PowerPoint and one note on some really for under $400 you get a really complete full-blown PC that doubles as a tablet and it's really inexpensive and powerful and good battery life and all that so I think is a great tablet is a great value and I think if your needs matchup what you saw here then this is a good choice I might be a really good thing to work especially to get for a child in school so I recommend that if it meets your criteria I'm still in a really have a preference for the iPad on the tablet side but I the computer this is a really nice inexpensive and very functional computer the salon site thanks what