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Re: Asus' Transformer Book T100

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Post by zmmmmm »

josteink wrote: post #25
zmmmmm wrote: post #23

Asus was previously touting a Transformer Book Trio which ran both Android and Windows 8. It appears to have vanished from existence, and I now wonder heavily if they got a visit from the Microsoft legal or marketing department (as seems to have happened with the Ativ Q)?

I always thought it was because of lacking demand. I'm a former owner of the original Asus Transformer (Android-tablet + keyboard dock) and I still fail to see why I would want to have a device with two architectures, and two OSes. People love to talk about Android and fragmentation, much more so than I find constructive, but putting both Android and Windows in two different universes on the same device is pure madne…

> I'm curious as to why you think Microsoft's legal or marketing team would be opposed to this sort of product though

It's pure speculation that it is Microsoft, but it does seem to be a legal problem in the case of the Ativ Q (patents are mentioned but I'm not 100% it is really patents because some sources just say "legal problems"):

http://androidcommunity.com/samsung-ativ-q-hounded-by-patent...

Microsoft is famous for making agreements with OEMs constraining them from shipping other OSes instead of or in combination with Windows. Their motive seems very clear to me in that they would be desperate to prevent Android from rising into the laptop / netbook space. This kind of transition device could be very threatening in that regard.

Re: Asus' Transformer Book T100

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Post by mseebach »

RobAley wrote: post #30
zhte415 wrote: post #29

A personal peeve, and question. Peeve: I visit a lot of companies, and a lot of my works involves displaying a presentation or video. Modern offices' projectors almost exclusively use a VGA cable. A few more modern offices, re-fitted in the past 2-3 years, do have projectors with HDMI ports, but there's rarely a cable as the laptops they use have VGA cables, usually the laptops are ThinkPads. Question: Why has a VGA…

Size.

+ the fact that HDMI, DVI and DisplayPort, besides being technically far superior to VGA, are backwards compatible with VGA through a cheap adaptor.

Re: Asus' Transformer Book T100

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Post by AlisdairO »

josteink wrote: post #26
kyriakos wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

6 years later I hardly ever plug in my laptop - its wifi all the way. No ARM based tablets that I know of have an ethernet port, and I don't see anyone complaining about it.

6 years later I hardly ever plug in my laptop - its wifi all the way. For daily stuff, sure. When I need to shift gigs and gigs of media or VMs or whatever though: Cabled is the only way. It's the only thing which is reliable enough to not make me tear my hair out and for stuff like this performance really matters. Especially when it's orders of magnitude faster. To some people, not having a physical ethernet port se…

Technical people may not be their biggest market, but they do have a sizable percentage of the technical-person demographic.

I use an old macbook (that has an ethernet port). When it comes time to replace it I'll buy a dongle with the new one, and on the relatively rare cases I actually need it use that. I can't really imagine it ever being a significant issue to me.

Re: Asus' Transformer Book T100

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Post by bretkoppel »

makeramen wrote: post #22

How is the Linux compatibility with transforming/dock computers like this? This would make one hell of a portable dev machine.

Not the same, but I was already imagining carrying a microSD card around with a Linux VM on it for portable dev. I enjoy the native Win8 experience, though.

Edit: Of course, this[1] thread seems to indicate that microSD might not be fast enough, in which case I'd have to fall back to the USB3 port. Either way, not a terrible solution.

[1] http://superuser.com/questions/492182/using-a-microsd-card-a...

Re: Asus' Transformer Book T100

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Post by rayiner »

schuke wrote: post #7

I want this with a MS Surface design. I don't mind paying 200 dollars more. It would then match the iPad in terms design and surpass it in practicality.

You won't see bay trail in surface because MS feels the need to justify Win RT. They'll let market segmentation drive the product design. They will rationalize this by saying that Apple has segmentation with iOS versus OS X but ignore the difference which is that iOS is compelling on its own while RT is not.

Re: Asus' Transformer Book T100

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Post by farresito »

drill_sarge wrote: post #33

I won't buy because of the horrible experience I had with the ASUS support who refused to repair 2 laptops which clearly had manufacturing deficits within warranty. never again.

Unfortunately, this happens with all the major companies. I've heard a lot of people talk about the wonders of ASUS support and other people about how bad it is. ASUS is probably one of the best companies out there in terms of design quality (at least, I've never had any problem with them). Sorry about the bad experience.
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