Asus T100 owners thread

djxput said:
I 'think' the @ " $ tend to be different; Im from the states and prefer us keyboards but my dell laptop has a UK one ...

Im debating about this thing also ... was checking out the dell and ya might be a bit better but much more expensive ...
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Guys i have never bought laptop from UK. right now all my laptops are with US keyboards. don't let this stop you.
I am getting one from US comes to J30 more for the 64gb with tax and shipping.
Warranty i believe now days is 1y from manufacture and 2y EU.
 
funguST said:
I just hear so many bad things about windows 8 which puts me off.
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I had Win8 on a Latitude 10 tablet for a week. I'm not particularly impressed by the touch interface for normal desktop use... it looked and felt rather cobbled together (ugly little boxes appearing around icons to let you know you'd selected them) but that's always going to be a problem for desktop use, which is why the Metro thing exists.

However it was absolutely fantastic to finally have truly portable PC capable of doing anything my desktop machine... albeit slowly! If I'd had it for longer I'm sure I'd have settled on a pattern of Metro use when doing the normal simple tablety things (browsing, wasting time with sinple games, twitter, and so on) while having instant access to a 'normal' PC environment whenever I needed it.

It was such a refreshing change form messing about with Android or the iPad. Both my Nexus7 and iPad3 have great advantages (portability for the N7 and that wonderful 4:3 screen for the iPad) but neither are a proper compliment to my desktop computing.

So although my Latitude 10 went back (no 3G connectivity as advertised & paid for) either a T100 or Venue 11 are firmly on my shopping list. I'd prefer the T100 but my Latitude experience showed me what I knew already... I hate 13x7 screen resolutions! The ratio just bugs me, especially on tablets, which I always seem to want to use in portrait mode. The 1080p Venue will be more acceptable, I hope, but the T100 is hard to ignore at that price.
 
cpam said:
Guys i have never bought laptop from UK. right now all my laptops are with US keyboards. don't let this stop you.
I am getting one from US comes to J30 more for the 64gb with tax and shipping.
Warranty i believe now days is 1y from manufacture and 2y EU.
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Bargain harder - my US 64GB cost me LESS than a UK 32GB...

Might be a bit trickier now given how short rare they are in the US now I guess.
 
Just wondering - how bad is the keyboard?

Missus is in the market for a new machine, and she loves my Surface 2 Pro, but doesn't like the pricetag, nor does she like the price tag of current Apples (which she's had up until now..) she doesn't do anything taxing, but does do a lot of typing.
 
MasterPlan1 said:
Just wondering - how bad is the keyboard?

Missus is in the market for a new machine, and she loves my Surface 2 Pro, but doesn't like the pricetag, nor does she like the price tag of current Apples (which she's had up until now..) she doesn't do anything taxing, but does do a lot of typing.
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I just had a play with one at the local pc world ... my thoughts:

1. not the best viewing angles, screen res. wasnt too bad thou
2. tablet actually felt a bit small
3. keyboard felt decent as far as firmness etc ... but paper writing or something would prob be out.
4. the tablet looked a bit cheap and I know the pc world was was finicky - wouldnt bring up a keyboard in tablet form and some other things ...

going home for christmas in the states and was perhaps going to get one of these but after looking at one - Im highly doubting it now.
Dell one looks more interesting; even thou its pricier.
 
i don't know guys... i am confused. relay like and want one.. but
after playing with one at staples i think i will wait.
after 10min of browsing closing and opening apps the unit become very slow and sluggish.
then windows crashed and i could turn it back on....
:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:
 
MasterPlan1 said:
Just wondering - how bad is the keyboard?

Missus is in the market for a new machine, and she loves my Surface 2 Pro, but doesn't like the pricetag, nor does she like the price tag of current Apples (which she's had up until now..) she doesn't do anything taxing, but does do a lot of typing.
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It's not too bad, but it is cramped so I wouldn't recommend it for much typing. It's a shame because the 11.6" form factor manages a virtually full sized keyboard.

Unsure how it compares to the Dell Venue 11 as I've been able to try one yet. I was looking at the HP Pavillion 11 X2, as on paper it looks decent. Until I found that the battery life is a miserable 5½ hours max.
 
Reviews don't give you the actual feel of the device though, but they do offer a fairly decent 7day return policy provided you pay shipping.
 
From my time with the Dell Venue 11 Pro (admittedly only a few hours), it was a LOT heavier than the T100 (almost 50% heavier) and not as nice a shape to hold.

At £430 for the tablet alone, with no keyboard dock and no Office 2013 Home and Student its lousy value IMO.

The appeal for me of the T100 was that it was cheap and you got quite a lot for your money in terms of reasonable performance, a clamshell style dock and Office - to get the same from the Venue 11 Pro you're talking double the money (£430 + £160 + £99) to get a 1080p screen (yay, enter the world of ****** Windows DPI scaling), a removable battery (add more cost for an additional battery) and a SoC that's faster in terms of CPU performance, but slower in terms of GPU performance in my testing.
 
SOLD. Defo gunna pick one of these up in the UK in the sales. I can resist no longer. :p I'll pick something up on Boxing day to setup post turkey feasting.:D

I reckon with a few 64GB micro SD cards with installs on them of anything BIG i can make do with only OS and bits and pieces on-board. If i need some films when travelling they can stay on a external HDD via the USB.

As OcUK don't sell this i guess i can comment I spotted UK high street has already dropped to £329.00 with £25 windows store giftcard. Thats almost £300 so i'm in.:D Hopefully get a bit cheaper after Xmas too.
 
Good to see Orcs must Die 2 running native res so smoothly. :cool:

Its a GREAT time waster! :) How big is the install tho?:confused:

Can you get a steam install on the micro SD card easily?
 
7470MB for Orcs Must Die! 2, don't forget I have a 64GB model. :)

I did a lot of my earlier testing with an SSD in a USB caddy and Steam let me put a library on there to install games to, so can't see why it wouldn't allow an SD card.
 
Thorburn said:
7470MB for Orcs Must Die! 2, don't forget I have a 64GB model. :)

I did a lot of my earlier testing with an SSD in a USB caddy and Steam let me put a library on there to install games to, so can't see why it wouldn't allow an SD card.
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Thanks for the info. :)
 
Yeah you can use microSD card for steam library however theres no point in getting one of the super fast ones as my Sammy speeds are half of what they should be on the tablet. Googling about seem like a tablet problem rather than SD card. I should really test it on main pc. My choice was new iPad or t100 and I wouldn't change the Asus for the world. Just a shame some pc games need to use the odd keyboard key to function. Like escape to quit. Keyboard is a lot better than I expected. I have small hands so it won't bother me as much as others. Theres a fair amount of key travel and a reassuring thud with each press. I absolutely love mine.
 
spotted the 32gb + 500gb one at amazon.de for not a huge amount more than the uk 32gb one, just wondering if anyone who has one has opened up their keyboard dock to see if a hdd can be retrofitted? That would certainly be interesting :)
 
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