Why asus transformer

Let's admit it: carrying both a tablet and a laptop is a nuisance. The It's a simple idea that's elegant and convenient, too. Need to work? It's a powerful laptop. Time to relax? Detach the keyboard and it's a handy tablet. No fuss, no hassle. With a lid finished in ultra-cool anodized aluminum, THA is not just designed to make a style statement. At just 8. Detach the tablet to work and play anywhere, and dock to enjoy the comfortable keyboard, smart gesture-enabled touchpad and advanced connectivity.

Style, power and convenience — Transformer Book T gives you it all! KeyboardI connectivity is great for connecting a larger external display or even TV, meaning you can share presentations during your work meeting or stream movies with family and friends. Transformer Book T is sleek, slim and also light — just And when need to travel even lighter, detach the With a battery that lasts up to 11 hours, you're free to work or play from dawn to dusk.

With full, unlimited versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote preinstalled, Transformer Book T is ready to help you with work or school from the moment you switch it on! If you think you know beautiful, behold Transformer Book T's With a ratio, x pixel HD resolution and in-plane switching IPS technology, you'll enjoy bright, vivid images from literally any angle — that's degrees of viewing clarity!

Transformer Book T responds immediately to your every touch, with an incredibly precise touchscreen for easy fingertip control of Windows and apps. The back of the tablet, which forms the lid in notebook mode, is finished in grey with Asus branding prominent and two pinhole speaker grilles barely visible. The docking mechanism is firm. Tablet and keyboard are joined simply by pushing the tablet into the docking mechanism, and are easily separated by pressing a large button sitting front and centre between screen and keyboard.

This unlocks the connection, allowing you to pull the tablet free. Earlier, and more expensive, Android-based Transformer models had metal cases, but plastic is used abundantly here.

The build feels quite solid for all that — there is some flex in the tablet back, but it's minimal and we've seen worse from some regular notebooks. We weren't troubled by slowdowns or glitches during everyday use, but if you're considering this as an everyday Windows 8 machine, it's worth bearing in mind that it's not really up to more demanding workloads.

And with just 2GB of non-expandable RAM on board, it won't cope well running too many applications at the same time. Storage is also less than you'd expect to get from a notebook, with a mere 7. That's less than many smartphones have available, and obviously nowhere near what you'll get with a standard notebook.

It clearly won't be enough for a professional user intent on installing a range of apps and storing key data on the device. There are, of course, plenty of cloud storage options, including Asus's own WebStorage, which provides free unlimited storage for a year, and Microsoft's preinstalled OneDrive formerly SkyDrive.

As noted above, the USB slot can also be used to add external local storage. For wireless connectivity there's and Wi-Fi There's no Ethernet either, and the range of ports and connectors, while fine by tablet standards, is below what you'd expect from even a mediocre notebook.

The single USB 3. Apart from the USB port, all connectors and controls are on the tablet section, allowing it to function independently of the keyboard dock. The left side has a volume rocker and the power switch. It's great to see standard USB used for charging rather than a proprietary connector, incidentally. Windows 8. Its presence means that you can start being productive without adding anything at all to the initial purchase price. Cortana is your personal digital assistant that you can command with your voice.

And with the array microphone in ASUS Transformer Pro, background noise is reduced so your voice is captured clearly from any direction, giving accurate voice recognition and recording.

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