2 in 1 convertible portables
If you've been paying attention to the mobile scene, then you've probably seen Asus' Transformer Book T100 coming from miles away. Asus planted the first seed with the Eee PC, which brought basic, highly portable Windows computing to the masses. Netbooks like the Eee PC sold for only a few hundred bucks, much less than the grand or more one had to pay for ultraportables of that era.The netbook craze burned brightly but briefly. Before long, the iPad arrived, spawning a tablet revolution that would have an even greater impact on the mobile PC industry. The first tablets were slimmer and sexier than netbooks. Thanks to intuitive touchscreen interfaces and fancy displays, they were also ideally suited to couch surfing and general media consumption—home turf for netbooks at the time.
Netbooks still had an edge for productivity, which really requires a keyboard and a precise mouse pointer, but tablets soon obliged with separate accessories. Asus opted for a more integrated approach; its first Transformer convertible combined a traditional tablet with a touchpad-equipped keyboard dock.
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The Transformer concept was refined over several generations of Android devices before finally jumping to Windows in the VivoTab RT. Although that system was ultimately hampered by its ARM-based OS, the VivoTab hinted at the potential for a comparable config based on the full version of Win8. Unfortunately, the x86 camp didn't really have anything capable of taking on the ARM-based titans of the tablet world. Intel's Clover Trail Atom came close, but it was ultimately held back by weak graphics and dated CPU cores.The latest Bay Trail Atom chip is far more potent, and it's been joined by a Win8.1 update that promises a more refined version of the touch-friendly Windows formula. Those developments apparently set the mood just right for the Eee PC and Transformer to produce their first true offspring: the Transformer Book T100.
Even though the Eee PC and Transformer have long been on a collision course, Asus still managed one surprise: the T100's starting price. That's incredibly cheap for an honest-to-goodness Win8.1 convertible with a 10" IPS display, a quad-core Bay Trail SoC, 32GB of flash storage, and a touchpad-infused keyboard dock with USB 3.0 connectivity.
The T100's secondary component is draped in matte plastics that seem largely immune to smudging. The top piece covering the keyboard tray and palm rests has a lightly brushed texture, while the underbelly sports a soft-touch finish. Both surfaces hold up much better than the glossy plastic.
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