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Oct 7 2011 09:49am
With Thanksgiving coming this weekend all the Tech shops in Canada are giving their annual sales on their stuff and I'm trying to pick up a decent Tablet.

Can anyone recommend me a decent Tablet to pick up and roughly what price the value would be good at?


My main purpose of the Tablet will be:
  • Web Browsing
  • Media (Movies, Music, Games)
  • Documents (Word Processing, Excel for school/work)
  • Replacing my laptop completely (Going to get a Desktop for home and Tablet as portable use)


www.futureshop.ca
www.bestbuy.ca

two main sites you guys could help reference to.
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Oct 7 2011 07:20pm
Asus Transformer - [URL]http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_TF101/[/URL]. My work bought me one (with everyone else getting iPad2's) and I am quite content on being able to do more productive things with mine.

The special part of this tablet is that it can be purchased with a detachable dock (see picture).

The thing with 10" tablets, 7" tablets, 4.x" phones, netbooks, laptops, is that most the time you can only do so many things conveniently on each formfactor. While any tablet can do browsing and media, not every one will be great for doing documents or random other misc tasks that would be close to a laptop replacement. Personally, I start to lose it when I have to type on a touchscreen for more than a sentence at a time. With the Transformer dock, you can basically switch between a fairly light tablet for viewing/browsing/reading, and what is basically a netbook with a physical keyboard. The dock extends the battery life to about 12+ hours of continual use, and it's got USB slots. You can grab the 16GB version and throw in a (16 or 32GB) microSD card for cheap for even more storage.

And to do literally "everything else" you can do with a real computer, just grab a remote desktop app (Splashtop HD for example) and you can just work heavier processing tasks on your desktop machine.

This post was edited by Kold on Oct 7 2011 07:21pm
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Quote (Kold @ Oct 7 2011 09:20pm)
Asus Transformer - http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_TF101/. My work bought me one (with everyone else getting iPad2's) and I am quite content on being able to do more productive things with mine.

The special part of this tablet is that it can be purchased with a detachable dock (see picture).

The thing with 10" tablets, 7" tablets, 4.x" phones, netbooks, laptops, is that most the time you can only do so many things conveniently on each formfactor. While any tablet can do browsing and media, not every one will be great for doing documents or random other misc tasks that would be close to a laptop replacement. Personally, I start to lose it when I have to type on a touchscreen for more than a sentence at a time. With the Transformer dock, you can basically switch between a fairly light tablet for viewing/browsing/reading, and what is basically a netbook with a physical keyboard. The dock extends the battery life to about 12+ hours of continual use, and it's got USB slots. You can grab the 16GB version and throw in a (16 or 32GB) microSD card for cheap for even more storage.

And to do literally "everything else" you can do with a real computer, just grab a remote desktop app (Splashtop HD for example) and you can just work heavier processing tasks on your desktop machine.


I was actually looking at this exact tablet.
It was recommended to me because it comes with a detachable keyboard which literally takes up as little room as a netbook would.

Any other product suggestions or comments regarding this product??
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Oct 8 2011 02:02pm
Transformer 2 is supposed to be coming out "soon". It shinier, and will end up pushing down price of the first edition @ retailers. Not sure if you want to wait that long. There have been pretty sweet deals time to time on both ($399 a few weeks ago for 16GB + dock), so look for bundle sale.
ASUS is pretty quick on their updates, so the Honeycomb -> Ice cream Sandwich update will happen pretty quickly for the TF1.

HDMI out is nice, you can use it as a portable media player to TVs (need mini HDMI to HDMI converter). Slightly older models of the TF101 are rootable, so you can overclock it etc.

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Oct 10 2011 09:53am
Quote (Kold @ Oct 8 2011 04:02pm)
Transformer 2 is supposed to be coming out "soon". It shinier, and will end up pushing down price of the first edition @ retailers. Not sure if you want to wait that long. There have been pretty sweet deals time to time on both ($399 a few weeks ago for 16GB + dock), so look for bundle sale.
ASUS is pretty quick on their updates, so the Honeycomb -> Ice cream Sandwich update will happen pretty quickly for the TF1.

HDMI out is nice, you can use it as a portable media player to TVs (need mini HDMI to HDMI converter). Slightly older models of the TF101 are rootable, so you can overclock it etc.


I'd like to see the Transformer 2 before jumping to anything :P
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