Have a TF101 aswell, is the keyboard dock worth it? Is it easy to type with? Probably going to use my TF when I start college this fall.
It's worth it in a sense that the tablet can emulate a laptop in terms of productivity, one of my main gripes of a tablet is that it's a stepping stone between a phone and a laptop that doesn't really need to exist other than to be "fun" and possibly easier to use, the transformers keyboard resolves this, obviously you don't get the software you'd usually find on a laptop (however apps are quickly shortening this gap) but it's definitely a step in the right direction. You could probably get a bluetooth or USB keyboard and use it with any tablet though, you wouldn't have the same synergy or readiness with the transformers keyboard though.
If you want to do anything serious on a tablet you'll need a keyboard.
I got the bluetooth keyboard and mouse for my xoom and I actually use it for C++ development, but only for small shit
[QUOTE=Keegs;34799107]Have a TF101 aswell, is the keyboard dock worth it? Is it easy to type with? Probably going to use my TF when I start college this fall.[/QUOTE]
I bought my TF101 with the dock, and have to say that it was the bit that sold the deal on it. I don't think that the on-screen keyboard is bad, as such, but the keyboard is just sublime - I normally hate laptop style keyboards but this chicklet design is really nice on the fingers, and pretty much as good as my desktop keyboard. (so 80 WPM or so with high accuracy in a dodgy typing style that originated from using my dominant hand to type.)
I don't think I'd have bought the transformer without the keyboard, it's an average tablet without (comparable to all others, but beaten by a few) but it becomes my favourite tablet of the lot with it.
Yeah, I would love to trade my Xoom for a TF101 w/ dock, but I'm still happy with what I have.
I woke up on top of my Xoom today, she was still truckin' along fine after my fat ass was digging my shoulderblade into her.
I've heard that for the last gen tablets the Xoom has the best QC rivalled probably by the GT10.1. With the worst QC of the good tablets being on Asus' behalf (creaking, flexing, etc.) But the TF101 has an IPS panel and the Xoom has TN so... take your pick, each one has an advantage.
I had to take my TF back 2 times, once for several dead pixels, and the second time there was severe light bleed, dead pixels, and dust under the screen. Got my money back, went to PC World and got a Xoom, I've had no problems with it since buying.
Also managed to get the free xoom keyboard+mouse.
My xoom has a stuck pixel, but it's way in the corner and isn't noticeable.
It's also refurbished so I didn't expect a perfect model.
I also bought the keyboard for $40 w/ the mouse free. It's so fantastic.
The keyboard is excellent, I'd use it for my main PC if it had windows keys.
Have you figured out what the key in the top right is for? It has three horizontal lines on it. I could never get it to do anything, and the booklet didn't help either.
I think it's app settings
I use the TF101 with the dock for school, and it works perfect for it. Springpad app w/ widgets for notes, DocumentsToGo (or polaris if you don't want to spend $15) for word processing, etc. The OS is designed to be used with touch, but it still works well enough with the trackpad and typing.
If I need to finish something up like a paper I just take what I did on my TF and then transfer it to my computer to finish up with stuff like headers/footers, etc.
I don't have a laptop or netbook, so it basically works just like a netbook, priced like a netbook, etc... except it has 15 hours of battery life, a touch screen (whcih is actually really nice for browsing and using, even when docked), a really good looking IPS screen, and the ability to undock it into a tablet for casual reading/browsing/watching/etc in bed.
If I was a school teacher, electronics (even and especially phones) would be banned from my classroom. It's school, not play time. This includes tablets and laptops. The school provides a computer lab for doing homework and typing papers. The library also has computers to use. There's no need to bring your own.
[QUOTE=P320;34827600]If I was a school teacher, electronics (even and especially phones) would be banned from my classroom. It's school, not play time. This includes tablets and laptops. The school provides a computer lab for doing homework and typing papers. The library also has computers to use. There's no need to bring your own.[/QUOTE]
This is dumb. School computers are arbitrarily hard to use, slow, and restrictive. If I bring in my own laptop, I don't have to jump through a million hoops to do something simple like print a word document.
Besides, I have horror stories of Word freezing on school computers when I was trying to print, and losing pages of data.
You're also making the assumption that everyone who brings their own devices is off-task. I bring my tablet to class daily and it's actually very nice to take notes on.
My college makes extensive use of these crappy VNC clients hooked up to a single server, they are pretty much impossible to use and I would far prefer to bring my own computer in.
Yeah, we have shitty boxes hooked up to a VNC at my college and the cursor lag and complete packet loss every minute is about as bad as it gets.
[QUOTE=P320;34827600]If I was a school teacher, electronics (even and especially phones) would be banned from my classroom. It's school, not play time. This includes tablets and laptops. The school provides a computer lab for doing homework and typing papers. The library also has computers to use. There's no need to bring your own.[/QUOTE]
Because I type 4 times faster than I can write whilst being infinitely neater and keeping my hand clean, and school computers are pieces of shit that can barely run W7, let alone office at the same time.
You'd also be depriving your students of the greatest source of information in existence, which is a pretty fucking stupid thing for a [b]teach[/b]er to be doing, hmm? If people want to fuck around, let them, ignore them, and teach the ones who are learning, as opposed to acting like a Luddite.
[QUOTE=P320;34827600]If I was a school teacher, electronics (even and especially phones) would be banned from my classroom. It's school, not play time. This includes tablets and laptops. The school provides a computer lab for doing homework and typing papers. The library also has computers to use. There's no need to bring your own.[/QUOTE]
I'm going to assume you are in gradeschool because about 60% of any given university student will have a laptop and most of the time use it in lectures/classrooms for notes, because they let you focus on the lecture material better (generally you can't write and focus on the lecture slides at the same time).
Sure you get the dipshits who just play games on mute in the middle of class but who cares? They can fail if they want to, it's their money.
Is anyone else with a Xoom having issues with ICS causing it to reboot itself
Notion Ink Adam currently waiting for the ICS ROM to be up to scratch and a 32gb firesale Touchpad.
Also have a Dell Latitude XT3 for university, if you count convertibles as tablets. OneNote + Active digitiser = lecture notes sorted.
I have a Viewsonic Gtab running Honeycomb
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This is just a generic image of it, and obviously not running honeycomb in the picture. When I got it, it had a really crappy viewsonic android OS on it.
[QUOTE=Adelle Zhu;34884680]Is anyone else with a Xoom having issues with ICS causing it to reboot itself[/QUOTE]
I had the issue about 3-4 times, but after that it just stopped happening, and hasn't happened since.
I haven't had it ever, and I started with the first version of Eos nightlies, updating every 10 into the current stable ROM.
we need to revive this thread. Has anyone rooted their android tablets?
Can anybody recommend a good starter tablet?
One for drawing stuff on the computer.
I heard Bamboo is a decent starting company, and preferably cheap also.
Anyone in the UK fancy buying my Motorola Xoom?
Just got a Nexus tablet, can't wait. Sucks that it charges £10 for delivery but beggars can't be choosers.
[QUOTE=Noss;37001213]Anyone in the UK fancy buying my Motorola Xoom?
Just got a Nexus tablet, can't wait. [b]Sucks that it charges £10 for delivery[/b] but beggars can't be choosers.[/QUOTE]
This is why I bought mine from tesco and got it for £189 because I found a discount code online.
[QUOTE=CDeansy;37005493]This is why I bought mine from tesco and got it for £189 because I found a discount code online.[/QUOTE]
Went for the 8gb model, Tesco doesn't stock those unfortunately. Don't really need much storage, I stream most of my content.
Managed to talk myself into getting a Nexus 7 - (well, didn't really need talking into that much - hehe)
(excuse the photos - xperia s is the closest thing to a camera i have at the mo)
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pretty impressed tbh - the £15 free play store credit was a nice touch though - Thanks Google :3
I want mine nooooooooooooow :(
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