ASUS announces the Tranformer AiO, PC and tablet runs Windows 8 and Android

16. samsunggalaxylover posted on 09 Mar 2013, 10:10 0

why didn't they include a tegra 4 instead of tegra 3???????

5. JonBjSig posted on 07 Mar 2013, 02:57 9

Overpriced?
You have to realize these are actually two computers, a tablet and a PC which link together, both of which have pretty good specs.
Plus an 18.4" FullHD touch display.

7. nikenturd (unregistered) posted on 07 Mar 2013, 03:04 2

Tegra 3 doesnt sound good to my ears....heck it was never THAT good .... And on the PC side...ugh....where is the dedicated graphics card? $1200 seems a lot for what this thing offers.

11. JonBjSig posted on 07 Mar 2013, 05:37 3

Tegra 3 is ok, 2GB of RAM is the most you'll find on tablets today and 32GB of storage is decent.
Then the PC side, an i5, 8GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, I can't find exactly what GPU they're using but I have found that it is a discrete graphics processor and it has 1GB of VRAM.
And good displays are expensive.
When you consider those specs with a fair profit margin it doesn't seem all that overpriced, not to me at least.

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13. -box- posted on 07 Mar 2013, 08:46 0

Not quite. For the same money you could get a desktop PC with a a small touch-enabled monitor, or a decent AIO, or a number of Ultrabook convertibles (my preference would be the Asus Tai Chi), or a combination of desktop, tablet, and laptop, but then you're using multiple devices instead of one. It is about $100-300 more than I would want to pay for the same setup, but you pay for the seamless integration and elegant functionality. I personally would like the large tablet function, especially with all the folks using 7-8" tablets now.
It's vastly cheaper than an apple desktop and tablet, by at least $500, and the apple desktop wouldn't have touch.

12. -box- posted on 07 Mar 2013, 08:39 0

Not possible. You're trying to run x86/x64 on mobile hardware. Not compatible, and the components wouldn't be up to the task. Better to just get a cheaper Windows 8 tab. You can get a Remote Desktop app and run the PC from your device, but don't expect blistering speeds or being able to do any real gaming; Solitaire, sure, Crysis, no.

Ideally, if one wants the best of both worlds, get a Windows touch device, and install BlueStacks or similar on it as a JVM running the latest version of Android.

8. nikenturd (unregistered) posted on 07 Mar 2013, 03:23 0

Plus its not even an IPS panel, its a damn jaggy LED