Comments on: New ASUS Transformer 2 Available November 7th?

By: william

william — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:44:00 +0000

cool that the new asus transformer is coming out the 7th of noverber but my question on that is how much will it coast when it hits the market so please let me no thank you

By: Drew McEachern

Drew McEachern — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:54:00 +0000

I agree with Steve Hawk. I bought my Transformer November 9 and it does everything I want. I’m very pleased with it and would definitely recommend it.

By: Cucabueno

Cucabueno — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:27:00 +0000

ok so mine came on. What do I do now?

By: Finire

Finire — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:17:00 +0000

With this on the board, it makes the Xoom 2 release look even less promising. Thanks Moto for letting us down.

By: Qbrisco

Qbrisco — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:14:00 +0000

Yay does this mean the original will go down to $199? Maybe $99?

By: Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:47:00 +0000

I agree with you! I think 2GB of RAM would be very good. I run heavy business apps and I run into RAM issues all the time. I guess most people don’t use big application like I do. Here are the apps that I run, try it and see if your Bionic doesn’t start freezing up with all these running simultaneously. .

Executive Assistant Pro, Juice Defender, Swiftkey, Titanium Backup, Dropbox, Evernote, lookout security are just my basic business apps. I have alot more.

So I agree that we should have more RAM for future tablets, haven’t they learned a lesson from the netbooks?

By: Jelement111

Jelement111 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:37:00 +0000

He’s bike-curious

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:20:00 +0000

Or it could be they don’t want the information leaked.

By: Raven

Raven — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:12:00 +0000

For one thing it is more than just the quad core, Kal-El supposedly also has much better power efficiency than the current generation of chips. So, not only would have twice the processing power, you could also have twice the battery life, and that means a lot more to me than the higher number of cores.

The other thing is you have to realize, unlike Apple, there is not one big “They”. ASUS/Samsung/Motorola/Texas Instruments whoever producing faster more power efficient hardware has nothing to do with Google/Android/thousands of independent developers producing better software.

There is no argument that big title games from Sony and Nintendo are better than most Android games, but that has more to do with monopolies and politics than anything. Imagine if Sony developed an Android tablet and started making its big name franchises for Android tablets, then we would see some games.

Until then, if you actually have a Tegra based tablet like the Transformer check out the TegraZone market. There are some pretty decent games in there. I would hate to admit how many hours I have already put into Galaxy on Fire II HD and would put it up against any similar genre games on other hardware.

By: jbonics

jbonics — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:44:00 +0000

When it drops I will have a new asus tf for sale $250

By: JinY

JinY — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:10:00 +0000

The quad core processor takes care of issues concerning full hi def media files, which tegra 2 could not handle (full 1080p). Additionally, the quad core (actually 5 cores) uses less power and increases battery life. To me, the tegra 3 is the perfect jump for me to get a tablet, since I don’t have to bother converting video files, etc.

By: Raven

Raven — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:00:00 +0000

From what I have read there are 2 versions of the internal hardware that cannot be told apart from the outside by serial number or anything. The older innards had the problem of not letting it go into deep sleep mode, the newer ones don’t.

There is supposedly a very easy test that you can do which is to dock it and turn off the screen, then press a single key. If that turns the screen on you have the problem. Mine does not and I have not noticed any problems with it. If you have the problem, supposedly you can send it in and they will fix it for free (not sure about shipping).

By: Luis Rojas

Luis Rojas — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:46:00 +0000

Question for all that own the Transformer with the dock. Are the horror stories I’ve read regarding the battery in the laptop dock true? Or is it a minimal amount of people who have experienced this?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:41:00 +0000

More than 1gig Ram will not be necessary until the software reaches the need for better multitasking. The same thing goes for a quad core, not necessary at this moment. Quad cores aren’t even really needed in laptops.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:39:00 +0000

What can a quad core do for me? I am pretty sure that Android needs to work on the software side of things when it comes to tablets. A laptop still has software light years ahead of any tablet. They need to stop worrying about specs so much and concentrate on getting things like advanced image/sound/web/video editing on these tablets so they can be useful tools and not just toys.Not to mention they need some better games. The games for these tablets pretty much suck compared to a psp,3ds, or laptop.