seremify007
Junior Member
Has anyone here tried using this?
After buying the Asus Transformer TA100 (http://www.asus.com/sg/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_Transformer_Book_T100TA/) I'm starting to get my head around Windows 8.1 as well as the touch screen interface. So far I've had a very "Meh" experience compare to dedicated tablets and whilst it's great to be able to run my legacy x86 applications (e.g. my security camera software) it hasn't been without it's hitches (e.g. UAC must be disabled for it to work, random crashes/restarts of an otherwise clean Windows installation). I have also come to appreciate the non-touch optimised interface of Windows when not using Metro which can be a real pain; and heck, even some games on the Microsoft Store/Xbox Store fail because they rely on similar gestures to what's used to pull out charms (e.g. Asphalt Overdrive and the swipe will activate the charms pane!). Even the web browser which is built for Metro (i.e. the IE one) feels very limiting/awkward to use as it's not intuitive. A minor frustration is my Xbox Live account on my 360 uses a different email to my "professional" Microsoft account which I use for Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, etc.... and there's no way to merge the two together as both have billing information and active subscriptions in them. What a pain!
In terms of what's good, the Atom quad-core CPU is surprisingly brisk at multitasking, and the very widescreen view can be awkward to hold but great to read on. I did enjoy being able to login using picture touch, and the automatic orientation changes when I rotate the tablet.
All in all, after a few days of use, I can see the pain and challenges Microsoft has with trying to merge a legacy platform with a tablet one. If I had to choose between this and the iPad Air with a keyboard combination, I'd go iPad 9 times out of 10.
After buying the Asus Transformer TA100 (http://www.asus.com/sg/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_Transformer_Book_T100TA/) I'm starting to get my head around Windows 8.1 as well as the touch screen interface. So far I've had a very "Meh" experience compare to dedicated tablets and whilst it's great to be able to run my legacy x86 applications (e.g. my security camera software) it hasn't been without it's hitches (e.g. UAC must be disabled for it to work, random crashes/restarts of an otherwise clean Windows installation). I have also come to appreciate the non-touch optimised interface of Windows when not using Metro which can be a real pain; and heck, even some games on the Microsoft Store/Xbox Store fail because they rely on similar gestures to what's used to pull out charms (e.g. Asphalt Overdrive and the swipe will activate the charms pane!). Even the web browser which is built for Metro (i.e. the IE one) feels very limiting/awkward to use as it's not intuitive. A minor frustration is my Xbox Live account on my 360 uses a different email to my "professional" Microsoft account which I use for Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, etc.... and there's no way to merge the two together as both have billing information and active subscriptions in them. What a pain!
In terms of what's good, the Atom quad-core CPU is surprisingly brisk at multitasking, and the very widescreen view can be awkward to hold but great to read on. I did enjoy being able to login using picture touch, and the automatic orientation changes when I rotate the tablet.
All in all, after a few days of use, I can see the pain and challenges Microsoft has with trying to merge a legacy platform with a tablet one. If I had to choose between this and the iPad Air with a keyboard combination, I'd go iPad 9 times out of 10.
