[colug-432] to get a tablet

[Vince Herried]

The ASUS transformer prim has had some complaints because of the metal
case.  GPS not so great.
the Prim 2 is supposed to fix that.

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Sent from anything but an apple iXXX.

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Shane Zatezalo <lottadot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Someone brought the Transformer 2 to our last NSCoder night. It was
> impressive, and quite fast compared to the other Android tablets that were
> there. If I were going to write an Android-tablet app and needed an Android
> tablet to test with I'd not hesitate to purchase it. That would, however,
> be my only use for it ATM.
>
> We have iPad's (my wife and myself) and love them. In-fact I just ordered
> two of the new ones to replace ours. She uses hers for everything, hardly
> ever uses her laptop. I use mine for everything except writing code. If
> I've got to do development, graphic design, server maintenance (term/ssh),
> whatever, I will generally use a laptop or workstation (multi-monitors++).
> I find creating a lot of content on the tablets to be more difficult then a
> good laptop. But each iteration of tablet devices and their OS's seems to
> lessen that.
>
> Shane
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 10, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Travis Hines <mthines at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have the asus Transformer with the dock, and I love it.  I got a heck of
> a deal on it for black friday last year, so I can't speak to the typical
> cost of them; I spent less than 400 for the tablet and dock.  The
> transformer 2 is out as well, so I also can't speak to the availability of
> the original.
>
> I use the tablet for web surfing, reading (love the kindle app), gaming,
> and some videos. I have netflix (for now) for streaming video, and upnplay
> to connect to my mediatomb server internally.  Both work very well and I
> could connect the tablet to my tv if it didn't already have the same
> capabilities.
>
> Another advantage of this tablet is the storage expansion abilities.  The
> tablet itself has a micro SD slot to supplement the included 16GB.  The
> dock also has an SD slot as well as two usb ports.
> On Mar 10, 2012 10:15 AM, "Rick Troth" <rmt at casita.net> wrote:
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