Case, Display, Haptics, Dock

ASUS equipped the Eee Pad Transformer with a casing made of plastics and aluminium which provides the tablet with good stability. The color ASUS chose, once again shows that the Transformer should stand out of the crowd. They're calling the brown their using "Espresso". What we didn't like too much is that the backside has been caved a bit. On the other hand there is the surface with its geometric pattern that offer good grip.





The display comes with 10.1 inch size and 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. This means that you get 16 : 9 aspect ratio which makes it suitable to watch a video on the go. Furthermore the screen supports ten finger multitouch and thanks to the LED backlit IPS panel which is being used you get very nice contrast ratio and brightness. ASUS also makes use of so called Gorilla Glass which withstands quite a lot of torture as the video above shows.



Also the different buttons as well as the additional ports are very well built and they perfectly fit into the case.

Dock

The best thing about the Eee Pad Transformer is that you have the possibility to convert this thing from a tablet to a netbook within seconds. Using the dock you can then comfortably write even longer texts. For this purpose you get a QWERTY-keyboard and last but not least there also is second battery pack in the dock. According to the manufacturer you can get up to sixteen hours of battery life if you have the tablet in the dock.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 6 - AnTuTu CPU and Graphics
Page 2 - Preview	Page 7 - AnTuTu Database and Memory Subsystem
Page 3 - Specifications	Page 8 - Vellamo Webbrowsing
Page 4 - Case, Display, Haptics, Dock	Page 9 - Battery Life
Page 5 - Test Setup	Page 10 - Conclusion

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