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[dkellis]

The choice of tablets has pretty much been narrowed down to the iPad 2 (or, with an outside chance, the iPad 3; both seem to be more or less the same deal for the purpose of this comparison), or the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime.

iPad Pro:- Support. Lots and lots of support. If not from relatives, then the Apple Store taking up floor space of the

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[bunny_m]

I recently purchased a TF Prime for myself, complete with keyboard dock from eBay for ~$AU800 all inclusive. Shipped from Taiwan with no issues. (This is the 16gb version, the 32gb version was less that $200AU more, mind.)

Note: The TF Prime comes with the Tegra-4 quad-core processor, and seems ridiculously overpowered for any of the apps I've tried out so far.

I'm not hugely crazy about the Asus pre-installed apps, and really wish I could uninstall some of them, but it hasn't bugged me enough to research how to rot the thing and install something more customisable yet.

I've yet to find an app that doesn't run on it, or has any issues at all apart from being a fairly obviously poorly written app.

On first boot it advised of a firmware update, which took maybe 20s, then advised there was another one, which took another maybe 30s, and then it was running Ice Cream Sandwich, just that painlessly.

I love it and I'm finding myself using it a lot. I heartily endorse the TF Prime.

- I am wary about the reputation for the iPad to be

[dkellis]

Thus far the TF Prime sounds perfect for what I want, which has generally made me a little suspicious, because it sounds too perfect and I'm not sure if there's something I'm overlooking.

Also it's the nagging question of why, if something this good is available, I have not heard about it until very recently in the "let's get you a tablet" recommendations (which were mostly IPAD IPAD IPAD).

I'm leaning very heavily towards the TF Prime, but I just want to make sure that it is as good as it sounds.

[bunny_m]

Well, I suspect the reason so many discussions about tablets default to the iPad is because they are a very large part of the market, coupled with the media's utter fscking obsession with all things Apple. *spit*

(This comment entered from my TF Prime. The delay in reply was checking my password for LJ, rather than anything else.)