Asus Transformer TF101

I have been thinking of trying a tablet computer for sometime.  I'm not a total noob to the market as I do own an IPad but as something of a geek i have always found the nanny slate something of a let down.  Like any child tell me not to touch just makes me want to get past the fireguard.  I like the fact that I can turn of nagging nanny and download software from any source I see fit. 

First impressions are very good indeed.  Yesterday I ran the tablet for 16 hours some of the time I used the keyboard doc the rest of the time I just used the tablet on its own.  I was very pleased to find out that there is a button for turning off the touch pad while typing.  Great feature wish I had it on my Wintel Workhorse,  I can disable the Wintel one with drivers but corperate IT will not let me install them, I need to fix my posture it appears. 

I have been a fan of documents to go for a while, it came with my Blackberry and I have used it on the IPad and now Android.  It worked perfectly and in short order I had two gig of my active documents synced with the PC. 

I used DVDGalexy to convert a couple of DVD's so I could watch them on the device this was very easy and fast to do.  I was going to put them on a MicroSD and shove it in the side of the unit but found it was just as easy to download directly to the MicroSD via Windows 7, simple drag and drop. The device has a MicroSD in the tablet itself and a full SD plus dual USB's in the dock.

Next was to get Wireshark for Andriod up and working.  Did not have high expectations but it was much better than I had expected, so the device was meeting my nerdy expectations a result.

Skype was a little annoying, voice quality is perfect the system worked perfectly with the Bose Headset from my Blackberry and with the Seinheiser C550 that I use for everything in the office, the annoyance came with the fact it does not work with either of the video cameras in the unit.  That lead me trying out Google Talk which gave a good result, just wish a few more of my buddies used it.

Installed Angry Birds and a Pinball game designed to work with the Tegra2 nice and smooth graphics not had time to play with it but seems to be very nice.

Overall a very nice little device it cost a ton of money but so far its been worth it, I'm sure in a few months it will have lost its shine but for now I'm a happy camper.