When Apple’s Power Mac G4 came out it was classified
as a super computer. It had dual-processors!
What would the people
of the past have made of this tablet computer,
which is the first
to have a quad-core processor?
as a super computer. It had dual-processors!
What would the people
of the past have made of this tablet computer,
which is the first
to have a quad-core processor?
On paper this absolutely blows all other tablets out of the water. Besides being the first to use NVIDIA’s new quad-core (plus one) Tegra 3 a.k.a. Kal-El processor (click here for an amazing demo of what it can do), it looks gorgeous. The original Asus Eee Pad Transformer was one of the most popular Android tablets of the year, but it was thick and boxy—just sort of a big, boring rectangle. The Transformer Prime is way more attractive. They’ve swapped out the cheap plastic back for some very nice looking aluminum with a swirl pattern. It is extremely thin and light: 8.3mm (or 0.33 inches) and 586 grams (1.29 pounds), which is slightly thinner and lighter than the iPad 2, despite the Prime’s screen being larger by 0.4 inches (10.1 versus 9.7 on the iPad 2). Speaking of the screen, it’s a Super IPS+ display (at 1280×800) under Gorilla Glass and has a 178-degree viewing-angle and some proprietary tech that supposedly makes it much brighter. The original Transformer and the Eee Pad Slider both had pretty ho-hum screens, so this is a welcomed upgrade.
And yes, it’s a Transformer Pad, so you know it’s got a keyboard dock (sold separately). We liked the original, but this new dock will be thinner and sport an aluminum casing with a revised metallic swirl pattern to match the Prime unit. Touch-screen typing has grown by leaps and bounds, but when you’ve got to pound out some serious emails there’s no substitute for a real keyboard.
