ASUS Transformer Book 12-Inch T200TA-C1-BL 2-in-1 Detachable Touchscreen Laptop, 4 GB RAM, 64 GB Storage

Wanted to get a tablet, and was doing hard research online and at best buy, & other stores to try the feel of different tablets out there. Here are some reasons why I chose this one over others. I have had this tablet now for three days.Pro's1. 4gb of ram. If you run full windows 8, AND use chrome a lot, the ram will help. The 2gb that most tablets have just doesn't cut it for full windows.2. Comfortable keyboard. All the other tablets 10 inch tablets, especially the t100 have CRAMPED keyboards. They are unusable if you have normal sized male hands, and can type fast. I didn't want to waste money on anything that I wasn't going to use, so the keyboard on the t200 feels nice and comfortable. The Toga 2 tablet magnets are weak and the keyboard falls off easy. The switch 11 keyboard can be a hassle to attatch to the tablet portion. The t200 one is perfect. Not too big, not too small. But then again, go out to stores and try them, it all depends on your hand size and how fast you type.3. Expandable storage. The t200 advertises 64gb, but only 46 of it is usable. I can't even imagine being on a tablet that advertised 32gb, as it would probably be nearly full from the get go. Either way, you can add an ssd to the keyboard dock, greatly expanding the storage of this device. Not to mention you can insert your own SD card as well.4. "Laptop" feel. I was looking at the surface 3, and the yoga tablet 2, and you can't hold it in your lap comfortably and type. With this, you can. Great for the bed, or the couch.5. Solid battery life for 4gb of ram and a z3795, and 11.6inch screen. Also, this doesn't charge through USB, so when you plug it in to charge, it charges FAST. Was close to getting the acer switch 11 for 30 dollars less, but it's battery life was half of what this was, putting it more in the "laptop" category, rather than a tablet.6. Great price. A surface 3 with 4gb of ram and the keyboard costs at least $730. Without the keyboard it's still 600 dollars. This costed me $429. No brainer there.7. For me, this is the size "sweet spot". 13inches is too big, 10 inches is too small. this 11.6 inch size works great.8. Asus products are well built.Possible Cons1. This tablet may be heavy for some. I'm a male personal trainer, so I have the arm and grip strength to carry this comfortably, but for some it may be too heavy.2. Screen resolution. This doesn't bother me considering it's not going to do anything graphically intensive. Everything else looks great.3. Limited gaming. Trying out older games now, but TF2, CSGO, CS Source, run OK up until there is a lot on the screen, then it dips into the teen fps range, making it unplayable. I would image anything 5+ years old would run OK. But then again, if you are buying a tablet expecting a good gaming experience, you're gonna have a bad time.

The ASUS T200 is working fine. It starts up quickly and is responsive. I have been using it about six weeks. My old HP laptop running Microsoft Vista from 7 years ago was so slow (how dated) and was the reason for upgrading. The tablet separates from the keyboard easily and is easy to put back. The weight of the tablet alone is fine; it seems a bit more than an iPad2, but it is a little bigger. The total weight of the keyboard and tablet is pretty light, much lighter than my laptop from seven years ago. The tablet is good for reading and watching videos. Also Windows 8.1 runs Flash videos without any problem, which the iPad and Android devices do not do (in order to conserve the battery I think). Running on the battery alone has been fine for me, although I have only used it for a couple of hours at a time this way. I suppose the specs for running on the battery are accurate.Here are some things that bothered me initially, although I have found ways to work around the problems.* The touch pad would behave erratically at random times. The pinch and zoom feature would activate unexpected and items could be selected unexpectedly. I accidentally sent an email because of this.My solution is to disable the touch pad area above the left and right click areas, except to allow two-finger vertical and horizontal scrolling:Go the Desktop.Select the Hidden Icons on Task Bar > Select ASUS Smart GesturesOn General Gesture Tab, tick only Two Finger Scrolling. All the other check boxes are unticked.Note that the pinch and zoom feature on the screen still works fine, it is just the pinch and zoom on the touch pad that is disabled.* Old Microsoft Works documents (.wps files) cannot be viewed or edited on the notebook. This is a Windows 8.1 restriction, not really a problem with the notebook. If you purchase a personal or home Microsoft Office Live subscription for about $100 a year you can deal with the .wps files. If you need the power of the Office Suite, this seems reasonable, but is costly just to edit simple documents.My solution is to use Google Docs, which is free and works fine for my purposes. There is a converter from .wps to .doc files, called Cloud Converter. The converter allows you to use it for a limit of 25 documents per day for free to try it out. I did so and once I saw it worked well, paid $9 to convert a few hundred files. (When you try to view a .wps uploaded to Google Docs, you are prompted to convert it and Cloud Convert is one of the options.) .* I could not find the User's Manual for the T200 notebook at first. The instructions provided in the shipping carton were of no use. I used the Search Icon to try to find the manual, but all I found were results for links on the web to ASUS manuals, none of which was what I needed.It turns out the manual is an eBook accessed from the task bar on the Desktop. You can read the manual nicely using the tablet. The trick is finding the icon on the Desktop task bar (there is no tip identifying the icon as the user manual).In summary, I am very satisfied with the ASUS T200 notebook/tablet. If you like using Windows 7 and the Microsoft Office Suite, the Desktop mode will be very familiar to you. The way I am using the notebook, however, I wonder if a chrome book might be a good choice at half the cost. However, I have not seen a chrome book with a detachable tablet. So if you also want a tablet for reading books or watching videos, the ASUS T200 seems like a good choice to me.