Asus Eee Pad Transformer: best of both worlds?

Torn between a tablet and a netbook? Asus’ Eee Pad Transformer could be your dream gadget.

Call me old-fashioned, but I’m still rather attached to physical keyboards. Tablets and smartphones might be fun for a little touchscreen tomfoolery, but when there’s work to be done I want a real keyboard at my fingertips rather than an onscreen facsimile. Bashing out more than a quick email on an onscreen keyboard is slow going.

It’s not that I’ve got anything against tablets, they’ve certainly got their place. It’s just that if I’m going to spend that kind of money on a gadget it really needs to be more than a toy. It needs to offer options for both work and play. That’s what makes Asus’ new Eee Pad Transformer TF101 such an intriguing idea. As I said on Wednesday, it comes with a separate 10-inch keyboard designed to dock with the tablet. Together they measure, weigh and cost only slightly more than your traditional 10-inch netbook running Windows… Read More [via smh]