ASUS Transformer Book 10.1" 2-in-1 Laptop
$129.99
$399.99
68% off
Reference Price
Screen Size: 10.1"
Condition: Refurbished
Top positive review
6 people found this helpful
Great battery life, value and performance
By Jon on Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2016
Very happy with this purchase. I purchased this 2in1 with mobility in mind. My main use is for reading academic papers and writing. Its a pleasure to read papers on a tablet (screen size is perfect for that) that can also double as a laptop for some productive work. I've got Office 2010 installed and it runs fine. I often have Firefox, Spotify, Mendeley desktop, pdfs and Word/TeXstudio open at the same time without much problem. Battery report says I'm getting ~9+hours from a full charge. This includes a fair bit of surfing, streaming and watching videos in addition to work. The device feels good. Looks good. Haven't had any problems with the touchscreen. My (mostly minor) issues with it: 1) I bought a 200gb microsd card for this device. Doesn't work well: can't write anything at all on to the card. It just hangs. I managed to play an 8gb video from it though. Swapped it out and am using a 32gb card at the moment. 2) Speaker quality is horrible. Then again, I've never expected much from laptop speakers. Plugged in a good pair of earphones and was happy :) 3 ) Keyboard: Occasionally, either the touchpad or the keyboard doesn't respond when I use it. I'm not sure why. I usually just detach and reattach the screen to fix it. 4) Had a few occasional crashes during first week of use. Seems OK now. 5) Been seeing people complaining about the keyboard being flimsy. Personally, its not as bad as it seems. You have to apply a fair bit of force (unlikely in normal use). Doesn't affect its functionality. 6) Another thing people will probably point out is that its top-heavy in laptop mode. Again, haven't had a problem with it. The only time I managed to tip the laptop over was when I did it on purpose. I wouldn't place the laptop on the very edge of a table or bed though. Overall, very happy with this device---for $300, it performs really well. Good battery life for people wanting mobility.
Top critical review
4 people found this helpful
The micro-USB port is not a very sturdy interface to have a power cord in all the ...
By coffee geek on Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2016
Second update - Failing grade. The same problem has occurred again - a failure of the power management on the motherboard. Once again I have shipped it back and waited for their sloooooow ground shipping to get it there and then for it to sit around over 3 days before they even looked at it - only after I made a call to ask why it had not yet been looked at and they "expedited" it. From the day I shipped it until it is scheduled to get back is 16 days! Just like last time. So I've owned this computer for 7 months, with over a month of that time it was out of service due to being shipped and repaired. You'd expect them to use faster air shipping like most computer companies rather than ground shipping. This machine has been babied - it has only been used in the house and never dropped or misused in any way and two failures. Since it has happened twice I expect it will again, probably just as it goes out of warranty and that will be the end of this. Based on my experience I simply cannot recommend this machine. Too bad, I actually find it to have good performance and human factors, when it works, and a reasonable price point. I tried to get them to extend the warranty just on this one problem, in case it happens yet again, but no luck. Way too much money for a product that probably will only last me a year before it breaks out out of warranty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First update: It has worked well for me, no real complaints but one - there is only one power port - the micro USB on the right side. If your electrical plug is on the other side the power cord gets in your way. The USB cord they supply is ridiculously short. The first thing I did was buy a longer one. But it quickly started slipping our of the port and I was having trouble getting it to charge. Even with the original cord I only got intermittent charging. Finally, I could not charge it at all and just had to send it back to ASUS for repair or replacement. After just a couple of months.I'm not sure if it is mechanical or something internal. (update - they say the problem is at the motherboard and had to replace it) The micro-USB port is not a very sturdy interface to have a power cord in all the time. I suspect this is part of the problem. Worst part, for warranty repair, they do not supply a box AND they use FedX's slowest shipping. I shipped my ASUS out from a FedX office in NJ on Saturday morning using their supplied label and it is scheduled to arrive in CA for repair a week latter on this coming Friday I guess I'll get it back a week after that Unacceptable.
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