Battery Life And Recharge Time
Our battery tests represent a worst-case scenario for all of these devices because we dial brightness up to each screen's maximum value. This is something you'll see evolve in 2012 to include battery life results indicative of a normalized screen brightness level.
For the time being, though, we put specific emphasis on display quality, and we want to show you what you end up with, mobility-wise, when you take advantage of the higher-end screens available on tablets and tablet PCs. The resulting scores are particularly hard on the slates based on x86 hardware. Because they consume significantly more power and are never allowed to sit idle, they generally don't compare favorably. The advantages of ARM's architecture is most apparent in this case.
Despite a battery test that we already know is stacked against both slates, Samsung's offering is vastly superior to Asus' here. Not only does it come equipped with an excellent display, but it also shoulders three hours of a relatively heavy workload before running out of juice. If you enable the ambient light sensor to auto-dim brightness, you can easily expect four to five hours of useful life. And that's what makes this tablet PC better suited to the daily grind as you jump from one meeting to the next.
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Do. Want. Finally - a tablet that doesn't require a proprietary operating system that needs 1,000,000,000 apps for every website on the internet in order to function properly. It has an SSD and not flash memory. It has a real working version of Windows - with a great interface on top of it. This looks like a tablet I can get behind.
A very nice tablet! Hoping that ivy bridge will allow faster processers without creating too much heat and saving battery. I'm really looking into getting a tablet in the future to replace my notebook and this looks is very reassuring that things are improving
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A5 vs SB,. hehehe (grinning
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The first sentence of this article told me all I needed to know.
What about the digitizer? I appreciate the comparisons to the Asus EEE Slate, but that has a 256-level pressure sensitive wacom digitizer on top of the screen. And no mention of it or what is on this device?
Yay finally, I saw this in shops around a month ago and wonder when tom's would cover it.
The UI makes it seem like a smartphone. You keep mentioning the pen but there is no comparison? Does it have palm rejection?
Instead of current sandybridge (i.e hd 3000) the should give an amd llano which has a better gpu or the ivy bridge mobile cpus (which is with hd 4000 gpu) and a lower TDP.
Isn't it a little steep for a 1000$....??? After all it's a Samsung, 11.6Inch Tab.......
I think it'd be a lot more wiser to buy a laptop for that price and get a much more efficient and powerful piece of tech.
I would have given the Note from Samsung a thought had it had 7.5 installed on it..... but again..... it's a samsung.....
Might get one once they upgrade to Ivy Bridge revision.. And by then, I hope Samsung can make it even lighter.
This model has a noticeable problem where the screen separates from the bezel. Was strongly considering buying this laptop before that, hopefully thou now it may be fixed.
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/sa [...] creen.html
Lol.. Ever tried NOT putting a video to Private that's in this article that was uploaded to Tom's channel?
I mean.. -.-
Why is it called an ass wipe keyboard ? I'm sure the marketing team behind this brilliance could easily come up with something more catchy.
Can't wait for future tablets when ivy bridge or haswell processors come out.
^ and after that, "cant wait till silvermont launches"
Over $1000 for PC without a keyboard and only one USB slot is NUTS! Samsung FAILS on this one.
I think Acer was more successful on this one with its A500 and W500 tablets. They have a better graphics chip.
Instead of buying a case and a stand, why not put a hinge in the case and it would do double duty. Throw in a few keys into the base and you get more productive and dont have to worry about loss of the stylus. A super thin laptop with a great display and an SSD, such as LG has introduced into Japan, is so much better,