If you really want to change the color settings, we suggest skipping either of the aforementioned options and moving right along to Manual Mode.ĭespite its excellent visual quality, the Transformer Book's display offered shallow viewing angles, with images washing out at roughly 40 degrees. The Theater option gave our display a yellow hue that was less than desirable, while the Vivid setting cranked up the white balance. The program features three preset color levels for various viewing situations including Normal, Theater and Vivid.
Colors were also exquisite, as made evident by the blisteringly neon lights of a rain-soaked city.Īs part of its software suite, ASUS loaded the Transformer Book with its Splendid Technology display utility.
While watching a 1080p trailer for "Pacific Rim," we could clearly make out intricate details found on the movie's giant robots, including gaps between their armor plating. Text on websites such as was razor-sharp, and we were able to see more content above the fold than on lower resolution 13-inch displays.
By comparison, the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700t, which has a smaller 11.6-inch display, measures 11.97 x 7.46 x 0.47 inches and weighs 1.8 pounds.Ĭlick to EnlargeThe Transformer Book TX300's gorgeous 13.3-inch 1920 x 1080 IPS display produced outstanding visuals. Lenovo's innovative Yoga hybrid is more in line with the Transformer Book's dimensions at 13.1 x 8.9 x 0.67 inches, but is still far lighter than the ASUS, weighing just 3.4 pounds.Īs a stand-alone tablet, the Transformer Book TX300 measures 13.3 x 8.4 x 0.15-0.43 inches and weighs 2.2 pounds. The dock's underside features a slightly textured brushed aluminum design.Īt 4.2 pounds and 13.3 x 8.6 x 0.27-0.94 inches, the Transformer Book TX300 is both larger and heavier than the 12.5-inch Dell XPS 12, which weighs 3.4 pounds and measures 12.5 x 8.5 x 0.6-0.8 inches. A slider lock sits on the connector's left side. The brushed aluminum keyboard deck is exceptionally wide for a product in this class, and we certainly appreciated the extra room.Ībove the keyboard, just below the dock connector, is a strip of faux metal knurling.
Unlike many Windows 8 laptop-tablet hybrids, the Transformer Book TX300 offers a large wrist rest and touchpad. Personally, I think the factory reset must've changed some system files that then stops the tablet from being charged whilst being on, although I don't exactly know how this would work! Another thing that I forgot to mention was that I also have the keyboard dock, which has similar problems with charging as well! I don't seem to be having much luck with my first tablet.Click to EnlargeThe dock's keyboard deck apes that of ASUS' Taichi 21 and Zenbook Prime. But I when I plug the tablet into my laptop, the computer recognises it, and the tablet can be trickle charged, so surely its not the wall charger or the cable? I then tried the asus cable in another USB wall charger to charge my tablet, and that didnt work. Now, I did some "debugging": I tried my phone charger cable plugged into the asus wall charger, and it charged up fine.
I tried the same with the wall charger, and that worked too. I tried this a low and behold, it worked. Unfortunately none of these worked, so I decided to plug the charger directly into my laptop and leave it overnight (as I saw someone had said their TF101 had trickle charged overnight). I found a lot of people on different forums talking about problems with charging the TF101, so I tried the different solutions people stated (like putting the wall charger in the freezer for half an hour, doing a hard reset, and trying another factory reset). So, I went on the old internet and tried looking for a solution. It doesn't recognise that the charger is plugged into the tablet and turned on either. Afterwards, I tried charging the tablet and realised the battery level wasn't increasing. The guy I bought it from had left some of his apps etc on, so I decided to do a factory reset so I could start from scratch. I just bought a TF101 off ebay, with the keyboard dock. Hi everyone, this is my first post so I'll try and explain it as best I can!