ASUS T100TAF-BING-DK024B 11.6 inch HD LED Convertible Laptop Notebook (Intel BayTrail 1.46 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 32 GB eMMC, Wi-Fi, HDMI, USB 3.0, Windows 8.1)

This was delivered earlier than the specified delivery time so a big thank you to Amazon and Asus for such a speedy turnaround from order to delivery. I bought this for my wife who is not a power user like me so the specificiations were just right for her. I didn't have high expectations on this but I was pleasantly surprised when I unpacked it and powered it up. It's a superb little netbook which changes intoa superb tablet at the press of a push-button. As an android fanboy I was also pleasantly surprised by the windows 8/wiindows 10 (you get the option to upgrade to windows 10 for free which I did) and it works well on tablets. In fact I would go as far as to say it's as good as Android.The quality of the build is good, it doesn't feel cheap or tacky as some netbooks to do as when they are trying to keep the price down.It is fast, the key board feels good and is easy to type. the display is clear for the size and looks good. It's not too heavy as a laptop and as a tablet is not too weighty either. All in all a good quality , good value buy for the light PC user who also needs the versatility of a tablet.One point worth mentioning is that it doesn't have a DVD/CD drive and if you do wish to attach an external one you will need to use a powered USB hub.I would recommend this product to any one.

My trusty 7 year old WinXP MSI 10" netbook finally fell apart. So, I saw this ASUS Transformer in an amazon warehouse '20% off' sale as a directly comparable replacement for it. There are several different variants, I bought the one with the 64GB SSD and the 10.1" screen. After the sale discount was applied, it cost me about £120 in used 'very good' condition.Arrived on time, well packed and apparently undamaged - other than the cosmetic damage listed on the warehouse description, of course.It appears quite sturdy, and is heavier than you'd expect just from looking at it. I bought it to use as a netbook, but its actually a tablet with a detachable keyboard. Both the tablet (the screen part) and the dock (the keyboard/trackpad part) have charging ports and 'on/off' buttons and presumably separate batteries. Not quite sure how that works, as the windows onscreen battery indicator only shows the tablet battery charge (?), but if your keyboard/trackpad doesn't appear to be working be aware the dock needs to be charged and switched 'on'.Anyway, switched it on and it opens into the usual windows set up screen. The product description said it was loaded with Win 8.1, but the start up ended with a multi gigabyte Win10 update notice. Now I thought the 'free win10' update period was over, so I'm not sure if that update was 'built into' the ASUS when it was manufactured, or whether that particular PC I'd bought was already on Win10 and detecting the latest 'creators update' as part of set up. End result is - after a 2 hour long set up - its on the latest version of Windows 10........ and its not detecting its dock/keyboard/touchpad any more. Not sure why, maybe its set itself into tablet mode or maybe the dock battery needs to be charged after the 2 hours of setup activity, or maybe windows 10 doesn't understand the dock? After playing around with it for a couple of hours it seem to have a mind of its own how reliably it detects the dock. There may be a switch, a key, a setting or a duff driver that I need to find, but I haven't found it yet.Looking at the software installed alongside Win10, it has all the ASUS bloatware there. Which is good, because there may be some necessary drivers or utilities for the unusual hardware, like the dock, but bad because bloatware generally is. More surprisingly there's stuff like Dropbox, Evernote, WPS Office, Mcafee, DriverNotifier which may be part of the ASUS build, but its stuff I normally see dumped on refurbished PCs. That extra non-ASUS(?) bloatware takes over 1GB, which is a lot of wasted space on a small SSD PC! So I uninstalled all that. McAfee, as expected, didn't want to go. DriverNotifier tried to tell me i'd 'underestimated it' which was strangely creepy. I may have to do a clean Win10 install after hearing that.PC is now recharging. 5 hours to full charge it tells me, which is not an impressive recharge rate.Last, but not least, its listed as a T200TA on Amazon, but the box it arrived in tells me its a T100CHI. It looks like the pictured product, and has the correct spec ...... and I don't know if there is any difference between the T200TA and T100CHI, but be aware it appears there are all sorts of variants under the generic product title.So, if it runs OK after the recharge and I find out how to make the dock detection more reliable, it looks like a suitable replacement for my old MSI.

This was ordered as a gift and the recipient loves it.The first thing I will note is that it can handle Windows 10 quite happily and really for best results you should definitely upgrade it (shame Asus don't factory update them) however bear in mind it will need to be manually done using an external DVD drive or USB pen drive with at least 8GB storage.You will need Windows 10 x32 - the machine has and will only ever have 2GB of RAM so no point with x64, unless of course you really, really want to void any warranty, take it apart and somehow solder on an additional RAM chips beyond 4GB, Good luck and let me know how it goes.The integrated storage is only 32GB (you can add an additional MicroSD, at time of writing we haven't bothered yet), however here is the fun part: Asus take 10GB for a recovery partition, then Windows 8.1 takes about 8GB leaving around 16GB for you to store everything else, too little to do an in-place upgrade of Windows 8.1 to 10, so your best bet is to wipe (Delete all "Drive 0" partitions and then choose the line that reads something like: "Drive 0 unallocated space" Drive 1 is the 500GB keyboard HDD) and re-install clean, although you will also need to download all the Windows 10 x32 Drivers from the Asus website and install each one manually (forget the touch screen driver windows handles this once the chipset driver is installed).Once you have Windows 10 it is excellent as it can auto switch from "Laptop" mode to "Tablet" mode when attached to the keyboard/mouse dock.It is a little top heavy when in "Laptop" mode as you may be able to expect, all the workings are in the screen and not the base, although if you opt (like I did) for the 500GB HDD version as well then this counters some of the screen weight.To turn on initially you will need to put the machine on charge and wait for about 15mins to allow the battery to charge as it arrives dead as a dodo, cant complain too much though as for sub £200 (at time of writing) it's a brilliant machine.We found that when you take the screen off the keyboard dock it makes a slightly larger than normal tablet but as a laptop it is perfectly sized and an excellent purchase for anyone wanting a small laptop or large tablet.