[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] BarryH_GEG:
90% of what he asked was generic and the Prime's going to run the exact same applications every other HC tablet does exactly the same way (albeit faster). There might be some Teg3 optimized games but, other than that, it's just another tablet from a utilization perspective.

Here's some apps I can't live without:

Plex and Playon for video streaming

With Plex, you can store all your audio and video content on your home PC, NAS, or WHS and play it on your tablet, even over a 3G connection. It does an impressive job of organizing, labeling, and presenting your content and the tablet interface is pretty slick. I have 2TB of video that I stream to my tablet. It does a fantastic job of transcoding so the video quality's great even over sketchy connections.

PlayOn provides access to Hulu, Amazon VOD, and Netflix. It too is excellent at transcoding and actually does a better job in terms of video quality and buffering than the native apps. It's the best way to access Hulu content.

Pulse and News360 for news

Both have great tablet interfaces, sync with their desktop companions to bookmark or save stories, and can be highly personalized.

Zinio, PressReader, and Next Issue for magazines and newspapers

All have great content available and are designed for tablet screens. Next Issue content is free if you already have print subscriptions.

Read it Later for offline web surfing

Great app for finding web stuff to download to your tablet either as you see it or from your desktop PC to read later.

Swiftkey Tablet X & Swype keyboards

Swiftkey is a fantastic keyboard with excellent predicitive word logic and layout. It also has a thumb keyboard setting which is great when you aren't using a physical keyboard.

Swype has a mini-mode which takes up about 1/8 of the screen and is really fast when you're writing longer e-mails or docs.

CoPilot for navigation

Google map caching is hit or miss when you need to deviate and don't have a wireless signal. CoPilot stores all data locally and doesn't require any wireless signal to be fully functional.

TouchDown for e-mail

It's the best e-mail app for contact management and tasks. You almost have to have it if you connect to Exchange. It's got the best widgets of any e-mail program out there.

Worldmate travel companion

If you travel a lot Worldmate stores the details of your future trips on your tablet. As you're traveling it provides alerts for gates and times and any delays or changes to your itinerary. You can check flight status for any airline in real time and look up alternates if you're screwed.

Widgets

There's tons of screen space to fill on a tablet and these are some of the widgets I think are cool looking, useful, or both.

- Google Market

- AP Mobile

- CNBC

- CNN

- Pulse (multiples)

- Touchdown e-mail, calendar, and tasks

- Worldmate (live flight alerts on your home screen)

- Social Hub

- Gallery

- Kobo

- Amazon MP3

Task killers, batter managers, and the like

Tablets are different than phones and they're used differently. Android as an OS manages resources incredibly effectively. While it's a personal choice, adding things that use resources to save resources seems counter intuitive to me and I don't use them.

Half the fun of an Android tablet (vs. iOS) is the ability to make it your own. Enjoy.