[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] kristovaher:
But the thing here is that it is not an uneducated guess. I don't live in clouds and am not follower of ASUS or Transformer Prime religion. I absolutely love Android and Galaxy Nexus is by far the best phone I've ever held in my hands (and I've held many).

My friend has the original Transformer and he hyped it up quite a bit. I was expecting something better than what TF201 ended up being. Sure, it is a great device, but we're a bit blind here. It is 2012, it has a four/five-core processor and can barely run GTAIII above 20FPS, for example. In both cases (PC and Android) GTAIII is a port, so one does not have the advantage of being more 'native' than the other. My computer from way back in the day was single-core, had half the RAM and did a better job at it. So I was disappointed with this whole Tegra 3 thing because so much attention in marketing was put behind that processor. But for an Android it is, of course, amazing, since it is better than other Android devices.

As for battery life, I hoped it would be better than TF101, but it isn't. I ran TF201 against my friends TF101 and I lost out on battery life (this was tablet only test, my dock has not been recharged often enough yet to have full potential). It isn't as bad as I originally feared and what some reviews originally stated and if I battery-manage my WiFi settings and whatnot, it is better.

This is good. Just don't kill me for my own different opinions just because I disagree. It is entirely my own opinion that an iPad 2 is a better device than TF201 (even if TF201 didn't have the quality-control and design flaws) and I've not owned a single Apple device, other than an iPod Nano (the one with video), in my life.

Reality is that with all the four/five core stuff and Tegra 3 for games thing, it is barely at the level of iPad 2, released almost a year ago. It is a great step for Android, but not for tablets in general. And I still have UI lag issues every now and then where you see that the transitions are not smooth enough, even if I don't have apps running in the background (but I guess this will get better in future Android 4.X updates).

I agree only partly, because it is not that black and white. Customer really is the king here, we are paying them money. They are building these devices for us only because we are willing to pay for them. If they build up expectations, fail to meet these expectations in some occasions and include bunch of critical problems while at it, then we, who are paying for the whole show, are upset. Social media is a new way to make ourselves heard and make the company react quicker (you have to admit that it has gotten us some information and updates quicker than 'the old way'). We are impatient because we are paying a lot of money for this.

And Apple has set the standard here, their launches have problems but they rarely have more than one critical flaw on their device during launch, as opposed to handful on TF201. I know that ASUS does not have as much money to do the same, but they are asking us to pay almost as much for the whole show as Apple. We expect them to live up to that standard.

Assuming so many negative things? I am standing behind all of my comments said even before I got the device. I was critical of battery, because it lasted less than TF101. I've been critical of the processor, because graphics wise it loses out to iPad 2 in some ways and the four/five core setup does not enhance Android enough (I've noticed no difference compared to dual-core Galaxy Nexus). My own tests now confirm those same problems. Sure, it is better if I run a lot of background processes, but I don't, since I'm very OCD about how my device works.

And I still believe that Prime loses out a lot because it only has 1GB of RAM. A lot of background apps are closed from RAM because other apps need more of it.

I repeat again that this is not black and white. I am looking at my TF201 objectively. I paid for it, I love Android, it just is not as good as I hoped it would be, even if it didn't have WiFi/GPS/Bluetooth and other quality control flaws.

Agreed. Thanks for the discussion.