[Transformer TF300T General] rlanza1054:
Ah,.. the 300 is out now, you can order it on Amazon, it's not a pre-order!

Rob

---------- Post added at 10:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:48 PM ----------

When I talked about the speaker on the Asus TF300 it wasn't the placement that I was referring to, it was the crackling sound it make when you go to high volume.

The speakers can't be overdrive or even turned up full!

That's what the review on YouTube said.

Rob

---------- Post added at 11:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:50 PM ----------

One thing you didn't mention in the review but users are asking, is the 'grid effect' onscreen.

Can you explain it or video it in some form.

Is it really visible?

And can you talk about the heat issue from the one reviewer who made the post on Amazon?

I want to watch movies on it, which I think is going to be what it's used for.

The other thing I plan is to replace my laptop.

My main laptop died about 2 month ago, and a friend gave me a very very old laptop that I use RDP to connect into my desktop and use it that way. The laptop has Windows 2000 on it. I just about managed RDP but it does boot very fast! LOL! There is nothing on it.

I have a good Windows 7 quad Desktop and use that for my mail and all my media servers, such as Playon and Windows Media Center.

I even run a few virtual XP desktops from it using VMware Workstation and a virtualized version of Windows 8 using Virtual Box by Oracle.

I RDP into it from old desktop and laptops all over the house. This way I get performance on old equipment that should have been thrown out.

I'm new to Android and have discovered that I like using Android for my mail and all my media consumption. So I figured a tablet would be a good replacement for my bedroom laptop (that's the Windows 2000 laptop).

I even ordered from Amazon a 'gooseneck tablet mount' that way I can lay in bed and look up at the screen.

I have my phone mounted in the Samsung Car Mount on my night table because I just snap it in and it charges and auto connects to external speakers, I don't have to deal with plugging in wires that way. And it's easy to swivel around for late night movie watching that puts me to sleep.

Anyway, Acer A510 or Asus TF300.. I am leaning torward the Acer because or those stupid rings and the sides have this nice fake metal and a cover for the microSD card. But I am concerned with the USB dongle. I now understand why they put the non-standard mini-usb connector on it, it charges at 12v not 5v. That's why it lasts longer, it has a huge battery in it. So it can't be charged by a weak 5v standard usb charger.

And that is why they had to give you the dongle. It fits that non-standard usb port. However, as I am writing this, if I have a hard drive hooked up or some other stuff, how awkward is it going to be. And it won't be easy as they say to get a right angled adapter, remember this is a non-standard port, and regular mini-plug won't fit.

But there is something that nobody has mentioned. Acer said that this tablet has a ton of printer drivers included it can print directly to most usb printers! Which is maybe what you'd hook up the usb port. The print is important to me if I am going to use it as a laptop replacement.

Ok, that's it, it's late!

Rob