[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Komodo Rogue:
Alright, so I flashed June 21 earlier today, didn't use it at all (just flashed it before hopping in the shower, then plugged in my prime, and left). A couple of hours ago I got back and flashed motley's kernel (he just updated a new one yesterday, conveniently enough, so check it out if you're using his kernel!), and then started using my prime for the first time today. The good news is that there is definitely a positive difference, the bad the news is that I'm not sure whether it's the new kernel or the new nightly. I'll check the changelogs and see if anything with CM9 June 21 could be the reason for the improvements, but for this post I'm going to assume it's motley's kernel.

thinking about using motley's cm9 kernel but hate long posts? tl;dr - results are somewhat conflicting, but wifi and system speed are both marginally, but noticeably, improved.

The first thing I noticed was the wifi. Background: my desk is located pretty far from my router and I just barely get any wifi signal (literally one "bar," or dot, and sometimes - if I'm lucky - when I hold my tablet in a certain way I can get two bars for a minute or two). This has been the case for every ROM, including stock. My signal strength is not strong enough to watch netflix. Also, I made my IP address static, as I heard that it would improve wifi.

With CM9, with the exclusion of a few nighties, the wifi has always been a little "flakey," like you mentioned earlier. Sometimes it disconnects from the network for no apparent reason, and I need to rescan or turn wifi off and back on to reconnect. Speaking of turning wifi on and off, turning wifi off usually takes 1-2 seconds, and turning it on and reconnecting takes 0-3 seconds. Not a big deal, and these problems seem to go away when I'm closer to my router, just a little annoyance with CM9.

So now I'm at my desk with motley's new kernel, and I'm getting two bars. I can't get three, but I also am not dropping down to one. It's staying solidly at two bars, and when I turn my wifi off, it turns off immediately, and when I turn it back on, it turns on and connects almost immediately. I loaded up netflix, and it wasn't blazing fast or anything, but it played a video without problems. So I was really impressed, and wanted to see more detailed info, and loaded up a wifi signal testing app. I expected to see a decent increase from my usual signal strength, maybe like 65 dBm or so, but it was the exact same as always: it floated around 75 dBm:

So, I'm not sure what to make of that, but watching netflix has never been possible at my desk, so something must be better - perhaps dBm doesn't reflect whatever gain I experienced.

The other BIG difference was performance. I turned my system to performance mode (I always set it to performance), BUT I lowered the max cpu to 1600 (down from motley's 1800 max). Also, I kept the governor on the same cm9 default, interactive. I did this so that if I saw performance changes I would know that they were not just because of higher cpu clock speeds. The results with synthetic benchmarks were impressive. On Quadrant, I usually get mid-upper 4000s with current CM9 kernel, but I consistently* saw mid 5000s with motley:

*well, I ran it twice, but they were both mid 5000s :p

I saw those scores on my tablet with Team Gummy's ROM but I chalked it up to the higher max clock speed of 1800 (perhaps unfairly).

I did some web browsing, photo editing, and wrote a long, boring post about a kernel on some website for computer nerds, and everything performed at least as well as CM9 kernel. It's hard to really say, and who knows how strongly the placebo effect was affecting my judgement (especially after seeing the quadrant scores), but I feel like things were running a bit more smoothly than before.

My only complaint is that I think my tablet is running hotter than with the CM9 kernel, and also, the battery seems to be eating away a little bit faster now. So hard to know, but I'm like 80% sure it's running hotter, and 90% sure the battery is draining faster. I need to get a cpu temp app.

Motley kernel is a great alternative to what CM9 is currently using. If battery life isn't what you're after and wifi signal is good for you, I would suggest it. When I flash the next nightly, can I open the nightly.zip and swap in motley's kernel if I want to use it, or just remove whatever flashes the kernel? Or do I have to flash cm9 and then flash motley over it?