[Eee Pad Transformer General] xun3:
Hi, I've had the good fortune to own a few tablets, Nook color, Transformer Tf101 16GB, and an Ipad 2 16GB wifi. I'm looking at the comparison without rooting or jailbreaking.

Just a little background, I'm a University student studying my masters. So I primarily use my tablet to read a lot. I have hundreds of papers on my computer and my tablet is a great way of reading them. Thus the screen is very important to me, and it has to have a high resolution.

Although the new iPad is out with the retina display, I won't switch because of what I consider, the worst handcuff of iOS. And that's the non-transparent file system.

The ability for other apps to see files of other apps is the single most frustrating thing I've encountered on iOS. There are times I need to download a paper, or a class note onto my tablet from the website. On my transformer, I just log on, download it, and open it once it's downloaded. But on the iPad, unless it's a PDF I can't open it.

I also make annotations and notes on my pdf's. I can easily transfer my single file over gmail, dropbox, skydrive....where ever. This is because every app has a built in file explorer, and they can see every file on my Transformer.

iOS cannot do this. If I download a pdf from a website, I can only use the ipad version of Preview. Which I can't draw, or annotate. I realize that some apps are integrated into safari, but they don't work 100% of the time, especially when the document I want has some sort of weird Java file link (which my university uses). If I want to transfer the file to email, can do it over wifi with a direct transfer, or maybe drop box or email (depending on the pdf app). But I can't sort it properly the way I would organize my PDF's. If I have another app that want to use to open the file, I can't open that file. I have to make a copy of the PDF to transfer it. So for two apps to open the same file, I have to have two copies of that file, once for each app. And on a 16GB iPad, that fills up really fast.

Another one is playing videos. I use Upnplay on my transformer, and stream videos from my pc to play. This is great since I have a central server. The cool thing is that I can select any video player I want. Some work better than others for certain video files.

On the iPad, there are only a few upnp apps available, and most of them can't really play all the file that I stream. The app is limited in it's ability to decode video. And, since the file system is not transparent, I can't use another app to open the video.

Finally, just an acknowledgement of what was said before:

iOS:

It is very smooth and stable. the apps operate very smoothly. Interacting with the tablet is very nice. It's just a nice interaction experience. Transferring, organizing, moving, opening files that you have is incredibly frustrating and restrictive.

My mom loves using it because there's less micro management and there's not much she uses it for. But that's the reason why I gave it to her.

Android (based on HC):

It's smooth when you first start it. But as you accumulate apps, and have more files placed, I've noticed that Honeycomb really slows down. And like windows, it's time to do a wipe and clean re-install. Unless you're vigilant, your files will quickly become disorganized. Other than that, the flexibility that it gives you is very nice. It soon becomes a pain. ICS has addressed a lot of the user interaction issues I've had with HC, but I've only had it for a day, so I can't comment further.