[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goattee:
I realize this posting is going to be asking a lot of questions but I hope the thread will be helpful to everyone suffering with the awful ICS update series on the ASUS TF101. So please: if you have specific knowledge and experience, think of the large community of suffering TF101 owners and help them remedy the problem. Because it is apparent that ASUS has abandoned us.

BACKGROUND

I have a TF101 and I am disgusted with how badly ASUS has handled the development/testing/rollout of ICS. There's no point in being fast to market if you're going to put out crap that destabilizes your hardware!

- If I only had the easy choice of keeping the latest OTA (at the moment .27) or returning to Honeycomb, I would do the latter. It didn't crash. And it responded crisply to touches. But part of ASUS idiocy is not providing a backwards migration path even though they have ample evidence that they have a shoddy ICS ROM.

I realize, before asking, that there are a lot of combinations and permutations to what you folks might recommend. But let me help you to understand what I am seeking at the end of the migration:

First off about me: I have prior experience rooting and replacing ROM's. (Nexus One now runs CM 7.1. Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" GT-P1000 now running CM9.) But I would not describe myself as an experienced or confident person-- I suppose it would help if all Android devices used the same tools and procedures for performing the migration.

Bottom Line: I am capable of following instructions and I am comfortable with CWM flashing once I have a rooted device with CWM.

My criteria:

Stability:

I want highest possible stability- I am realistic; I realize that the ASUS TF101 is already cursed. But I would settle for one crash every couple of days.

Smooth performance:

Under .27 stock, there is a ridiculously slow response to touch events. My single core first generation Samsung 7" performs faster!

Ungimmicky:

I don't need flashy special features built into the ROM. I'd be happy with something that stays reasonably close to the vanilla Android ICS experience.

(If it helps, I am fairly pleased with the CM9 implementation on my ancient Samsung 7".)

What I Use TF101 For:

- Slingplayer Mobile

- Video files (.avi, .mp4, .mpg, .flv, .mkv)

- Reading: PressReader, Pulse, Flipboard

- Occasionally using an Office-type suite and/or Google Drive docs

What I Don't Want or Need

- Games

- ASUS "value added" bloatware apps

Questions:

- What are the important differences between the various CM9 implementations?

I see there are at least two CM9 implementations for the TF101. (Which may or may not be the same as the one posted at the CyanogenMod site:

http://get.cm/?device=tf101&type=stable

- I have done some reading about Revolver and Overcome. But I am not sure whether these are a better choice than CM9. Are they more reliable because they are based on the stock ROM?

(Remember that I don't want or need any ASUS apps.)

- So let's start with the important question: based on my needs and desire for a quick move to a rooted, stable, ICS TF101, which ROM should I use?

- Which kernel and version number should I flash to accompany that particular ROM?

- Is there a guide (either here on XDA or elsewhere) that will take me from stock, unrooted ICS .27 to installing CWM?

- A bonus would be if it took me all the way to flashing the final ROM, but this is not essential

One last point: I already understand the idea that CWM would let me try out various ROMs. And I am comfortable doing that if I am not happy with my first choice.

Thanks in advance, everyone!