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Hello nice people who probably have a much higher IQ in these things than me (more of a smartphone enthusiast myself), I have rubbish Windows Hybrid which is more formally known as the Asus T100TAM, I can't seem to get any type of Linux OS on the machine. The closest I have ever gotten was an image of Linux (Can't remember which) that had no network support for WiFi or Ethernet connection via cabled. I am kind of stuck here. Put it back on Windows 10 for the time being but honestly the lag is unbearable. (I did not buy the laptop myself, it was a gift from my father, I would have definitely got a Chromebook for less money.) Thanks Guys, Techmnine

Okay, so I got a T100TAM, and love it to bits. However it came with loads of Crapware and as a result I decided to reinstall windows on it. I've managed to reinstall windows and get seemingly all the drivers working bar this one. It's the Invensense G-Sensor Driver, which I can only assume is the gyro driver. (From the website: http://www.asus.com/2-in-1-PCs/ASUS_Transformer_Book_T100TAM/HelpDesk_Download/) Anyway, when I try to install it, running as admin or not, it always fails. Seemingly because it doesn't have enough permissions for something. I'm new to windows 8 so I might be missing something but I really need help here, it's the final thing I need to have the tablet running perfectly. If you can help, or have any insight, please let me know. Thanks - Pyroven

Introduction: I recently purchased this T100 from Best Buy. It was somewhat of an impulse buy, and also bought knowing I can return it in 30 days, when potentially better items enter the market (see Conclusion below). I needed to know if I wanted a Windows-Based tablet, as I already own an iPad and an older ASUS Transformer Android tablet, as well as an Android Phone. This device, at the time of writing, is a mere $230, including 1 year of office 365 and the keyboard at Best Buy. I am doing this review, partially out of boredom, and partially out of a realization that I really do have the opportunity to use devices in real-world scenarios, not just in my house. I realise this is a device from 2013, but when you look at the newest items out these days, you will see they are JUST NOW starting to replace these items (See Conclusion). Specifications: Cost: $230 Windows 8.1 (Full x86, 32-bit) CPU: Atom Z3740 1.33GHz RAM: 1GB DDR3 10.1" 1366x768 IPS LED (And gorilla glass) 32GB Storage, with MicroSD 1xMicroUSB for Charging and OTG 1xMicro HDMI 1xFull-Size USB 3.0 (on keyboard dock). ~11 Hour Battery Life Crappy Webcam My Usage Type: I work for an e-Learning company, and am the primary client services/get stuff done guy for their automotive training solutions. I answer upwards of 100 emails a day, run web trainings, fix problems, and help with the development and deployment of new versions and features. I also work from home. Home = my home office, the local coffee shop, or in my car up some mountain roads, as long as I still get 4G. This past weekend, it was from the small town of Moscow, Idaho. I currently have a Powerful desktop, running 4 monitors, all of which are used constantly. I also have a company-provided Macbook Pro Retina. This device is meant to replace the macbook as my "carry with me everywhere just in case I need to work" system. Day-To-Day Use: I used this system from home, my local panera bread, and from a hotel. I used it for some minor emailing over the weekend, watching some movies, general web browsing for fun and work. Skype worked well, and I skyped my Fiance' for awhile with no major issues. My video seemed a tad laggy, so that is one thing to consider. Obviously, with 1GB ram, and a low-end camera from 2013, you cannot expect miracles. I used it to preview some RAW pictures, using an SD card reader plugged into the keyboard's USB 3.0 port. They all pulled up quickly, but I had to use programs other than windows default. Plex streaming worked fine, and when I watched a couple episodes of The Blacklist, I had no complaints on playback. Now, I was only streaming 720p. While in the hotel this past weekend, this was my primary source of entertainment. I watched some LTT videos, browsed the forums with no major issues. On average, I had 5 chrome tabs open, and the unit was at 80% RAM usage. Actual work on the unit was a bit different. Typing on the smaller keyboard was a bit troublesome, but after a bit, it was easier to manage. The unit is not my i7/16GB/Watercooled desktop for sure. Having a half dozen windows open on chrome didn't kill the machine, but it wasnt perfect either. The worst was the trackpad. But to be honest, I hate all by my macbook pro's trackpad, and would end up using a small bluetooth mouse anyway. But, working from this small unit, versus my 15" Macbook pro was much nicer, and I felt less awkward carrying it around with me and using it. At the end of 4 days, my battery is finally down to 10%, and is being charged. ASUS was not lying about battery usage. Any other review puts this little guy at the top of many lists for battery life. Pros: Battery Life Cost General size Full-Size USB port and Windows 8.1 = a very productive unit. Cons: Screen Resolution (This is a meh point for me on a 10" screen, but its still pretty low res) 1GB Ram. There are 2GB versions available, but not at Best Buy, and not for $230 Bulky. I like the keyboard implementation of the Surface line much better. You are often left with "wait, where do I put this keyboard and hinge now?" Not the fastest. This is probably due to the RAM capacity more than anything else. Conclusion: This is NOT a bad little unit. For $220, you get a very usable unit running full windows with a great battery life and a keyboard. In the last day, Asus has released their new version, their T100 Chi. This is a similar unit, with some appropriate upgrades. Better screen Res, Form factor, and 2GB Ram are now standard. But so is a $400 pricetag. Same for the new Surface 3. I am so tempted to buy one, but with the $630 pricetag for a 2GB unit and a keyboard, I cannot justify that cost. For under $250, you really cannot beat this guy when it comes to "name brand products". You can find the 2GB versions for around $250-260 on sale, and with the release of newer items, that will probably be seen more often. For me? I will hang on to this until my return period is up. Best Buy has never argued with me returning a unit "just because I didn't like it and want something better". I guess that's one plus of having "elite status" with them - less stupid questions from them. But, I am still in search for a ~$300 Windows tablet with keyboard. It has to have a keyboard, last 9+ hours, and have a dedicated MicroUSB or Full size USB port, hopefully with 2GB+ Ram this time. Let me know what you thought of the review, any recommendations are welcome. This is my first review, but hope it was helpful.

Hey Everyone! So this is my review of the Asus T100, where I take a look at the device and decide on what I think. The T100 is a budget friendly 2 in 1 transformer book, and a good option for a low price. If you enjoyed my review, subscribe to the channel for more content, and to help me grow, and also feel free to comment any constructive criticism for me, as improvement is always a good thing!

Hi I am looking to buy one of two tablets, the Asus t100 or the Acer switch 10. If you own and use one of these two tablets please give me some info on one or the other. Thanks in advance !

Note: This is my first review on really anything on this forum so I'll try to make this review as descriptive as possible. Sorry if I have some grammar or sentence structure mistakes, Enlish isn't my strongest subject. The Asus Transformer Book T100 is a evolution and somewhat an revolution to the slow, crappy, cheap netbooks from 4 or 5 years ago. When the introduction of the tablets came to play like the originial Ipad and the Nexus 7. The netbook market share has been quickly losing over the huge popularity of the tablet and ultraportables. Now with Intels new Bay Trail processor and Asus superior netbook and laptop design and manufacture technquies. The netbook has risen from dead to take back its place as a cheap, portable, bloatware free, light workhouse power machine. Asus has been the best manufaures of netbooks for years when they were popular, in fact the reason why netbooks really existed in the first place and known to the pulbic somewhat is because of asus because they make wonderful laptops for all class, from expensive ultraportables to inespensive 400 dollar machines. I'm pretty sure that Asus knew about the fact that the netbook was going down in flames when the first introduction of the tablet came into play, however, all Asus was really needed was a cheap, power effiecent, x86 processor from Intel and Window 8.1 to kickstart the netbook again. This answer came in the package of the Asus T100 that is running a quad core Intel Atom Bay-Trail Z3740D processor, and its pretty snappy for an atom processor. Window 8.1 makes the touch experience more enjoyable and with Window 8.1's tablet sipping battery consumtion, the Asus T100 is somewhat a revolution of the traditional netbook experience. What comes inside the box Inside the somewhat heavy box, you littery get everything needed for the tablet. When I first opened the box the first thing I saw was the tablet itself inside a fingerprint/dust protector bag, with some information about the device. Then below that was the keyboard also in a bag, then below that was a warrenty guide, a quick start manual, and the activation code for your copy of Microsoft Office student edition which includes Word, Powerpoint and Excel. Below that was the USB 2 male to micro USB male connector to charge the device. The power brick to charge the device comes in a seperate tray on the left of the power cable. The device comes defualt uncharged to turn on, however yours could be different, however charging this device isn't really that long considering which the powerbrick charges at 2 amp. The quick start manual said that it takes about 8 hours to charge the device up compleatly on the first charge which is total bulls*it from my experience. It took about 2 to 3 hours to charge complately on the first charge. Sorry for not having photos, didn't have my camera when I open the box. The Tablet The tablet itself is about half a kilogram or one pound which is a lot heavier then the Ipad air and most tablets in this size. The processor is an Intel Baytrail Z3740D with 2 GB of RAM which is good for light productivitiy task. The display is IPS, 1366 x 768 HD, display which has a PPI of 155 which is good enough to read articles on reddit, look at pictures and Youtube videos. The battery life is about 10 to 12 hours depending on the use. The keyboard is ten-keyless with some modifaction. There are a few IO ports like microusb to charge the device, full size USB 3.0 on the removable keyboard, microphone and headphone jack and also a face cam. CPU Intel Atom Baytrail processor is twice as fast and uses twice as less power then the older generation Cloverview of processors. I will also like to mention that these processors are also SOC or System On Chip where literly everything from the CPU, RAM, GPU, and almost every logic is built into the same chip. The processor in the T100 is the Z3740D with a maximum of 2 GB of RAM, you may think that 2GB of RAM isn't enough to do things, however with Window 8 the usage of memory has been dermatically reduced, also you got to consider the fact that your not going to run programs like Blender, Photoshop and After Effects and get production grade performace out of this tablet, believe me I tried, it took too long. However the SOC can run programs like Firefox, Chrome, Minecraft at reduced settings and VLC player at watchable or usable frame rates and quality. Really this Atom has the performace of a Celeron with the power consumtion of an Atom. Its quad core so its much faster processing multi-threading operation and running multiple things more effieicently than older generation of Intel processors, while using twice as less power. This is a radical step of Intel toward more power effiecent processors. Intel's new Broadwell CPUs are going to use less power and perfrom better (slightly) then Haswell, which is good for the mobile market, not the gaming or extream overclocker market, which when you consider the fact that electricity is getting more and more expensive and many business expenditures are on electricty. Maybe Intel is going in the right direction, where you can have the power to make moives on the go on a device that turns into a tablet and laptop have 12 hours or more of battery life and can make movies and edit photos like the my machine Blackjack can at home. (Blackjack is my Battlestation, he is 3 years old and needs a GPU upgrade, but other than that he's find) Of course there are people like me who wants a desktop, but there are other people out their who wants a mobile computer that they can do their work on becuase their job or lifestyle wants them to. For me, I was a tablet/laptop like the Transformer T100 with excellent battery life, and performace. Not like those ARM based processors which really you can't do work in, because they don't support MS Office. In fact with Baytrail, MS has no excuse to make an RT based window tablet again. Cutoff the RT brand of Microsoft Surface 2 becuase the App store isn't mature and I can run legacy apps like my T100 can. The RT line of tablets should die in a fire like the original netbook did. Overall the Asus T100 processor can do a lot of light productivity, medium multimedia, internet consumtion task and light gaming, like watching a Youtube video, Reddit, 2048 and Minecraft at reduced settings. Display The display of the T100 is an IPS 1366 by 768 display with 178 degrees of viewing without hard colour distorsions and white and black balences. The problem with the display isn't really the low resolution because 155 PPI is good enough for me, even thought 1080p screen exist on the market in this size form factors with larger resolution existing on the market as well, its a 400 dollar tablet what do you expect. The big problem I have is the glossy screen which is acually reflective even when its on, it gets less noticable the brigter the screen gets, however when you move your head the reflections gets horribly worst. I also didn't like how the screen doesn't tilt back enough, when I use my T100 I tilt my screen all the way back, and still it isn't really good enough, it great that the screen is IPS which doesn't effect me too much unlike TN panels, however I would like the screen to tilt back a little bit further. Other than that the screen is good overall, the brightness is the best in the world and the colour reproductions is the best either however its a 400 dollar tablet. If I need a colour accerate monitor or higher brightness, I can use my Battlestation Blackjack to do the task. The display is only great for watching movies on a car or plane ride or reading the internet or ebooks. Software With netbooks there very rarely comes with bloatware and the T100 is no exception. In fact it comes with Netfilx which is great, its one of the only bloatware that is good and the rest you can uninstall. The device came with Asus webstorge installed which I uninstalled because I use Bittorrent Sync. Movie and photo editors which is similar to MS stock video and photo software and also Line which is a SMS app that I also don't care. If I'm going to text I rather use my phone. Other than that, its stock windows with a free copy of MS Office Home and Student, which makes window netbook/tablet like this deal breaker when you buy them because right now there isn't an app that is as good as MS Office on Android and IOS. The rest you can download off from Ninite or your website of chosing. Hell I downloaded Mincraft onto my device and played it for about 30 minutes. Storage The T100 comes in 4 flavors although right now you can buy it two, those are the 32 GB and 64 GB and in some places you can get them with 500 GB HDD. The internal storage of tablet itself isn't really big with the 32 GB version you only get about 15 GB of space, in fact the 32 GB is really a 40 GB with 8 GB seperate eMMC for the recovery, If you get the 64 GB you get 32 GB free which if your only adding a couple of programs like Chrome or Firefox becuase IE just suck, a couple of light games like Minecraft or 2048 and apps from the app store then your pretty good. I will warn you that you may only carry about 8 movies if there are all in full HD on the 64 GB version. So it better to carry them on a seperate memory stick or load them onto a microSD card and inset it into the right side of the tablet. The eMMC type of SSD storage isn't as fast as a real SSD however you got to consider the fact that this is a tablet not really a laptop so all the hardware is in the tablet not the keyboard. Still the eMMC is still pretty quick loading up appication within 5 seconds. Keyboard The keyboard of the Asus T100 is pretty small, considering which that the keyboard is also ten-keyless. However this isn't really the limitation of the price just more of the size of the tablet. In fact most netbook keyboard's in the early age were like the T100 because the area to putting the keys itself was so small due to the screen size, plus many of the keys are slightly modified in size for example the shift key is half the size on the right size then on the left size. it might be difficulte to type if you have big hands, but thankfully my hands are relativly small for me so typing on this is still some what of a challenge in the first few days, however after that I quickly regain 80 percent of my original typing speed. In fact this entire review is typed on the T100 keyboard. Sound Sound from the T100 isn't the best for even a tablet. However they where loud enough to fill a 15 by 10 by 8 room with only half volume. However if you have a file that has quite sound in the first place then good luck filling up a small room. Headphones however was a slightly better story. My KRK 6400 was able to be powered by the tablet itself and was able to produce some good sound. However at some portion of the soundtrack, it seems that there isn't enough power from the capacitors to the headhpone where it was needed, so these portion fo the sound seems flat and weak. However for a 400 dollar tablet its not bad. The Experience The tablet and netbook experience of the T100 is the best it could have been. It could have been a lot better if some improvement have been made like a brighter screen, a proper window screen button, a slightly better processor like the Z3770D instead of the Z3740D to get slightly better performace, and a couple of other things. It could also be 500 dollars instead and I would still buy it. The plastic build quality isn't that horrible, however it would be nice if the T100 was made out of metel instead of plastic, but I thinks that asking to too much. Over the value of the device is justifiable for its cost. Overall I think the Asus Transformer Book T100 is a good buy for what its worth. I bought mine for 450 dollars instead of the 400 becasue of supply and demand. However for what I'm using for which is note taking, e-reader, reddit, office work and some light productivity use. Its a great tablet/netbook for what its worth. I hoping microsoft is reading this review because there really no reason why we need Window RT for ARM based processors, the point of having a windows tablet is because of the ability of running legacy windows program and full MS programs like Word, Powerpoint, etc. And with Intel Baytrail processor that has the ability to run Window 8.1, maybe the new Microsoft Surface 3 tablet will run a Atom instead of the an ARM based processor.

OK, so I'm using ASUS Transformer Book T100 for about 2 months now, so I got peaty good repression about it and here's my review. First, I'm sorry, my English isn't the best (very sloppy) and the review isn't very detailed because it would felled like I'm selling it to you. Slika I you look at the specks you'll think that it's nothing special, it has 10" screen, 4-core Bay Trail Atom CPU, 2GB of ram and an 64GB SSD. But once you see that you'll getting 32-bit tablet and a keyboard fore less than MS Surface with RT, now that's a good bargain (for me, I don't know about you) Build quality Don't look for high quality in this tablet. The tablet it self has plastic back that is finger magnet and the screen isn't any better. I found my self wiping the screen every few hours when I used as my primary machine for some time. The buttons are located on the top (power button) and on the left side (start button and volume + -) they are OK, sometimes you can't relay feel if you pressed it or not, specially the power button. The keyboard looks like it's from another product and just put together with this tablet by accident. While the tablet is all glossy (screen and plastic body) the keyboard has brushed aluminium feel and look. The keyboard can band if you're not careful and became wonky after time. I had to align it few times. The hinge that connect the tablet and keyboard isn't the best, tablet has few mm of space and it can move for about 1cm back and forward Performance For benchmarking this tablet I used a lot of games (Rouge Legacy, FEZ, Minecraft, HL1, HL2, Portal 2, CSS, ...) and came to the conclusion that with the lowest graphic settings (some can be normal but don't expect nice gameplay), this tablet can be portable gaming best (well not beast but more like cute bunny) with I got about 4 to 5 hours of gameplay (11 to 9 hour battery with just browsing or watching movies). Outputs This tablet hasn't much outputs, on the tablet it self we can find micro-USB (for charging) and micro- HDMI and mic-audio combo 3,5 mm port. On the bottom is Asus proprietary connector for the keyboard and on keyboard, there is only USB-A 3.0. Pros The thing that I like the most is the fact that the speakers don't suck, they can be very loud but they are definitely better than most laptops. Battery last up to 11 hours (field tested Ljubljana, Slovenia - Hannover, Germany) Cons The thing that I don't like the most is the fact that you need to charge the battery through micro-USB, this method is very slow and painful to watch (you're getting 2mA USB charger with the tablet), next thing is screen brightens. I think that this tablet was made for people that are inside the house all day because when you're outside on the bright day and you want to use this tablet, you're getting nothing. The screen brightness is very very low and the fact that this is glossy screen is much worse. When we already talk about the screen I need to mention that the tablet can detect up to 10 fingers but not the pressure. The touchpad is one of the worst on the planet (no comment) Final Conclusion If you need cheap windows tablet with fairly powerful hardware and good battery than this might be tablet for you. BUT I recommend to check some other tablets before you buy this one.

Hi Guys, I was hoping to pick up a asus transformer once newegg or some other trust supplier has restocked the $399 64 gb T100. I was looking around and I haven't been able to find any solid reviews of the product and was wondering if any one on the forums has one and their opinions of it? I'm looking to purchase the T100 for... 1. I'm a student and hoping to have a solid pc-tablet that can function as an e-reader 2. Semi-capable if not just comfortable to do some office work/writing long papers on. I hear the keyboard quality is a bit-iffy think I would be able to plug in one of my keyboards and comfortable use it if i had a stand, I have a mechnical keyboard that I lug around for work and play just because I love it so. 3. With it running an actual OS I hope to be able to do a lot of software tweaks to better merge it along side my pc life. So yeah was wondering everyone's opinion on the product and maybe if there already threads or videos on this I would appreciate the linkage and info.