Transformer Prime: Finally a Replacement for Your Laptop?

The brand new Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime came out only a few weeks ago, and this tablet is already being heralded as the first tablet that could be realistically seen as a laptop replacement.

What makes the Transformer series of tablets different from just about anything else on the market is their use of an innovative keyboard dock, which adds both extra battery life and notebook PC functionality. Seen in the Prime yet again, the keyboard dock has even better quality than the last one did.

But can you really replace everything you did on your laptop with a tablet? Yes. Yes you can.

A virtual keyboard is not quite enough to ditch your laptop, but with the dock, that all becomes a distant memory.

The Transformer Prime recently got upgraded to Android 4.0, which allows the quad-core Tegra 3 processor to really shine. Not only that, you can also run beautiful games and Sunrise Highway Toyota websites on this as well.

So, if you’re an avid gamer, web browser, online classifieds checker, document creator, or businessman trying to work on multiple spreadsheets at once, the Prime could easily take over your main computing needs.

While it’s not exactly smart to ditch the laptop completely because you still may need it to do more labor intensive work like photo or video editing, these may literally be one of the only reasons to do so.

So, can you really use a shiny, new tablet to replace all of your computing needs? While there may be some reasons to keep a laptop, the list considerably shrinks when you have a quad-core tablet that is capable to doing many things just as fast or faster just sitting around.

That said, the time is steadily approaching when tablet PCs may replace laptops altogether. At CES, we even saw Windows 8 laptop/tablet hybrids that flipped and connected seamlessly, so that time may be closer than we know it.

And as we see Windows creating an operating system that will work for both mobile devices and computers, even Microsoft sees this shift in usability.

The time is now! Time to buy a tablet and ditch that laptop (for most of the time)!

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