32GB Asus VivoTab 10.1" Wi-Fi Windows 8 RT Tablet with VivoTab Keyboard Docking Station $350 + Free Shipping

Quote from uhsarp : I was waiting for a full featured windows 8 tablet for $150 - $300 (call me crazy but I'm a true slickdealer) even if I have to wait for a few months. Not at all ready to spend $800 -$1200 for a surface pro. But I jumped on this deal because the price seems to be good. Now I'm wondering if its worth it considering the limited support of apps and most importantly the inability to install native apps. Anybody else in the same boat and planning to return without opening it?

would you be willing to sell it to me, and ship it to Denmark for a small Premeium, I waited a tad to long yesterday to get it directly through adorama.

getting mine tomorrow!

Quote from uhsarp : I was waiting for a full featured windows 8 tablet for $150 - $300 (call me crazy but I'm a true slickdealer) even if I have to wait for a few months. Not at all ready to spend $800 -$1200 for a surface pro. But I jumped on this deal because the price seems to be good. Now I'm wondering if its worth it considering the limited support of apps and most importantly the inability to install native apps. Anybody else in the same boat and planning to return without opening it?

I'm not gonna lie...I thought about it. However, after spending several hours doing research, I came to the conclusion that it's a really good tablet at $350. I really just wanted something with light weight, mobility, and around 10" or higher. I already own a gaming desktop that I put together and an Asus Republic of Gamers laptop, so this Vivotab (with keyboard) will fill in for my frustratingly bad HP Touchpad. The Touchpad, even with Android, was a mess and I'll be happy to get rid of it.

Just ask yourself what you really need your tablet to do. Web browsing and Microsoft Office? RT will get the job done just fine.

I'll buy it for $375 if anyone is having buyers remorse.

I was planning to use it for video streaming, browsing (with roboform plugin! Really HATE to type in firstname,lastname, address, CC info and filling forms while shopping or causal browsing. And the android roboform plugin sucks) So I wanted a windows tablet with roboform support and seamless Windows network sharing (CIFS in android). No sane person should have to copy files & videos to a tablet before you can play on it (for offline content.. not talking about cloud).
But being a frugal person and after being burned down by other tablets before, I felt like maybe I should wait for a few more months for one of surface pro tablets to be offered on sale.. maybe around $350 like this one. Wouldn't that be worth the wait?

Quote from Barbados82 : I'm not gonna lie...I thought about it. However, after spending several hours doing research, I came to the conclusion that it's a really good tablet at $350. I really just wanted something with light weight, mobility, and around 10" or higher. I already own a gaming desktop that I put together and an Asus Republic of Gamers laptop, so this Vivotab (with keyboard) will fill in for my frustratingly bad HP Touchpad. The Touchpad, even with Android, was a mess and I'll be happy to get rid of it. Just ask yourself what you really need your tablet to do. Web browsing and Microsoft Office? RT will get the job done just fine.

Quote from uhsarp : I was planning to use it for video streaming, browsing (with roboform plugin! Really HATE to type in firstname,lastname, address, CC info and filling forms while shopping or causal browsing. And the android roboform plugin sucks) So I wanted a windows tablet with roboform support and seamless Windows network sharing (CIFS in android). No sane person should have to copy files & videos to a tablet before you can play on it (for offline content.. not talking about cloud). But being a frugal person and after being burned down by other tablets before, I felt like maybe I should wait for a few more months for one of surface pro tablets to be offered on sale.. maybe around $350 like this one. Wouldn't that be worth the wait?

I know what you mean about being burned. Granted, the only tablet I really had was the Touchpad (unless you count the original Nook Color too).

As for the Windows 8 tablets? You're probably going to be waiting for awhile. I highly doubt they will drop in price, especially to $350, anytime soon.

I owned a touchpad and switched to a native android tablet first chance I got. Touchpad felt terrible after the transition.
I'm a bit more optimistic about finding a good deal on the win 8 tablets later this year. Many reasons for this. As next generation tablets make their way out, these first generation tablet prices have to come down. Secondly, Microsoft sales figures aren't that good and they will offer them on sale from time to time in the coming months. Also more manufacturers will be producing windows 8 tablets as the rt ecosystem is in the process of evolving which will foster competition and bring the prices down. Six months is a long time in the smartphone/tablet business. I bought Note 1 for $600 a couple of months after it was released. 6 months later (and now) I can get a nice used one for $300 on cowboom. Moreover I bet I'll find a full featured windows 8 tablet for $300 to $400 this black friday.

But the question is are we willing to wait that long to save a few hundred bucks to get a full windows 8 tablet? The answer for me is yes because here's the math if I hold on to this rt and buy a full win 8 tablet in november.

rt price = $350
pro price (estd in nov) = $400

by then I can probably sell rt for ~$200
so total cost would be $750-$200 = $550

so one would be paying $150 approx. just for owing a tablet till bf 2013. Since I have a note, I can probably wait. And if we get lucky, we might find a better deal for the same price in the next couple of months.

Quote from Barbados82 : I know what you mean about being burned. Granted, the only tablet I really had was the Touchpad (unless you count the original Nook Color too). As for the Windows 8 tablets? You're probably going to be waiting for awhile. I highly doubt they will drop in price, especially to $350, anytime soon.

Quote from disoneviet : So it's pretty responsive? I read some posts on the old thread and some complained about it opening the Office programs slow and whatnot.

The version of Office that shipped pre-installed was a beta, and it was sluggish. Running Windows Update to get the final version of Office made it plenty responsive.

Likewise, there were a couple OS and firmware updates early on that sped things up and generally made things feel snappy. Compared to the Surface Pro, apps load slower, but if you don't have that to compare, the load times aren't bad.

Except for the mail app. It's kind of a slug and I hope it gets a major update soon.

Quote from tommitls : oooh didn't realize you could really play games using RDP...figure it would be too laggy

Remote Desktop is greatly improved when going Windows 8 to Windows 8. You wouldn't want to play anything fast twitch (Jetpack Joyride is a bad idea), but you'd be surprised what is playable, especially on a fast network.

Mines out for delivery. Should be here to my office within an hour or so. pretty stoked to play with it. kinda bored with ios and android. theres already a way to root it and an x86 emulator and people porting apps so should be fun to tinker with at least for a while


http://forum.xda-developers.com/f...php?f=2130

Quote from wksk : Mines out for delivery. Should be here to my office within an hour or so. pretty stoked to play with it. kinda bored with ios and android. theres already a way to root it and an x86 emulator and people porting apps so should be fun to tinker with at least for a while http://forum.xda-developers.com/f...php?f=2130

Just got it in. The unit itself seems solid in the hand. really digging the windows 8 platform so far. its nice to be able to use a mouse. im very excited about this purchase. thanks again op

Quote from wksk : Just got it in. The unit itself seems solid in the hand. really digging the windows 8 platform so far. its nice to be able to use a mouse. im very excited about this purchase. thanks again op

post a video review..

When I updated the tablet, the icons on the taskbar for all the Office programs aren't showing up, they're all white pages, instead of the standard images. Anyone know how to fix this? Already tried restarting, shutting down.

I wish I had a solution for you. I've owned 3 different brands of RT tablets and have not seen this on any of them both before and after the Office RT update. You may get an answer if you post your situation on the Surface forum:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-u.../surfwinrt