1 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:15,839 Today's unboxing is going to be a tablet accessory, but uh probably the most 2 00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:20,960 compelling tablet accessory that has yet to exist. So, no, I'm not talking about, 3 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:25,439 you know, cute little carrying cases or jewel encrusted well carrying cases or I 4 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:30,880 mean really that seems to be what most tablet accessories are these days is 5 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:33,120 carrying cases. But no, this is the 6 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:38,399 Transformer Prime. Well, E-PAD Transformer Prime keyboard dock 7 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:41,520 attachment. And uh this is the black or gray or whatever they want to call it. 8 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:45,200 It's that color. It's not the other color. So, that goes with the 9 00:00:42,879 --> 00:00:48,960 Transformer Prime that I have here. So, you can see there's a couple of logos on 10 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:54,719 here. We got HDMI powered by NVIDIA Tegra. Tegra 3, mind you. Um although 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:58,239 that's not in the keyboard attachment itself. So, what is the keyboard 12 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:03,280 attachment itself? Well, it does a few things. One, it's a keyboard. Okay, so 13 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:10,640 that part is fairly self-explanatory. There's the keyboard aspect of it. Uh 14 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:12,400 two, it is like uh remember those old uh 15 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:15,760 docking stations that you used to get for old notebooks that had like 16 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:19,280 additional expansion? Like they'd have a parallel port for your printer and stuff 17 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:24,000 like that? Well, this is kind of like that as well because it has additional 18 00:01:21,759 --> 00:01:27,360 I/IO including actually uh you know what, we'll go through the additional IO 19 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:32,880 later. And then last but not least, it also has an additional supplementary 20 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:36,720 battery. So, okay, what ASUS has to say is dock and charge the pad for up to 18 21 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:42,640 hours of battery life. That seems a little optimistic, especially based on what I've seen so far. But what it does 22 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:47,040 do is once you plug it into your Transformer Prime, it does charge the 23 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:51,119 Prime's battery off of the battery that is on the keyboard dock itself, which is 24 00:01:48,799 --> 00:01:55,600 very, very cool. So, we get a touchpad, we get a keyboard, we get some 25 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:59,520 additional IO, and we get additional battery life. How can you go wrong? 26 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:05,759 Well, there's one way to go wrong. No, unfortunately, your old keyboard dock is 27 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:08,000 not compatible with the new Transformer 28 00:02:05,759 --> 00:02:13,160 and your new Transformer keyboard dock is not trans. I 29 00:02:10,599 --> 00:02:16,160 wonder is this going to work? 30 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:24,720 Hm. No. Okay. So, your new keyboard dock 31 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:27,760 is not compatible with the old ASUS Transformer. So, why don't we have a 32 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:31,920 closer look at it? So, you're going to see it's got a great finish to it. I 33 00:02:29,599 --> 00:02:34,720 mean, the Transformer Prime is just leagues ahead of the original 34 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:40,800 Transformer in terms of the overall build quality. Check out the brushed metal finish here. Uh, let's have a look 35 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:45,959 at the keyboard layout itself, actually. So, we've got correctly positioned shift 36 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:50,560 keys, correctly positioned enter, long backspace. Overall, no complaints. It's 37 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:55,040 a chicklet style keyboard. Very short travel distances on these keys, but that 38 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:57,920 is to be expected because the last thing you want is high-profile keys that are 39 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:02,319 going to stand a chance of scratching your keypad or uh scratching your screen 40 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:05,680 when you have the thing closed. The hinge looks like it's very high quality. 41 00:03:04,239 --> 00:03:09,280 You can see it's quite difficult for me to move it right now, but once the uh 42 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:14,080 the transformer primes on there, giving me additional leverage, it should be fine. Very solid metal construction, 43 00:03:12,159 --> 00:03:18,159 though. Um, so every part of the hinge should be very, very robust. There's the 44 00:03:16,159 --> 00:03:21,760 lock button. So, uh Oh, yeah. I'm guessing that moves once I actually plug 45 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:25,599 something into it. And you can see the Transformer Prime's ASUS's proprietary 46 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,760 docking connector right down there. You've also got a number of hotkeys. So, 47 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:32,959 instead of F keys, uh, we've replaced all of those with just pure hotkeys. So, 48 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:37,680 you don't actually have to hold down a function key in order to make it happen. So, we've got, you know, your wireless, 49 00:03:36,159 --> 00:03:41,840 Bluetooth, brightness up, brightness down, auto brightness. Uh, is that 50 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:47,280 really the internet button? Cuz that looks an awful lot like an Internet Explorer thing, but I'm sure they'd 51 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:50,560 prefer you use Chrome. Um, full certy keyboard and touchpad, easy file sharing 52 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:55,680 with built-in ah SD cards and USB. So, I want to show you guys the improved IO. 53 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:57,120 So, what do we got here? This is a U 54 00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:01,319 Okay, whatever it's labeled. That's a USB port. Right over here is a 55 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:08,239 full-sized SD card slot. On the other side, we 56 00:04:05,239 --> 00:04:09,840 have Oh, okay. Right. So, that replaces 57 00:04:08,239 --> 00:04:13,599 the dock connector on the bottom of the Transformer Prime when it's plugged into 58 00:04:11,519 --> 00:04:17,919 the uh to the base station. So, that's how you'll charge both the keyboard dock 59 00:04:16,239 --> 00:04:20,880 as well as the Transformer Prime once they're connected together. I want you 60 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:25,600 guys to check out the bottom. I've put a couple fingerprints on it already, but you know how it is. So, there's your 61 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:30,639 brush metal finish even on the bottom of the device. So ASUS has really taken a 62 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:36,639 page out of Apple's book when it comes to finishing every aspect of the device 63 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:40,880 in as beautiful a way as possible rather than sort of what I would consider to be 64 00:04:38,479 --> 00:04:45,520 more like the traditional PC approach, which is to take the underside of things 65 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:48,720 like a notebook and um and not really worry too much about them. So I'm just 66 00:04:47,199 --> 00:04:52,960 taking out these rubber inserts and I'm going to go ahead and plug the 67 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:59,199 Transformer Prime into the docking station. So, with the actual 68 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:02,320 intended tablet, this should be far less difficult than it was when I was trying 69 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:08,000 to do it with the wrong one. So, you just got to make sure you have it lined up right. There it goes. It locks into 70 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:13,120 place. And then all you got to do is boot this bad boy up and it should be 71 00:05:10,639 --> 00:05:17,199 detected in a pretty Yep, there we go. Docking connected. Use You got to be 72 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:24,880 kidding me. There's the instructions. Use keyboard to type words. Thank you 73 00:05:21,199 --> 00:05:26,400 Google and ASUS for that. So, I just 74 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:30,560 wanted to show you guys what the profile of the device is like. You know what? Actually, give me a sec. I'll be right 75 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:34,800 back. So, it occurs to me. I want to show you guys the profile of the device 76 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:38,400 compared to the older ASUS Transformer, which is right here. So, you can see 77 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:43,120 that even with the keyboard dock, the new Transformer isn't that much thicker 78 00:05:41,039 --> 00:05:47,520 than the old Transformer, which is very, very cool. ASUS has done a fantastic job 79 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:51,759 with the Transformer Prime. Now you compare it to something like this is a 80 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:55,759 first generation Acer Aspire 1. Look how thin it is compared to a netbook. This 81 00:05:53,680 --> 00:06:00,160 netbook with the battery it has which is not a six cell battery is only capable 82 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:05,360 of about 2 hours of battery life whereas the Transformer Prime is capable of well 83 00:06:02,639 --> 00:06:09,759 over 14 hours of battery life once you include the extra keyboard dock. The 84 00:06:07,919 --> 00:06:13,600 last thing I want to compare it to in terms of its size once you put the 85 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:17,840 keyboard on is the iPad 2. Just because it's kind of the de facto standard for 86 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:22,080 tablet comparisons, I want to make sure that I have it in there so you guys have 87 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:27,520 a clear idea. Oh, it's even more broken than it was before. Oh, what a bummer. 88 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:32,720 That's that uh crack keeps spreading. I might have to uh might have to get that 89 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:39,120 glass replaced. So, there is the profile compared to the iPad 2. So, here we go. 90 00:06:35,919 --> 00:06:40,800 Transformer 1, iPad 2, Transformer Prime 91 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:44,560 with Tegra 3, and the additional keyboard dock. Thank you for checking 92 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:51,280 out my unboxing and first look at the keyboard dock and this beautiful little 93 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:53,120 piece of machinery from ASUS. 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