WEBVTT 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:15.839 Today's unboxing is going to be a tablet accessory, but uh probably the most 00:00:13.120 --> 00:00:20.960 compelling tablet accessory that has yet to exist. So, no, I'm not talking about, 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:25.439 you know, cute little carrying cases or jewel encrusted well carrying cases or I 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:30.880 mean really that seems to be what most tablet accessories are these days is 00:00:27.840 --> 00:00:33.120 carrying cases. But no, this is the 00:00:30.880 --> 00:00:38.399 Transformer Prime. Well, E-PAD Transformer Prime keyboard dock 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:41.520 attachment. And uh this is the black or gray or whatever they want to call it. 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:45.200 It's that color. It's not the other color. So, that goes with the 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 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:54.719 here. We got HDMI powered by NVIDIA Tegra. Tegra 3, mind you. Um although 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:58.239 that's not in the keyboard attachment itself. So, what is the keyboard 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:03.280 attachment itself? Well, it does a few things. One, it's a keyboard. Okay, so 00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:10.640 that part is fairly self-explanatory. There's the keyboard aspect of it. Uh 00:01:06.080 --> 00:01:12.400 two, it is like uh remember those old uh 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:15.760 docking stations that you used to get for old notebooks that had like 00:01:14.080 --> 00:01:19.280 additional expansion? Like they'd have a parallel port for your printer and stuff 00:01:17.520 --> 00:01:24.000 like that? Well, this is kind of like that as well because it has additional 00:01:21.759 --> 00:01:27.360 I/IO including actually uh you know what, we'll go through the additional IO 00:01:25.360 --> 00:01:32.880 later. And then last but not least, it also has an additional supplementary 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 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 00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:47.040 do is once you plug it into your Transformer Prime, it does charge the 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:51.119 Prime's battery off of the battery that is on the keyboard dock itself, which is 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:55.600 very, very cool. So, we get a touchpad, we get a keyboard, we get some 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:59.520 additional IO, and we get additional battery life. How can you go wrong? 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:05.759 Well, there's one way to go wrong. No, unfortunately, your old keyboard dock is 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:08.000 not compatible with the new Transformer 00:02:05.759 --> 00:02:13.160 and your new Transformer keyboard dock is not trans. I 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:16.160 wonder is this going to work? 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:24.720 Hm. No. Okay. So, your new keyboard dock 00:02:22.480 --> 00:02:27.760 is not compatible with the old ASUS Transformer. So, why don't we have a 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 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:34.720 mean, the Transformer Prime is just leagues ahead of the original 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 00:02:38.160 --> 00:02:45.959 at the keyboard layout itself, actually. So, we've got correctly positioned shift 00:02:43.200 --> 00:02:50.560 keys, correctly positioned enter, long backspace. Overall, no complaints. It's 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:55.040 a chicklet style keyboard. Very short travel distances on these keys, but that 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:57.920 is to be expected because the last thing you want is high-profile keys that are 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:02.319 going to stand a chance of scratching your keypad or uh scratching your screen 00:03:00.640 --> 00:03:05.680 when you have the thing closed. The hinge looks like it's very high quality. 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 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, 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:18.159 though. Um, so every part of the hinge should be very, very robust. There's the 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:21.760 lock button. So, uh Oh, yeah. I'm guessing that moves once I actually plug 00:03:19.760 --> 00:03:25.599 something into it. And you can see the Transformer Prime's ASUS's proprietary 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:29.760 docking connector right down there. You've also got a number of hotkeys. So, 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:32.959 instead of F keys, uh, we've replaced all of those with just pure hotkeys. So, 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, 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:41.840 Bluetooth, brightness up, brightness down, auto brightness. Uh, is that 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 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:50.560 prefer you use Chrome. Um, full certy keyboard and touchpad, easy file sharing 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. 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:57.120 So, what do we got here? This is a U 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:01.319 Okay, whatever it's labeled. That's a USB port. Right over here is a 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:08.239 full-sized SD card slot. On the other side, we 00:04:05.239 --> 00:04:09.840 have Oh, okay. Right. So, that replaces 00:04:08.239 --> 00:04:13.599 the dock connector on the bottom of the Transformer Prime when it's plugged into 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 00:04:16.239 --> 00:04:20.880 as well as the Transformer Prime once they're connected together. I want you 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 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:30.639 brush metal finish even on the bottom of the device. So ASUS has really taken a 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:36.639 page out of Apple's book when it comes to finishing every aspect of the device 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 00:04:38.479 --> 00:04:45.520 more like the traditional PC approach, which is to take the underside of things 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 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:52.960 taking out these rubber inserts and I'm going to go ahead and plug the 00:04:50.320 --> 00:04:59.199 Transformer Prime into the docking station. So, with the actual 00:04:56.520 --> 00:05:02.320 intended tablet, this should be far less difficult than it was when I was trying 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 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 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:17.199 detected in a pretty Yep, there we go. Docking connected. Use You got to be 00:05:15.520 --> 00:05:24.880 kidding me. There's the instructions. Use keyboard to type words. Thank you 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:26.400 Google and ASUS for that. So, I just 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 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 00:05:32.320 --> 00:05:38.400 compared to the older ASUS Transformer, which is right here. So, you can see 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:43.120 that even with the keyboard dock, the new Transformer isn't that much thicker 00:05:41.039 --> 00:05:47.520 than the old Transformer, which is very, very cool. ASUS has done a fantastic job 00:05:45.440 --> 00:05:51.759 with the Transformer Prime. Now you compare it to something like this is a 00:05:49.280 --> 00:05:55.759 first generation Acer Aspire 1. Look how thin it is compared to a netbook. This 00:05:53.680 --> 00:06:00.160 netbook with the battery it has which is not a six cell battery is only capable 00:05:58.080 --> 00:06:05.360 of about 2 hours of battery life whereas the Transformer Prime is capable of well 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:09.759 over 14 hours of battery life once you include the extra keyboard dock. The 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 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 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 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. 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 00:06:29.840 --> 00:06:39.120 glass replaced. So, there is the profile compared to the iPad 2. So, here we go. 00:06:35.919 --> 00:06:40.800 Transformer 1, iPad 2, Transformer Prime 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:44.560 with Tegra 3, and the additional keyboard dock. Thank you for checking 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:51.280 out my unboxing and first look at the keyboard dock and this beautiful little 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:53.120 piece of machinery from ASUS. Don't 00:06:51.280 --> 00:06:59.120 forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:59.120 computer videos.