Asus Eee Slate EP121

performance

77% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Display: bright, high contrast, viewing angle stable, High resolution, USB 2.0, System performance, Compatibility, Viable supplies, Finger and stylus inputting, Stable case, The vast functionality with relatively high system performance and the very...

High weight for a tablet, Relatively short battery life, Very stiff USB ports, Reflective display, An AR coated display surface, smoother USB ports and UMTS

Superb display with touch and pen, fast Intel Core i5, runs cool., Excellent AFFS display with capacitive multi-touch and Wacom active digitizer and pen. Fast for a tablet with enough horsepower to handle business and art applications. Runs cool and...

3 hour battery life isn't impressive., Battery life isn't stellar

This is one of the best Windows 7 tablets we’ve seen in years, and one of the few slate designs that targets not just artists and verticals but consumers. The $999 to $1,099 price tag might sound high relative to consumer notebooks, but it’s much...

Intel’s CULV processor is known to perform better than the quite lethargic ATOM. As such, we can expect a multi-tasking tablet that allows full use of Windows’ productivity and office suites. - Despite the 12-inch frame, the EP 121 is lighter and...

There was no way of testing the battery life or the features of the device, as the prototype displayed at Computex 2010 didn’t even power up. Thus, we have no way of knowing yet whether the device gets hot after a certain period of use. If it does,...

For those who are tired of toting heavy laptop anywhere, this lightweight, aluminum-shelled $399 entry from Asus may hit the streets in Q1 2011. With or without a keyboard, the Asus EEE Pad EP121 offers solid computing experience. Plug in the keyboard...

Incredible specification ; Windows 7 compatibility ; Excellent 12.1-inch screen ; Wacom digitizer

Woeful battery life ; Weighty companion ; Windows 7 isn't great on tablets ; Not the cheapest option

There are two kinds of tablet in the world.

All the flexibility of Windows in a Tablet ; Includes Art Rage 3 ; Pressure sensitive stylus ; Sound is surprisingly good ; Well-built ; Included case is quite useful

The same old Windows-touch frustrations ; Definite lag between pen stroke and on-screen result ; Rotation is horrifically laggy ; 125% default DPI causes undesirable scaling with some programs

We've had reservations about Windows 7 as a touch OS ever since Microsoft announced it; however, the Eee Slate EP121 goes some way to alleviating those. It'll likely take Windows 8 to go all the way, and by then, it may be too late. Until then, the Eee...

the cachet of being one of a few, but when that unique club is tablets using Windows 7 many will question its viability as a product unless the target buyers are business people.