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hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d in this is my review of the Asus TP 200 so I've done quite a few reviews of hybrid devices like the whole to one thing and for the most part they're pretty expensive some of them are even over $1500 but this one's a relatively inexpensive option that's offered by Asus here's my review it's a simple box when you open it up you get the device itself the charger and some pamphlets the top surface of the device is aluminum it's a really dark blue not quite black and it has a brushed finish like they've done on several of their devices here it's actually kind of cool that they're giving the same high-end finish on an entry-level device like this the bottom is plastic it's got four rubber feet two speakers and the internals are not upgradable everything is soldered on on the inside the specs on the unit I have it's got a quad core Intel n 3700 so this is their Pentium chip running at 1.6 gigahertz and 11.6 inch IPS touchscreen four gigs of ram onboard graphics 128 gigs of expandable storage all for around $450 the build quality overall seems really solid but the hinge swivels around a little easier than I expected it's not loose or anything it's just a really smooth rotating hinge now the company says that it tests the hinge 20,000 times before they ship each device so we're probably good maybe they just designed them like this so that you can flip it in one hand I don't know okay going around we have a power connection a volume rocker power switch micro sd mini HDMI a regular USB 3 port and one of the new USB 3.1 ports so this is a port that can push up to five gigabits per second it's super fast and on the other side we have a combo microphone headphone jack and a USB 2.0 port when you open up the TP 200 it's got a plastic finish that has like a brushed grain finish the keyboard is nice to type on it's small but it doesn't feel cramped when you're typing on it the keys have good travel at one point six millimeters but I wish they're a little more springy and not so squishy the arrow keys are well positioned they're just a little small than normal overall it's a great keyboard but it's missing backlighting and back wedding is one of those things that you kind of take for granted when you have it on a device and when it's not there you really miss it the trackpad down here is really large for the size of the device it's a full size trackpad and it's okay I mean the texture is good clicking is good but like almost every other Windows trackpad it still has the occasional stutter when you're tracking but it's okay the screen it's an 11.6 inch IPS touchscreen running at 1366 by 768 it's not super high res but I think going with the lower res screen like this was the right choice given the power of the video card so going higher Reds might have looked better but graphical performance would have been noticeably worse the colors look kind of greenish to me and running a spider shows that the color range is pretty limited we're coming in at 69% srgb and 51% Adobe RGB so if your work needs good color accuracy this isn't that device the viewing angles aren't great I've definitely seen worse at this price point but they're still not very good the screen does get really bright though as bright as a Macbook retina Pro screen when you use it in tablet mode the keyboard deactivates automatically so you can't accidentally press keys and stuff it's really comfortable to use my issue with a lot of two-in-one hybrid devices or flip devices is that they're often cumbersome to hold they're just really heavy in tala mode and the TP 200 is pretty light it's 2.6 pans and because it's an 11-point 6 inch screen instead of like the 13 inch screen it's just really ergonomic so if you think about it a tablet with a 13 inch screen I mean it's really cool on paper but it's really big like even the iPad pro isn't even that big so this has a smaller footprint it's comfortable to use in tablet mode the webcam up top isn't very good but if you need one it's there here's what it looks like the speakers are surprisingly good they're reasonably loud and they're pretty clear here's what they sound like now the whole device is fanless so it's completely quiet when it's not in use and it gets a little warm on the left side when you push it hard but it's not uncomfortable to use all right performance the storage uses emmc flash chips so it's sufficient for normal computer use but for solid-state storage these chips are relatively slow the TP 200 comes in two variants a dual-core chip which is slower and slightly cheaper and a quad-core chip which we have here the quad core is pretty solid for any kind of basic task I threw at it so like YouTube web browsing emails movies like all of these things run really smoothly on Windows 10 Photoshop runs a little slow on it especially when you have a lot of layers going on but for normal computing use it's going to handle it well but where the processor shows its limitations is when you're playing games so slightly demanding games like dota 2 they don't run very smooth on it we're talking like 20 frames per second or slower and even really like games like counter-strike we're still only getting 25 maybe 30 frames per second now you have to keep in mind it is a laptop it is a tablet and it's 450 dollars so even though I wish it was faster I'm pretty happy with the performance because it's an entry-level two in one device the battery life is okay it's not great it's a small battery at 38 watt hours and the advertised and eight hour battery life but with regular use just browse on the web watch some YouTube stuff and doing some emails I was hitting 5 hours with screen at 80 percent brightness watching movies with screen also at around 80% I was able to get 5 and 1/2 hours a little bit more I mean these numbers aren't bad but on a two-in-one device battery life can be really important for some users and I was hoping to get closer to the advertised 8 hours ok for 450 dollars I would consider this a good purchase if you're going to make use of the two-in-one functionality as a laptop pretty good solid keyboard and as a tablet also very solid because of the reasonable weight but there are things I don't like about it the battery life I wish it was a little bit better but more importantly the performance of the CPU it's very mediocre and at this price point I can't really complain but that's why I mentioned the importance of tune 1 because if you're going to use it just as a laptop there are other devices at this price point that I would commend that aren't convert while they're just straight-up laptops but if you are going to make use of the two one option I think this is a good option that's the end of the review hope you guys liked it thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it it's been nice I'll see you guys next time