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welcome to my unboxing of the Asus Transformer Pad TF 300 I know I'm a little bit late to the punch on this particular unboxing but I think you guys will find that it is worth the wait because the TF 300 is pretty boss so there's not a whole lot that a suit this is this is not a new unit by the way guys we're just gonna and we're gonna pretend that it's new by me making it look more new see there we go now it sort of looks like you know not like 18 five-year old ball sort of we're touching it there we go so there's not a whole lot that a suit says about the unit on the package powered by nvidia tegra this is critical HDMI okay cool nothing and very simplistic packaging is shows the different bat colors so there's red blue and silver and this one is apparently a blue one so we'll verify that in a moment so the Tegra part is key because the TF 300 basically is attempting to achieve almost the same performance as the transformer prime which was the update to the original transformer which was with the Tegra 2 processor however it does so without some of the extra fluff that doesn't add performance so the TF 300 for example forgoes the metal back that had the same concentric circle pattern and instead replaces it with a plastic back the end result I don't know if you guys to remember if you've watched my transformer prime unboxing and first look but the end result is actually quite nice I personally prefer tablets with a plastic back to those with the metal back for a couple of reasons number one is fingerprints fingerprints are pretty much impossible to remove from an aluminum back to device and a lot of the time they will stain over time so the back of the device we'll just look grubby no matter what and then number two is in terms of comfort these are can hear that these circles are slightly ribbed so what that means is when you're holding on to it with your fingers and the cool thing about the circles is no matter where you're holding on to it it'll always be exactly against the grain of your fingers so you actually get a little bit of grip a little bit of resistance to your fingers slipping from the plastic back I personally prefer it it does have a little bit of weight and it does add a touch of thickness about a millimeter if I recall correctly to the transformer prime spec so you got like your eighties logo your ID back mounted camera you got your speaker going on here let's have a look at the overall sort of i/o and let me just see if I can figure out how to turn it on give me a sec guys so while we wait for it to build up a base charge we might as well have a look at the the outside of the unit so we already showed the rear camera so that's an 8 megapixel camera up here is the microphone pinhole and the power button and that's pretty much it for the top so it's very clean looking moving around to the side we've got a volume rocker switch micro HTML micro sd as well as a hard reset button so that's handy to have because even the best OS locks up once in a while and that that's something that I've really felt is missing from other tablet products that exist so here's our three 2.5 millimeter headphone jack and that's it for this side on the bottom we find the power dot connector as well as a couple of clips for the optional keyboard accessories so just like the previous generation TF 101 as well as the prime it has an optional keyboard that you can plug it into which gives you additional i/o additional battery life as well as a full keyboard so the less things that I met so far were the front camera as well as the ambient light sensor so that's gonna give you access to things like automatic screen brightness and and whatnot that way it knows how how bright everything is I think that's pretty much it for the outside of the unit so until it turns on we're gonna have to hold off for now alright guys so we've got it booted up now it only took about it took about an hour to get enough of a charge I think it was just because it was really dead because it was a they had it running like right down to the very end so it's got a boat yeah it's got about a 50% charge after only about an hour of charging so it's good to go so the 1280 by 800 IPS screen is you know it's it's not quite the brilliance and vibrance of the one on the prime the prime is an IPS plus screen whereas this is an IPS screen however it is still really good so I'd say before you see any kind of an issue with brightness or color I'm able to turn it to about here and then to about here so that gives you some idea of the angle if you're using your tablet from this angle you are probably doing it wrong anyway so so that kind of thing is not that big of a concern for me so it uses a slightly downgraded GPU but the same CPU as the prime so what that means is in terms of snappiness responsiveness the Tegra 3 processor in this one is going to give you that long you can clearly see that responsiveness that response to that snap unfortunately our Wi-Fi is down in the tech tips room right now so I'm not going to be able to show you guys that particular actually give me a sec guys for products like this other than the build quality as well as basically the build quality as well as the features it comes down a lot of the time to include software as well so they include a note-taking software as well as a polaris office suite as well as asus is my cloud so my cloud allows you to own look at this got a little introduction what does my cloud do it allows you to carry around music videos and documents in the cloud so you don't actually have to physically throw them on the device but you can still access them as long as you have an internet connection so that gives you a ton of flexibility it's available in 16 gig and 32 gig capacities which means you can store up to that much on the device itself it's got a microSD slot so you can store up to that much more again on the device itself plus you've got your cloud as a place to store things that like documents for example that you never know where you're going to need them from exactly and it's really handy to have them when you need them so right let's do a little bit about Tegra 3 cuz I haven't talked about it for a while so Tegra 3 uses 4 plus 1 CPU cores so it has for performance CPU cores and then one low-power CPU core so when I'm doing nothing when I'm sitting here like this that low-power CPU core is keeping the power consumption of the device at a bare minimum so performance while I'm doing nothing might be less which is fine because it's not doing anything and as soon as I try to do something as soon as I launch a demanding app it will kick in as many of those other cores as much as is needed in order to give me the performance that I need on demand now while I did say that the the transport the something 30l sorry the GPU in here is slightly let the t30 elf is slightly less powerful than the one in the transformer prime the t30 it is still about thirty percent faster than the Tegra 2 GPU so you're still going to be able to run any games even H with HDMI out to to a TV or to a projector or whatever else you want you're going to be able to run any games that you could run on your Tegra 2 device even smoother than what you can do on here so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the masseuse oh right now I forgot about there right right they completely re-engineered the sound solution on this one so one of my complaints about most tablets is that the sound is tinny and and awful so they had their sound team work on their stereo solution which is two small speakers but behind this one grill here that a sleuth claims is actually significantly better in terms of audio quality and accuracy compared to previous generation products so that is pretty darn cool so even though our Wi-Fi is down I decided to just feather my phone so that we can quickly show you guys the browsing and overall responsiveness of the machine now bear in mind yes the internet speed is not what it would be because not only are we running off of 3G but we're running off of terrible 3G because there's so much interference in the tech tips room that almost nothing I'm not I'm gonna come back sorry that almost nothing runs correctly in here when it comes to wireless so I'm just gonna put my phone here which gives me like an additional two bars of reception and hopefully that'll be what we need in order to get this to actually function here so a soos let's go to the soos global site yeah that's right oh look at that so if you've used a tag or two tablet you guys know that that is a lot smoother the Tegra 3 processor just blows away the Tegra 2 when it comes to responsiveness I mean little little things you can tell almost immediately when you sit down and use a tablet how fast it is how responsive it is how usable it is well one of my personal favorite benchmarks is going to the YouTube non mobile site youtube.com and then trying to read comments because it just destroys my iPad 2 as well as my Galaxy Tab 10.1 so where is it desktop site so let's see how the Tegra 3 processor handles it like I can barely even scroll on a video and read comments it's just brutal browser so fast though remember guys I'm running on 3G right now oh I don't want it to be trying to load a video in the background and oh yeah I never even mentioned it but this is ice cream sandwich of course so the latest google OS so you can see there's still a little bit of delay but it's actually way way better than Tegra 2 so Tegra 2 I'll like swipe and then I'll do like three steamboats in the middle go for me it's it can be very very slow times especially if there's a lot of comments so you can see even this one is is dragging a little bit so there you go blah blah blah the zooming and all that stuff looks really good screen looks really sharp actually oh it looks fantastic I have it out full brightness right now as well mmm I missed there we go screen accuracy feels pretty good as well that's the first miss I've had in terms of clicking so we're at at least sort of 95 percent which is about all I all I really expect well someone wants to Linus unboxing speaking of Linus unboxings thank you for checking out this unboxing and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos