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all right ever since I reviewed the Asus Transformer Prime a couple weeks ago I've gotten a lot of questions about the dock I mean it's called the transformer after all so what exactly does it transform into and how good is it the tablet is without a doubt a boss I mean I think we settled that in the review but can it transform into a full laptop replacement let's check this out introducing the Asus Transformer Prime TF 201 plus its dock first of all the dock itself is actually pretty impressive it's a little bit smaller than a full size keyboard yes but the keys are actually pretty comfortable to type on despite their size and you can also see that there are a number of Android specialty keys so on the left hand side you have a dedicated home button and a dedicated search button and on the right hand side you get arrow keys and a dedicated Android Menu button and up top is a smashing array of buttons we have a back button a Wi-Fi toggle a Bluetooth toggle a trackpad lock brightness controls and an auto brightness button a camera shortcut a browser shortcut a settings shortcut media playback and controls with volume and your lock / unlock button which I actually found to be the most useful of them all brilliant it also adds a full-size USB port to the tablet yes full size I'm looking at you other tablet along with its own charging port and LED on the left hand side it has its own charging port because it has an internal battery which it does charge and dispense first so when you're hooked up to the tablet with the keyboard I found that it uses the dock battery then the tablet battery so when you can you know use the tablet for hours while it's plugged in pop off the keyboard and still have a hundred percent battery left on the tablet so that's always really nice so thanks to all of your comments of course I was actually wondering to myself can this replace a laptop is there enough power here is there enough functionality so I hooked it up and well I got to trying to use it trackpad and all and it actually got pretty crazy I found myself flying through the UI opening apps searching stuff and using the hardware keys the way I wouldn't have even thought of before having this keyboard multi-touch gestures were also especially impressive as the trackpad supports long press tapped a click and multi-touch for easy navigation around Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich how but seriously this was pretty pleasant to use and was really nice as you can still use the touchscreen and the keyboard at the same time so you know stuff like the multitasking button or stuff you want to do on the screen they still work so it all blends together in a very dynamic wicked one-of-a-kind experience that I really enjoyed a lot now as you probably know Asus also happens to make some well-respected ultrabooks and lightweight laptops and the most Awkward part of the comparison was actually brace yourself opening it up laptops built to be laptops are weighted and built just right to open up just like in the commercials that is sexy tablets that aren't built to be laptops and not so much I mean maybe I'm nitpicking now but that happened to bug me a lot that it wasn't that easy to open so in the end it kind of begs the question does the transformer prime with the dock compete with a full fledged laptop well to be fair it does match some of the features that netbooks or ultrabooks these days have including the instant on feature ultrabooks with SSDs can resume from sleep in maybe 2 to 3 to 4 seconds and actually opening up the transformer prime it'll actually resume from sleep in maybe less than 1 second typically so yeah to be fair it matches that feature there's also the thinness factor a lot of ultrabooks are very very thin to make them portable and also light and well-built joshan where Prime is not really that much different it's very very thin the dock is very thin so put together they are really well connected and a pretty solid well-built and lightweight portable machine so so far it's looking pretty good and let's not forget that the transformer prime and the transformer prime dock put together still probably cost less than the machine you're watching this on it's very inexpensive compared to most laptops so can it replace your laptop well here's the thing look at what you do on your laptop if you do pretty light consumption right now maybe watching YouTube videos even answering emails reading emails we're processing sometimes some light photo editing you're gonna be just fine with the transformer prime handles all that and the Tegra 3 is an absolute boss so you won't have full-size apps like you know Microsoft Word or Photoshop or just heavy hitters like that but if you don't need that you know take a look in the Android Market and if you find the apps that you want and they actually work for you you'll be set the laptop the transformer prime most closely resembles is the Samsung Chromebook I mean if you think about it the transformer prime is really a quad-core Chromebook either way if you enjoyed this video thanks for watching I hope it helped you out if you're considering this particular purchase give a thumbs up on this leave a thumbs up on this video I'd really appreciate it and thanks for all the the ratings and the subscriptions guys really do appreciate every single one of you so like I said thanks for watching this video and I'll talk to you next time MVP HP signing out peace