ASUS Transformer AIO Uses Both Android And Windows 8 In An 18.4″ Form
This is the Transformer AIO. Half Windows 8 all in one, half Android tablet of massive proportions. You can see how it works from the video, but on top of that, it has a button on the side that lets you actively switch between Windows 8 and Android. This fusion is amazing, though I question its practicality.
What is the point, exactly? Windows 8 has a full tablet interface, and I actually think Windows 8 is the future of tablets. A Transformer Prime running only Windows 8 would be the perfect machine. Use the tablet interface when undocked, and use the standard desktop when docked. And you can actually use it as a full featured PC, instead of a semi-useful Android tablet (same goes for iPad, they are nowhere near as useful as computers).
Despite it having no point, I think this is amazing. Even as a gimmick, it looks legitimately fun. And the gimmick is Android. The undocking the entire display is not a gimmick but an actually useful feature (hopefully).
First of all, the thing is way too big! Who wants to carry around an 18" tablet? It removes all the practicality of having a tablet in the first place. And while I agree that Windows 8 is the future of tablets (or at least full-featured PC style OS's are), having Android on it seems redundant and unnecessary. They should have instead figured out how to run Android-based apps in the Windows environment without having to leave the OS.
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