Asus Transformer TF101 10.1" ICS tablet $269. *with* keyboard dock $319 @ Groupon refurb

The Deal

$269 for an ASUS TF101-X1 Android Transformer tablet (manufacturer refurbished) ($469.99 list price; $289.99 average retail sell price)
$319 for an ASUS TF101-X1 Android Transformer tablet (manufacturer refurbished) ($469.99 list price) with an ASUS TF101 keyboard dock ($159.99 list price; $629.98 total)

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Better deal is with the dock IMHO. It normally sells for $99 separately.

Best deal on Transformer I've seen yet.

Anyone know if the Android 3.0 version can be upgraded to the new Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0)?

oyruu said:   Yeah, it's upgradable to ICS, but this price is a meh

I'm not too sure about price being meh, but if you've seen a better price elsewhere, I'd love to know where and how to get one.

The dock makes this a 15-hour tab, supposedly, and has HDMI ... I want one, but I just got a Galaxy Tab 2 7" ... maybe I'll sell it and trade up to this. hrmmm

Sk8terboy said:   oyruu said:   Yeah, it's upgradable to ICS, but this price is a meh

I'm not too sure about price being meh, but if you've seen a better price elsewhere, I'd love to know where and how to get one.

The dock makes this a 15-hour tab, supposedly, and has HDMI ... I want one, but I just got a Galaxy Tab 2 7" ... maybe I'll sell it and trade up to this. hrmmm

Have seen better for the tablet alone new, but it's the best price I've seen with keyboard dock.
I've been running ICS on it for a few months.
Good thing about Asus is they have update very frequently.

It's actually very annoying to NOT update to ICS, the update message keeps popping up, I was wanting to keep the TF101 running Android 3.0 because I read about some problems TF101 has running ICS, but eventually, I did update to ICS and found it's fairly stable (has one random reboot last month), but so far, so good.

this is pretty hot for essentially an extremely slim tablet with the keyboard/dock. Coworker has one, great device/appliance. He did a lot of work on his to get it turned into a real laptop , i.e. with ssh, and all the normal linux tools installed.

Is this the one that had gps problems they had to fix with an external dongle?

I've had the TF101 + keyboard for almost a year.

If you get the TF101, you should get the keyboard dock too. The combination is what makes this tablet stand out among the competition.

If you haven't tried typing an email on a standard tablet, try it out at the store. Then try the Transformer keyboard. It's not as good as a standard PC keyboard, but it's much superior to typing on a tablet. The dock also has mini-HDMI out, SD slot, and a USB slot, in addition to the extra battery. I'd guess that I can get 15 hours of life playing games and watching videos with the dock. Plus you don't really need a case or stand if you get the dock.

Asus pushes firmware updates out automatically (including ICS). I did have tons of trouble with the original ICS update (and the next two patches), and had to wait 2-3 months for Asus to finally fix the problem, but Asus did finally solve the problem. Right now, I have an annoying "update your firmware" nag screen that keeps popping up. After the ICS debacle, I am afraid to update until I see more evidence that no major problems have been introduced.

should mention refurb in the title!