Ratdude's Tablet Shenanigans Part 4

[ratdude747]

Made a score at a local buy & sell today:



It's a lightly used Asus T200TA tablet with keyboard dock, charger, external DVD burner (looks to be unused, it was in original packaging), and sleeve. Also has 4GB of RAM (stock is 2GB).

I paid $175. My wife is counting it as an early birthday gift.

It has 10 on it now, but the key is for 8.1. I'll figure out which 8.1 version it is and re-install.

Yeah it was an impulse buy... but I had been looking and that dell ST is just too slow.

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Tablet Shenanigans Part 4

Updates:

1. It looks like the key is for coreconnected AKA 8.1 with bing. It also uses x64 UEFI, which means I can actually run x64 windows (yay, major upgrade from the last two bay trail tablets), but also means I need the x64 version of coreconnected. Nothing a torrent can't fix

2. 4GB is the stock memory for this version. Not complaining, 4GB is plenty for what I'll be doing with it. It's no surface pro, but from the bit I've used it (long enough to pull the key with RW everything and check said key) it was nice and snappy. Not much lag. I'll have to novabench it and post the results.

3. I may try arch on it... although I bet many of the bay trail issues still exist.

Still, not bad for $175?

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Tablet Shenanigans Part 4

DOH!

Called the windows 8 version wrong. It's too big to be coreconnected eligible (as I read about in a roundabout way). They key is actually for windows 8.1 stock (aka home). Which the MS tool still works for. Installing now; ASUS had all the drivers/utilities on thier site for download so I have no second thoughts about nuking the 12GB backup partition.

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Tablet Shenanigans Part 4

Posting from it...

I did some research, this is technically a T200TAC. BIOS difference apparently.

With that and the specs (4GB RAM, 64GB SSD), I looked on ebay, similar units are going for $200+ (most were in the upper 200's). I paid $175 + tax and got a brand new external burner and a sleeve on top of it... Score indeed?

Some benchmarks are attached. Not too bad for an 11.6" tablet?

BTW, I checked the keyboard dock, no HDD/SSD installed, although there is indeed a spot for one.

I really like this thing... decent amount of power, not super bulky, and decent build quality. Acceptible battery life. Combined with windows 8.1 (modified) and it's a good experience. No replacement for my workstations or other laptops though.