The Weird Convertible Laptop | Asus T100TA Review 

The T100TA is perfect, even in 2022. I Love this laptop because if you damage the screen, it doesn’t go funny. And also, it lasts days on a single charge. And runs just fine. Got ROBLOX and ROBLOX studio on it, running fine, as usual. I’m working on upgrading it to a copy of windows 10 or 11, but I gotta make sure the system specs are correct. I Love the laptop.

I have this got it for $35 it’s honestly a really great small computer on windows 10. Runs snappy and I have full 2016 office running on it. Runs fine its small portable and a windows tablet to boot I love it.

My wife's grandmother had one and ask me to repair it since it was always full (32gb capacity I think). It was very slow and she could not do the updates anymore because it was full. I installed Mint on it and it worked like a charm, nothing was not working. Plenty of spare space too. She is super happy with her tablet and I was : Oh my god this thing is awesome !! I want a linux tablet too ! Soooo I bought a thinkpad X1 tab for 400$ 256gb ssd and I love it too. My god I love linux !!!

You do know there was also a 4gb version of this? The reason why it did well for people on the go like me was its low weight and thinness plus separating the tablet from the keyboard allowed me to have better entertainment than my cellphone in places where there is no TV or large monitor. It was never meant to game but its great for media consumption with out wearing out my shoulder with all the bags I'm forced by work to carry. I wouldn't have gone for Ubuntu. Puppy Linux would fly on that. The laptops it faced off were bulky and heavy.

I used to use one of these as my main laptop/tablet. It was a nice little machine. I even ran Win10 LTSC 2019 on mine, worked just fine. I mostly watched RU-vid and did some basic word processing in MS Word. The micro hdmi port was very nice, I bought an adaptor so I could use an external monitor at home for tasks that I didn't need my desktop for. The 1366x768 IPS screen looks great at this size and before I accidentally broke the screen on it, it was a great portable machine. Since it's not too expensive to fix, I'll try and fix it up and maybe for the fun of it, force windows 7 on it against its will. and yes there is a way to do that on a machine like this, but it takes a lot of work for not that much more performance compared to windows 8.

Cool little thing

Hi! Is there a way to make a tutorial how to installed Linux on asus t100ta? And what linux you got? I literally just need for browsing, and tbh Discord, Parsec, and that's all. Thanks a lot in advance!

Man i remembered playing an FPS game with this laptop from the microsoft store with 1 gig ram. When the os died i was going to upgrade it to win10 but then i saw the old videos of the game with the best moments and apparently it was working fine but a bit of lag spike. Unfortualy i upgraded to win 10 and lost everything

I think you expect a little bit too much from a 4W CPU launched in late 2013.... I still use this transformerbook today occasionally for car diagnostic software and software that connects to measurement devices (multimeters and such), and sometimes some light browsing and office tasks. That it still has a fairly good battery and that everything works is quite something considering it only cost €350 back in early '14. BTW it works fine with Win10, but I always stayed with Win8.1 as that runs lighter. It still boots fairly fast (20sec maybe?) I use a WIMboot image to free up some space. (there once also was a W10 WIMboot image available in multiple languages)

I run GTA IV, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2010 on it.

hey..My keyboard is not working..Do I need to enable something ? or should it work right away?

I have this tablet and all I have is the drivers and Minecraft installed in the main disk and it's already begging to die

please keep making videos!

I have one i got used back in '16. Its the 32GB version. I still use it a lot for VNs (whether or not one would consider those as games is subjective, but they are available on steam...) and some PS2 era games (would you believe Flatout 1 and 2 work well?!) Still kicking stones around with Win10. Performance settings are set to performance. So crunchy text, no animations, etc. And ram is always near 100% with heavy use on page/swap file. But its the perfect size for what VNs work with 32 bit and the battery, despite being 10 years old, still gives me over 6 hours. Oh, and while it doesnt meet the minimum specs at all, IT RUNS DDLC!!! An easy way to bring Monika around on the go in MAS. Albeit notably laggy. Sizable micro SD and a matte screen protector are my friends to make it somewhat relevant. The only real current equivelant to this as a windows tablet comvertable is probably a surface go, which is way out of my price range and has just as bad, if not worse reviews to justify replacing it yet. That all said? It is woefully slow once you try to browse the web. Also, while it turns on surprisingly fast, opening programs and games are also worthy of playing the Jeopardy theme in your head as nothing happens for 20 seconds.

One of the best, honest laptop-review videos I've seen.

What about the battery!

I buy a 2TB microSD card and it works. Now, I don't have a problem in memory with my 32GB SSD

Played Fallout New Vegas here with many custom settings, but was fun* Minecraft Win10 edition worked nice))

did you manage to install windows on the hd that is on the keyboard?

Was hoping you'd get into Windows XP and Windows 7 a little more, though.

I had one of these. Id bet a device between 11" and 13" (with some thin bezels) a high end 15-25w current gen CPU, and a 120hz display in a tablet paired to a keyboard dock akin to this design would sell well. If the manufacturer were truly daring, they could kill two birds with one stone by adding a battery, a dedicated GPU, an m.2 slot along with some extra ports and an SD card slot (if not on the tablet itself). Something like this may be a touch thicker and heavier than the current crop of 13" ultra-portables but without such things, the device would be top heavy and fall over. If all of this is done through a USB C port in the docking base or via a bidirectional proprietary connector with substantial bandwidth for the GPU and M.2, the tablet could be positioned backward in the dock, allowing for drawing capabilities and, depending on the shape of the tablet portion itself (it'd have to be flat on both the front and back), the ability to be docked/closed with the screen facing outwardly so you wouldn't necessarily need to find a place for the keyboard if you want to use the device as a tablet. The keyboard dock would likely be reasonably thick and weighty, as previously mentioned, so I'd guess there would be room for a stowable pen in the casing of the dock. All of these aspects would be a significant bit more inexpensive to design, from what I can tell. The manner by which manufacturers strive for laptops to be razor thin puts significant emphasis on thermals due to the flattening of ventilation. A lot of these devices teeter between fanless radiator designs and those with fans that push less air than most people do breathing casually. A few more millimeters and spacing between the base and screen would allow for a significant amount more surface area for cooling along with larger and more thermally efficient fans where they can actually pass significant airflow without sounding like a small vaccum cleaner!

how did you install linux mint on it? it didnt work for me (wont boot)

Lol this is halarious… I’m sitting here looking at one given to me…. And I can’t for the life of me remember the password to this peice of Sh%%

Another issue is that the digitizer is really easy to break and kind of hard to replace. Replaced mine and it broke after a day.

this was actually my first computer :)

It is possible to play Minecraft at 1.12 with Optifine on 8 chunks and 1.18 on Fabric Playable at 30-10fps with some stutters here and there Also blender 2.79 is possible and very useable, if you want to render you can just stop, tried to do 2.8 but it had drivers? problems but it did ran with some modification but the viewport is running at 3fps lol If you want to read something like manga it's very good at it, I guess sometimes it just struggles to scroll thru images

well clearly this isnt a gaming machine. i have this laptop/netbook/tablet computer abomination thing and it seems to be perfect for working in visual studio code on the go or just watching youtube videos. wouldn't really do anything else with it

It's a strange little laptop/tablet thing. I don't really know what to use it for. I kinda want to set it up as a retro gaming system or something.

Best battery life of all my used laptops

maaan i have the 1.33 GHZ version :(

I put chromeOS on mine

Hello. I have a problem with running java applications. Java is installed and I get an error when I try to run it this application requires a java runtime environment anyone had a similar problem and solved it?