Asus EP121 Touch Review

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• EP121
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[playing0cards]

People have been looking for a widescreen wireless Cintiq for what seems like forever now and Wacom just kept shoveling the same aging tech. This looks good but...

The tech in this and all tablet PCs are way overpriced compared to laptops with similar/better specs minus the touch interface and pen. If it was $200 I could live with it; $300 if it used the newer tech. But $400? Is a $400+ premium really worth touch input and an outdated version of Wacom's pen input? $1K is just too much.

[heatlesssun]

@playing0cards

If one has no need for a touch screen or ink technology then the EP121 wouldn't be a good device for one. However the pen technology works very well and there's simply no other device at $1000 that does what the EP121 does. If you need what the EP121 does it's not overpriced at all.

[rabbittbabbitt]

one person is watching this from there ipad

[heatlesssun]

@rabbittbabbitt

I was able to import this from my camera and upload it YouTube from my EP121.

[dsoundofmusic1215]

hows the battery life in real world use?

[heatlesssun]

@dsoundofmusic1215

In general desktop use I'm seeing between 3.5 to 4 hours with both WiFi and Bluetooth radios on in Balanced Mode. I've not tried more aggressive power saving measures but 5 hours of practical use out of this device seems reasonable. Not good battery life compared to a mobile OS device but not bad for a 2.6 lbs. Core i5 machine.

[MrOctane3]

100x better than my iPad

[AtomicAutopsy]

i was in a loop between this and the samsung slate 7 , got the last one and very happy with it

[warder105]

There are two things wrong with this tablet, or rather two very important things to note that I can think of, And those things are battery life and price. I don't know how long the battery lasts, but I can imagine it isn't near the average toy tablet run time. And there is price. The HP touch-pad fire sale taught us that prices need to go down on tablets, not up. $1000 bucks just isn't going to fly with most folks.

[Earthen80]

The iPad is just an expensive toy... This is an investment

[lFaxasl]

With an stylus as good as the eee slate have u don evan have to use the finger

[polyfrolic]

The ASUS EP121 is the biggest piece of shit since the Wacom Cintiq! I have now gone through two units that both ahve the same pen tracking error. It is so far off with tracking that you can not physically configure it to track correctly because it clicks off the physichal screen when you click on the Wacom callibration utility.

That is TWO units in a row with EXACTLY the same issue. DO not buy this as a replacement for your Cintiq... it is actually worse for tracking!

[pellegew]

Adobe Reader X works on my EP121, even the side panel with one finger scrolling.

[MadGriffith]

the pinch-zoom lag is due to a problem within the browsers. It is not the tablet's fault...

[ultraret]

GUYS NEWEGG HAS THE 64GB IN STOCK RIGHT NOW .HURRY WILL SELL OUT IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS IM SURE.