 | ASUS Eee PC T91MT 8.9-Inch Black Tablet Netbook - 5 Hours of Battery Life Brand : Asus Model : T91MT-PU17-BK Overall Rating :  From : 6 Reviews Color : Black |
Technical
- Intel Atom Z520 Processor 1.33GHz
- 1 GB of DDR2 RAM, 1 Slot, 2 GB Max
- 32 GB Solid State Drive + 500 GB Free Eee Storage
- 8.9-Inch Touch LED LCD Display; Bluetooth; 5 Hour Battery Life
- Multi-Touch Functionality; Windows 7 Home Premium (32 bit) Operating System
Description
ASUS introduces the newest member of the Eee PC T91 family, the T91MT with Multi-touch. Just like its predecessor, the T91MT delivers ultimate portability and simplicity with an easy-to-use touchscreen that enables user to effortlessly navigate applications and the Web at a press of a finger. As big as a paperback novel, the lightweight Eee PC T91MT is the world’s smallest and slimmest touch PC. Plus, it boasts long-lasting battery life with the energy-efficient Intel Atom Z520 processor, exclusive ASUS Super Hybrid Engine, and LED-backlit display, so you’ll be able to easily bring the thin and light Eee PC T91MT whenever and wherever you go. The Eee PC T91MT is built for ultimate mobile versatility. Conduct on-the-go meetings, read e-books comfortably in tablet mode, show-off your photo album to friends, or jot down some important notes using the stylus writing tool, whatever you choose to do the Eee PC T91MT makes it easy. [...]
Rating & Reviews (All-Reviews)
Rick C ( San Francisco, CA USA ) Pros: sturdy, nice tablet mode, fast sleep and hibernate
Cons: non-removable battery, small space bar
I bought this machine as an experiment to see if I could avoid subjecting my laptop for traveling all day, meetings, and even around the house, e-mail, web browsing and document editing. I'm quite satisfied. I use Gmail and document sharing site, so most of my environment is available, and suggest other files with an SD card. Obviously, any netbook can also do the job, but that does not provide "the T91 is in tablet mode, which can be useful. Experimentation with new, but a tablet seems less intrusive to be used in a meeting, at the most convenient way or standing, and in other cases.
I bought the T91MT model, even though the multi-touch seemed of limited value to me: I wanted the 32GB solid state disk. After 2 weeks I'm still not using the multi-touch much, and I don't even find the 32GB necessary if I uninstall software that I don't need, but I'm sure I'll expand to use the space over time. 32GB might seem really small to you, but remember, that was a reasonable hard disk size not that long ago, and the SSD is faster. If you are using more than a few gigabytes for your documents and email, you might take a look at whether you can really need all of that... of course, if you have special uses like video I can understand. Asus also provides 500GB of web space with this machine, I haven't tried using that yet.
In battery mode, when the machine is "resistance" or "Speed", I note that the machine is slow, but works well for simple text editing and simple web sites, and you can click the icon to switch to battery a higher speed, if necessary, for video, etc. copy of the file seems to be fast, perhaps because of the SSD. The WiFi seems to quick. 'I do not operate the battery. I connect the Asus night, and does so through several hours of work during the day, no problem. By default, you can sleep when you run the power switch, but I have changed in hibernation to save power (which was perhaps not necessary).
The space bar was a problem for me, it's just a bit too short... I accidentally hit the right-side ALT key with my thumb. I used AutoHotKey to reprogram that key to be a space bar. Problem solved. Other than that, I'm fine with the keyboard. It is a bit small, but I can touch type just fine. I disabled the touchpad "click" to avoid accidentally selecting things, I use the two-sided button under the touchpad to click, and I often use my finger on the screen for selection, scrolling, etc.
The biggest negative to me is that the battery is not user-replaceable. If you search on the web you will see that the battery can be replaced by removing some screws, but that voids the warranty. I confess I almost never replaced the battery on my laptop (maybe a spare on a long plane flight), but it will be a pain in a year or so when the Asus T91 battery needs to be replaced.
Cons: non-removable battery, small space bar
I bought this machine as an experiment to see if I could avoid subjecting my laptop for traveling all day, meetings, and even around the house, e-mail, web browsing and document editing. I'm quite satisfied. I use Gmail and document sharing site, so most of my environment is available, and suggest other files with an SD card. Obviously, any netbook can also do the job, but that does not provide "the T91 is in tablet mode, which can be useful. Experimentation with new, but a tablet seems less intrusive to be used in a meeting, at the most convenient way or standing, and in other cases.
I bought the T91MT model, even though the multi-touch seemed of limited value to me: I wanted the 32GB solid state disk. After 2 weeks I'm still not using the multi-touch much, and I don't even find the 32GB necessary if I uninstall software that I don't need, but I'm sure I'll expand to use the space over time. 32GB might seem really small to you, but remember, that was a reasonable hard disk size not that long ago, and the SSD is faster. If you are using more than a few gigabytes for your documents and email, you might take a look at whether you can really need all of that... of course, if you have special uses like video I can understand. Asus also provides 500GB of web space with this machine, I haven't tried using that yet.
In battery mode, when the machine is "resistance" or "Speed", I note that the machine is slow, but works well for simple text editing and simple web sites, and you can click the icon to switch to battery a higher speed, if necessary, for video, etc. copy of the file seems to be fast, perhaps because of the SSD. The WiFi seems to quick. 'I do not operate the battery. I connect the Asus night, and does so through several hours of work during the day, no problem. By default, you can sleep when you run the power switch, but I have changed in hibernation to save power (which was perhaps not necessary).
The space bar was a problem for me, it's just a bit too short... I accidentally hit the right-side ALT key with my thumb. I used AutoHotKey to reprogram that key to be a space bar. Problem solved. Other than that, I'm fine with the keyboard. It is a bit small, but I can touch type just fine. I disabled the touchpad "click" to avoid accidentally selecting things, I use the two-sided button under the touchpad to click, and I often use my finger on the screen for selection, scrolling, etc.
The biggest negative to me is that the battery is not user-replaceable. If you search on the web you will see that the battery can be replaced by removing some screws, but that voids the warranty. I confess I almost never replaced the battery on my laptop (maybe a spare on a long plane flight), but it will be a pain in a year or so when the Asus T91 battery needs to be replaced.
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Jimmy Dunn ( Lubbock, Texas ) I am not giving this computer a better review mostly because I am currently sending back the machine for a second time, and this time buying a different one. I like the size of the machine for what I wanted, and for the most part, it has worked as I thought it would, though it is pretty slow (though I expected this as well). The machine in general seems fairly well made, the touch screen works fine and I really had no problem with it.
However, the first car we bought stopped working for the dough, after a few days. We could plug it in and it might work, but not charge the battery. The second car we bought, the charger stopped working completely. I could go down and bought a universal charger, but this time it was a bit 'angry against it and something else would be afraid to make mistakes. So I send this second behind, and ordered a touchscreen Gigabyte instead. I would say that, as usual, even though the product could have caused problems, the response of the Amazon customer service was surprisingly good. I like to do business with this company.
However, the first car we bought stopped working for the dough, after a few days. We could plug it in and it might work, but not charge the battery. The second car we bought, the charger stopped working completely. I could go down and bought a universal charger, but this time it was a bit 'angry against it and something else would be afraid to make mistakes. So I send this second behind, and ordered a touchscreen Gigabyte instead. I would say that, as usual, even though the product could have caused problems, the response of the Amazon customer service was surprisingly good. I like to do business with this company.
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Cherudim I bought this pc for my parents. They hate keyboard. So, I thought the tablet mode would be easier for them.
The weak cpu really consumed a lot of time for software installing. My parents they use language other than English. So, I had to upgrade to Win 7 ultimate. I had to acquire additional MUI through windows update, and I also had to spend time to uninstall the unncessary pre-installed softwares. All those installing and uninstalling took me more than half day to complete. After completing all those set-ups, this T91mt really looks wonderful! My parents only use this pc for internet research, msn, and youtube. So, this pc is more than enough for them. Playing youtube video is not 100% smooth but acceptable.
The keyboard is small. You can not count on her to write the paper. However, the mode of writing by hand is great. Will consider how to write my own stationery. I think it would probably improve my spelling skills. The function that prevents the palm of your hand touches the monitor is not really useful. Handwriting input makes it less sensitive. I prefer to close the office and place your palms on the edge of the screen.
The battery life is not great but ok. Without the wi-fi on, the battery life probably can reach to 6.5hr. Otherwise, 4.5hrs in power saving mode. I would carry the recharging device with me when going to school or friend's house.
Overall, i think this is a good pc. I've been considering to get a 2nd one for myself.
The weak cpu really consumed a lot of time for software installing. My parents they use language other than English. So, I had to upgrade to Win 7 ultimate. I had to acquire additional MUI through windows update, and I also had to spend time to uninstall the unncessary pre-installed softwares. All those installing and uninstalling took me more than half day to complete. After completing all those set-ups, this T91mt really looks wonderful! My parents only use this pc for internet research, msn, and youtube. So, this pc is more than enough for them. Playing youtube video is not 100% smooth but acceptable.
The keyboard is small. You can not count on her to write the paper. However, the mode of writing by hand is great. Will consider how to write my own stationery. I think it would probably improve my spelling skills. The function that prevents the palm of your hand touches the monitor is not really useful. Handwriting input makes it less sensitive. I prefer to close the office and place your palms on the edge of the screen.
The battery life is not great but ok. Without the wi-fi on, the battery life probably can reach to 6.5hr. Otherwise, 4.5hrs in power saving mode. I would carry the recharging device with me when going to school or friend's house.
Overall, i think this is a good pc. I've been considering to get a 2nd one for myself.
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Lucas (Note - The T91MT is released in Black and White versions, I have the White Version.)
Since I've started using Ipod Touch generation 1 a couple of years back, I decided the future is all about touch screen and I told myself I would only buy mobile devices that would have access to touch screen. So I was looking forward to this netbook, as it was exactly what I've been hoping for in terms of concept and design.
Initially I was disappointed by the touch technology due to lack of response, but after a week I started to like it. Make no mistake, the T91MT uses a resistive screen so that it is never as sensitive as the iPhone capacitive screen, but once you get used to the amount of pressure must be applied, the response T91MT well enough to touch the controls. The main culprit for this delay and lack of reaction is the low-power processor. Notes in compressed mode, the processing power is limited to just 800MHz. You can reach the maximum of 1.33 GHz netbook mode, this can be implied to lower the temperature of the system platform. The performance difference is significant when watching video online.
Multitouch zooming is not highly inaccurate, instead of making small smooth changes; it makes leaps that zoom from 100% to 125% or 100% to 75%, depending on the program. Some program has smooth animation between zoom to give the illusion that the zoom is more fluid. The biggest problem here is still processing power. If you are running zoom while low in processing resources you will likely to make inaccurate zoom, going over the desired zoom level due to lag.
There is an official video of the demo works on YouTube T91MT is the same video that is installed on the netbook that shows every time you start. Mislead May, the video shows a different version of Touch the door that has different background graphics. They show an animation very fluid in their software, it is unlikely that the real thing will be successful, because, once again, the lack of processing power. The real thing is much more agitated.
However on the positive side, the design of the netbook itself is solid and reasonably attractive, one of the big selling factor of this notebook is the small form factor and the tablet option. The netbook is very portable, I find myself getting it out during long queues like I would usually do with my Iphone. It can operate in tablet mode without going back to the keyboard, thanks to the virtual keyboard in windows 7.
The battery life is reasonable to good; it runs down quicker in full performance setting, around 3hrs, which is what I usually have it in due to the lack of processing power. I installed the extra 2GB ram memory right away; it didn't make much of a difference in terms of system performance. In addition, a lot of online videos are unwatchable or choppy. Youtube content cannot be played in HQ and depending on the video some will be choppy even in LQ mode while in tablet mode. Youtube is much more playable in netbook mode. Hulu has the same problems, more severe than Youtube since a alot of their video is in a higher quality format, Hulu is barely playable in netbook mode. Watching video's from hard drive is a different story, they play rather well, they don't suffer like those online videos.
I will also mention Asus's in-house software. The Touch Gate and Eee docking software are rather poor. In the touch gate, the online radio has a trial period and a link to Internet explorer was very unnecessary. Touchgate was designed for the XP to give them some touch screen functionality on that platform which was lacking in touch functions, but in windows 7 they are rather redundant since windows 7 was designed for touch screen. On top of this, the program itself is laggy.
Another problem I encountered is the refusal of palm. Refusal Palm Intelliwriting. It only works with notes of Sticky Notes and Windows Journal. But this is not his only problem, this software is not clear, what is drawn with the palm of your hand. It 'also falsified the text , which makes the production work very frustrating. I disable this feature and write me without pressing the palm of your hand on the screen using the panorama mode that uses the side of the screen as a form of denial of natural palms. Update - After a T91MT couple of weeks to try, I can tell you that the refusal to palm is a lost cause. It 'very hard to write more than a few words about the book equity, the refusal of woven palm so bad that it is not worth rekindling. A wealth Digitalizer make a world of difference. The writing is useful only for a couple of annotations.
The netbook has 2 USB ports and 2 SD/SDHC slots if you have the money, you can purchase 2 SDHC cards to increase the disk space by 64gb(2x32gb). This is kind of expensive, but does give you the option to expand without compromising portability.
The netbook is functional for reading PDF's and Amazon's Kindle. It is easier to read Amazon kindle, as that is less processing intensive. PDF magazine with lots of graphics can load slowly between pages and zooming can cause lag if you use the tablet mode, due to the reduced clock speed. I've learnt to use the pdf software's internal function to change screen orientation rather than using the netbook's function, that way you will scroll your books from the side like they are naturally. Another interesting fact is the notebook fits very well on the standard book holder at your local gym, so you've the option of working out while reading your pdf books or watching a movie on your netbook.
I've installed Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, ArtRage and Corel Painter 11. Photoshop works surprisingly well despise the low processing powers. Applying filters only took a few seconds. Photoshop demanded much less power than I had imagined it would.
There was initially a problem with the drawing tools on all these programs, they would not perform short strokes and sometimes would not draw at all. After some tweaking with settings, I worked out that this problem was caused by touch gestures sending both commands for drawing and moving the canvas at the same time, which confused the software. To fix this, I disabled "Single Finger Panning" under "Pen and Touch" control panel, this solve much of the drawing problems.
In conclusion, this device is not bad but could've been much better with more power. The touch screen function gets more responsive as you get used to it. The portable format lets the user to work anywhere. It works very well as a portable tablet. However the palm rejection is a lost cause, realistically you cannot do any kind of productive handwriting on this netbook, this netbook desperately needed a active digitalizer. The other main let down of this netbook is the processing power. The overall lag caused by this is discomforting, if Asus had put in a high powered cpu and gfx, this would be a award winning product. Note that your processing power will be lowered in tablet mode(800mhz), you can however work around this by putting your netbook to sleep during netbook/laptop mode then change to tablet mode while it is powered off. Once you repower on you will keep the same clock speed as the laptop mode(1333mhz), but this may cause heating problems.
I was initially very angry with this netbook, as Asus make a deceiving marketing video giving false expectation of the netbook, but as time went on this netbook grew on me. It makes a nice toy for reading and watching movies on the move, it is a cross between a iphone and a netbook. But as a first generation touchscreen netbook, it is not much of a productive tool in it's current form.
Since I've started using Ipod Touch generation 1 a couple of years back, I decided the future is all about touch screen and I told myself I would only buy mobile devices that would have access to touch screen. So I was looking forward to this netbook, as it was exactly what I've been hoping for in terms of concept and design.
Initially I was disappointed by the touch technology due to lack of response, but after a week I started to like it. Make no mistake, the T91MT uses a resistive screen so that it is never as sensitive as the iPhone capacitive screen, but once you get used to the amount of pressure must be applied, the response T91MT well enough to touch the controls. The main culprit for this delay and lack of reaction is the low-power processor. Notes in compressed mode, the processing power is limited to just 800MHz. You can reach the maximum of 1.33 GHz netbook mode, this can be implied to lower the temperature of the system platform. The performance difference is significant when watching video online.
Multitouch zooming is not highly inaccurate, instead of making small smooth changes; it makes leaps that zoom from 100% to 125% or 100% to 75%, depending on the program. Some program has smooth animation between zoom to give the illusion that the zoom is more fluid. The biggest problem here is still processing power. If you are running zoom while low in processing resources you will likely to make inaccurate zoom, going over the desired zoom level due to lag.
There is an official video of the demo works on YouTube T91MT is the same video that is installed on the netbook that shows every time you start. Mislead May, the video shows a different version of Touch the door that has different background graphics. They show an animation very fluid in their software, it is unlikely that the real thing will be successful, because, once again, the lack of processing power. The real thing is much more agitated.
However on the positive side, the design of the netbook itself is solid and reasonably attractive, one of the big selling factor of this notebook is the small form factor and the tablet option. The netbook is very portable, I find myself getting it out during long queues like I would usually do with my Iphone. It can operate in tablet mode without going back to the keyboard, thanks to the virtual keyboard in windows 7.
The battery life is reasonable to good; it runs down quicker in full performance setting, around 3hrs, which is what I usually have it in due to the lack of processing power. I installed the extra 2GB ram memory right away; it didn't make much of a difference in terms of system performance. In addition, a lot of online videos are unwatchable or choppy. Youtube content cannot be played in HQ and depending on the video some will be choppy even in LQ mode while in tablet mode. Youtube is much more playable in netbook mode. Hulu has the same problems, more severe than Youtube since a alot of their video is in a higher quality format, Hulu is barely playable in netbook mode. Watching video's from hard drive is a different story, they play rather well, they don't suffer like those online videos.
I will also mention Asus's in-house software. The Touch Gate and Eee docking software are rather poor. In the touch gate, the online radio has a trial period and a link to Internet explorer was very unnecessary. Touchgate was designed for the XP to give them some touch screen functionality on that platform which was lacking in touch functions, but in windows 7 they are rather redundant since windows 7 was designed for touch screen. On top of this, the program itself is laggy.
Another problem I encountered is the refusal of palm. Refusal Palm Intelliwriting. It only works with notes of Sticky Notes and Windows Journal. But this is not his only problem, this software is not clear, what is drawn with the palm of your hand. It 'also falsified the text , which makes the production work very frustrating. I disable this feature and write me without pressing the palm of your hand on the screen using the panorama mode that uses the side of the screen as a form of denial of natural palms. Update - After a T91MT couple of weeks to try, I can tell you that the refusal to palm is a lost cause. It 'very hard to write more than a few words about the book equity, the refusal of woven palm so bad that it is not worth rekindling. A wealth Digitalizer make a world of difference. The writing is useful only for a couple of annotations.
The netbook has 2 USB ports and 2 SD/SDHC slots if you have the money, you can purchase 2 SDHC cards to increase the disk space by 64gb(2x32gb). This is kind of expensive, but does give you the option to expand without compromising portability.
The netbook is functional for reading PDF's and Amazon's Kindle. It is easier to read Amazon kindle, as that is less processing intensive. PDF magazine with lots of graphics can load slowly between pages and zooming can cause lag if you use the tablet mode, due to the reduced clock speed. I've learnt to use the pdf software's internal function to change screen orientation rather than using the netbook's function, that way you will scroll your books from the side like they are naturally. Another interesting fact is the notebook fits very well on the standard book holder at your local gym, so you've the option of working out while reading your pdf books or watching a movie on your netbook.
I've installed Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, ArtRage and Corel Painter 11. Photoshop works surprisingly well despise the low processing powers. Applying filters only took a few seconds. Photoshop demanded much less power than I had imagined it would.
There was initially a problem with the drawing tools on all these programs, they would not perform short strokes and sometimes would not draw at all. After some tweaking with settings, I worked out that this problem was caused by touch gestures sending both commands for drawing and moving the canvas at the same time, which confused the software. To fix this, I disabled "Single Finger Panning" under "Pen and Touch" control panel, this solve much of the drawing problems.
In conclusion, this device is not bad but could've been much better with more power. The touch screen function gets more responsive as you get used to it. The portable format lets the user to work anywhere. It works very well as a portable tablet. However the palm rejection is a lost cause, realistically you cannot do any kind of productive handwriting on this netbook, this netbook desperately needed a active digitalizer. The other main let down of this netbook is the processing power. The overall lag caused by this is discomforting, if Asus had put in a high powered cpu and gfx, this would be a award winning product. Note that your processing power will be lowered in tablet mode(800mhz), you can however work around this by putting your netbook to sleep during netbook/laptop mode then change to tablet mode while it is powered off. Once you repower on you will keep the same clock speed as the laptop mode(1333mhz), but this may cause heating problems.
I was initially very angry with this netbook, as Asus make a deceiving marketing video giving false expectation of the netbook, but as time went on this netbook grew on me. It makes a nice toy for reading and watching movies on the move, it is a cross between a iphone and a netbook. But as a first generation touchscreen netbook, it is not much of a productive tool in it's current form.
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Yuval Zadok ( CA. USA ) After using the t91mt daily for a month, I am still very satisfied. This is an updated review with some corrections and additions.
This tablet was wonderful also sold on Amazon in black and white dress, which is what I bought a month ago. You can find more reviews will also be helpful (use your favorite search engine to search T91MT-PU17-WT, since amazon.com sells only one black per hour).
My personal learning experience with this Tablet was very satisfying . After using it for extended periods of time over the 4-day long Thanksgiving weekend, and then on my daily commute and at the office for occasional use, it easily fulfilled all of my expectations:
1. Reading any size of PDF files was a breeze. Acrobat 9 ran quickly on the T91MT. The ability to rotate the screen by pressing a button on the frame lets you chose portrait or landscape. Although it's a nice to have, I found it most useful in just reading everything in the default landscape-mode.
2. Internet use was as fast as on my dependable desktop. Both PCs access the Internet via wi-fi and downloads to the T91MT were even a bit faster than what I get on the desktop. (600 kB/sec from fast servers).
As much as I liked using Google's Chrome to browse the Inernet for over a year now, I found the Microsoft browser to be a lot better suited for a multi-touch screen. The scrolling of pages is quick to respond, and zooming is quick too (either sweesh two fingers away or toward each other, or hold one finger steady and tap with the other). The zooming on the browser only happens in some increment, and I wish it was continuous, but it still served its purpose in getting the fonts/photos to a comforable size (however I am still looking for some tweak to make it zoom to precisely where I want it to be). Some applications do support continiius zoom.
Proper usage of 'flicks' - sweeping a finger right or left will take you back or forward on the internet pages.
3. Watching videos: Whether watching a full feature film or a video clip played from a file on the local Drive, or streaming Youtube in regular or HD resolution, the Picture was smooth and nearly always jitter free. An episode of a TV Series which I played with a "VLC player" was jumpy, but once I switched to Windows Media player, the picture was smooth again.
4. Power levels: the T91Mt has several power levels. Should the video not run smoothly, or any other action not be fairly fast, it may be an indication that it is in 'power-saver' mode. To bring it back to higher power usage, simply click on the small battery icon on the the toolbar and select 'high power'.
5. Battery: with declared battery life of of 5 hours, I initially carried the charger with me to the office and back, but soon enough realized it was not necessary in my case. The t91mt still serves me for a full day's use due to realizing that I use it as one would use his cell. When needed, it comes out of 'sleep-mode' in only 3 seconds (!), ready with Internet pages and ofher forms just as I left them, and goes back to sleep instatly at the slide of a button. After repeat casual use during a full day of 5-10 minutes at a time, there is still 2+ hours of life in the battery to last me the 45 min commute back home. You can also improve on battery life by turning off un-used blueooth and other devices if you have no need for them, or keep the screen brigtness at just the right level or do other tweaks easily with ths provided power options.
7. CPU: If you are looking for a powerhouse of a multi-tasking-supporting machine that can play demanding games, then this machine (and most availale netbooks probably) are not for you. For daily use of Internet, Music playing, eReading, and other common activities, the t91mt does a great job.
8. Sound/Equalizer: You cannot expect too much from the small standard speakers on the t91mt, so the sound quality is fair. It gets far better with headphones or a good set of PC speakers where the soundcard does a great job. Both streaming audio from Pandora and mp3 on the local disk sounded great.
9. Booting / Other Comments: The initial booting+setup took ~15 min but was without any glitches. Just hang with it and reply to the prompts. Setting up the Wifi Connection was very fast. Windows 7 may be Vista based but is a pleasure to work with. Many functions are intuitive. To me it seems like Windows has really matured. Because the machine has no moving parts(except for maybe a tiny fan on the CPU?) it hardly gets warm, and is totally silent. (you can also selct 'active/passive' cooling from the power-schemes menu).
Final thoughts:
I was aware of this tablet coming out already 9 months ago, and the wait was well worth it. Asus has created a Well rounded and refined product with attention to detail, from a well laid out keyboard to a nice suite of software. I did not find any need for the Asus Gate utility and some people chose to uninstall it altogether. I exclusively used the excellent virtual keyboard, and the so easy to use stylus & notepad to write this review. It makes writing so much more 'natural'.
If you had in mind to purchase any additional T91MT, then, if necessary, instead of an upgrade to 2GB, you can choose to go for the extra memory, simply because the T91MT comes with a card of 32 GB of memory, but about 12 GB per system + software. Like all sophisticated equipment, it can take some "getting used. T91MT The usual fast-running and the display is sensitive, clear and sharp. If any of these parameters are not well configured to use the system of 'hard power' or processes Runaway find what you can monopolize the resources.
This tablet was wonderful also sold on Amazon in black and white dress, which is what I bought a month ago. You can find more reviews will also be helpful (use your favorite search engine to search T91MT-PU17-WT, since amazon.com sells only one black per hour).
My personal learning experience with this Tablet was very satisfying . After using it for extended periods of time over the 4-day long Thanksgiving weekend, and then on my daily commute and at the office for occasional use, it easily fulfilled all of my expectations:
1. Reading any size of PDF files was a breeze. Acrobat 9 ran quickly on the T91MT. The ability to rotate the screen by pressing a button on the frame lets you chose portrait or landscape. Although it's a nice to have, I found it most useful in just reading everything in the default landscape-mode.
2. Internet use was as fast as on my dependable desktop. Both PCs access the Internet via wi-fi and downloads to the T91MT were even a bit faster than what I get on the desktop. (600 kB/sec from fast servers).
As much as I liked using Google's Chrome to browse the Inernet for over a year now, I found the Microsoft browser to be a lot better suited for a multi-touch screen. The scrolling of pages is quick to respond, and zooming is quick too (either sweesh two fingers away or toward each other, or hold one finger steady and tap with the other). The zooming on the browser only happens in some increment, and I wish it was continuous, but it still served its purpose in getting the fonts/photos to a comforable size (however I am still looking for some tweak to make it zoom to precisely where I want it to be). Some applications do support continiius zoom.
Proper usage of 'flicks' - sweeping a finger right or left will take you back or forward on the internet pages.
3. Watching videos: Whether watching a full feature film or a video clip played from a file on the local Drive, or streaming Youtube in regular or HD resolution, the Picture was smooth and nearly always jitter free. An episode of a TV Series which I played with a "VLC player" was jumpy, but once I switched to Windows Media player, the picture was smooth again.
4. Power levels: the T91Mt has several power levels. Should the video not run smoothly, or any other action not be fairly fast, it may be an indication that it is in 'power-saver' mode. To bring it back to higher power usage, simply click on the small battery icon on the the toolbar and select 'high power'.
5. Battery: with declared battery life of of 5 hours, I initially carried the charger with me to the office and back, but soon enough realized it was not necessary in my case. The t91mt still serves me for a full day's use due to realizing that I use it as one would use his cell. When needed, it comes out of 'sleep-mode' in only 3 seconds (!), ready with Internet pages and ofher forms just as I left them, and goes back to sleep instatly at the slide of a button. After repeat casual use during a full day of 5-10 minutes at a time, there is still 2+ hours of life in the battery to last me the 45 min commute back home. You can also improve on battery life by turning off un-used blueooth and other devices if you have no need for them, or keep the screen brigtness at just the right level or do other tweaks easily with ths provided power options.
7. CPU: If you are looking for a powerhouse of a multi-tasking-supporting machine that can play demanding games, then this machine (and most availale netbooks probably) are not for you. For daily use of Internet, Music playing, eReading, and other common activities, the t91mt does a great job.
8. Sound/Equalizer: You cannot expect too much from the small standard speakers on the t91mt, so the sound quality is fair. It gets far better with headphones or a good set of PC speakers where the soundcard does a great job. Both streaming audio from Pandora and mp3 on the local disk sounded great.
9. Booting / Other Comments: The initial booting+setup took ~15 min but was without any glitches. Just hang with it and reply to the prompts. Setting up the Wifi Connection was very fast. Windows 7 may be Vista based but is a pleasure to work with. Many functions are intuitive. To me it seems like Windows has really matured. Because the machine has no moving parts(except for maybe a tiny fan on the CPU?) it hardly gets warm, and is totally silent. (you can also selct 'active/passive' cooling from the power-schemes menu).
Final thoughts:
I was aware of this tablet coming out already 9 months ago, and the wait was well worth it. Asus has created a Well rounded and refined product with attention to detail, from a well laid out keyboard to a nice suite of software. I did not find any need for the Asus Gate utility and some people chose to uninstall it altogether. I exclusively used the excellent virtual keyboard, and the so easy to use stylus & notepad to write this review. It makes writing so much more 'natural'.
If you had in mind to purchase any additional T91MT, then, if necessary, instead of an upgrade to 2GB, you can choose to go for the extra memory, simply because the T91MT comes with a card of 32 GB of memory, but about 12 GB per system + software. Like all sophisticated equipment, it can take some "getting used. T91MT The usual fast-running and the display is sensitive, clear and sharp. If any of these parameters are not well configured to use the system of 'hard power' or processes Runaway find what you can monopolize the resources.
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