Asus Eee PC T101MT Convertible Netbook Reviewed
The Asus Eee PC T101MT has been reviewed by the folks at Engadget. The Eee PC T101MT is a convertible tablet style netbook with a touchscreen display. It started shipping in the US recently.
According to Engadget’s Joanna Stern, the T101MT is a good netbook: it works well. The T101MT is also a tablet. It comes with a swivel that lets you fold the display down over the keyboard for use in the tablet mode. Joanna isn’t very happy with the tablet experience.
The problem, it seems, is with the Windows 7 Starter OS the netbook ships with. The Windows 7 Starter Edition doesn’t support multitouch gestures. It doesn’t automatically bring up the onscreen keyboard when you tap on a text box either which means that you have to manually bring up the keyboard whenever you want to enter text. Frustrating, isn’t it? Another problem is the resistive touchscreen which isn’t quite meant for tapping with your fingers.
The Eee PC T101MT is offered with Windows 7 Home Premium in some countries, but that option is not available in the US. While you can upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium by shelling out an extra $50, it doesn’t seem to solve all issues. There is, for example, no accelerometer. So you have to press a button to manually rotate the screen from landscape to portrait mode.
So what is the verdict? Well, Joanna and some other reviewers have pointed out that these problems aren’t limited to the Eee PC T101MT. Almost every other convertible tablet style netbook suffers from these issues. It goes without saying that the touchscreen is the biggest selling point of these tablets. But unfortunately, the rest of their specs aren’t very touch-friendly which means that what you get is a rather unpleasant tablet experience.
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