Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'm a big fan of ASUS, and have been for years. I bought two of the original Eee netbooks, the original Transformer tablet (which still works decently despite a lot of physical abuse over the years), a couple nettops, a laptop, and multiple desktop motherboards. So my 1-star review is tough to give, but ultimately the tablet is nearly useless for the purposes I was (reasonably) expecting to use it. THE GOOD: The build quality on this tablet is solid, and the price is the best out there for a 10 inch tablet from a brand-name manufacturer. The display is beautiful, and the general user experience (i.e. performance) was decently responsive. Except... THE BAD: Because this tablet has an Intel Atom processor, it is not guaranteed to be compatible with ANY android apps. Unfortunately there's no way of knowing if your favorite game or app will work until you buy the tablet and try to install your apps on it. Only then *may* the Google Play Store notify you that your nephew's favorite game (e.g. Kingdom Rush Frontiers) is not compatible with your brand-new tablet even though the game works fine on your old tablet, which has the same model name and is made by the same manufacturer. Or even worse, the Play Store actually let's you install the incredibly useful and popular productivity app (CamScanner), and it's not until you're in the midst of using the app that the app starts crashing, or freezing, for no known reason. This causes you hours of frustration and/or lost work, until you finally discover someone else who - like you - was foolish enough to buy an Android tablet with an Intel processor and foolishly expected their new tablet to work with some of the most popular Android apps in the world. That's when you realize it wasn't the app, or faulty hardware, it was just a stupid design decision on the part of ASUS (and Google) to run Android on an Intel processor and pass it off as a true Android tablet, without big warning signs that your favorite apps have a decent chance of not being compatible. To top it all, ASUS filled the tablet with their own apps that you can't uninstall, aren't very useful, and are always running in the background - slowing performance, and nagging you to be updated. Very disappointing, ASUS.