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Asus, known for its creative designs and outre hardware (such as the recent Taichi dual-screen laptop), has its own unique take on the Atom-powered Windows 8 tablet. The VivoTab Smart ME400 with battery such as Asus 90-NCA1B3000 Battery , Asus a41-w3 Battery , Asus a42-w3 Battery , Asus w3000a Battery , Asus a42-v1 Battery , Asus 90-NGF1B110 Battery , Asus v1j battery , Asus vx2s Battery , Asus a42-a3 Battery , Asus 90-NIL1B2000 Battery , Asus a6r Battery , Asus a42-m6 Battery -- if you can decypher Asus' naming conventions, more power to you -- is a 10.1-inch touch-screen slate bundled with a fully separate keyboard/touch pad and an origami-like magnetic cover.
It's that folding cover and the keyboard that help the VivoTab (to pick one of the system's three names as shorthand) stand out from a crowd that also includes the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 and the Dell Latitude 10. All of these systems start with the same core specs -- an Intel Atom CPU, 2GB of RAM, and a small 64GB SSD, and all are between $500 and $600 for the base tablet (this model also includes a NFC chip for communicating with select phones and other devices). Adding the keyboard and cover is an extra $130, making the entire package just under $650, which is a bit less than similarly configured Dell, Lenovo, or HP Atom tablets with similar accessory packages.
With micro-style ports for USB and SD card connections, using any of these Windows 8 tablets can be hassle at times, although apps optimized for the slower Atom processor, including IE10, Netflix, and the Windows 8 UI itself feel snappy and much more usable than old Atom netbooks did.
While it's perfectly fine to use onscreen swiping gestures and the on-screen keyboard for general OS and Web navigation, chances are good you're going to do any serious work, or even e-mail composition, with the Bluetooth keyboard. The super-thin keyboard/touch pad combo, with the same footprint as the tablet itself, is a great little accessory, and would make an excellent standalone Bluetooth keyboard for any number of tablets, small form factor desktops or docked laptops.
They keyboard keys are standard island-style ones, shallower than you'd find in even the thinnest ultrabook laptop, but with a bit more depth than the Surface Pro keyboard. The touch pad below the keyboard is a single clickpad, with left and right mouse button areas demarcated by a white line. Touch-pad response was a little stuttery -- the pad didn't always react instantly when touched, and gestures such as two-finger scrolling could be twitchy. Using your finger directly on the screen was much more satisfying in those cases.