The tablet, which is also known as the TF101, is now available from HMV for just £299.99, a 25 per cent discount off its suggested retail price at launch.
This is a lesser cut compared to the two other mentioned tablets but is still a very good price for a tablet that will not be very different from the model which has already been announced.
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime comes with a Tegra 3 chipset clocked at 1.4GHz, the same amount of onboard memory, 32GB storage, a better eight megapixel camera, a slimmer profile (a third less), a better battery life while weighing less.
Arguably, expect to pay more for th e newer model which also sports the same 10.1-inch 1280x800 pixels IPS capacitive touchscreen.
The first generation Transformer is powered by Android 3.0 Honeycomb (and we expect it to be upgradable to Ice Cream Sandwich at a latter stage).
The optional docking station is expected to almost double the battery life to a whopping 16 hours.
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