I have a T-mobile HTC Sensation 4G phone. I have no other mobile tech at the moment, lol not even a MP3 player. I used to have a Asus EEE pc 901... its simpler to say it browses web ok and does skype... thats it keyboard is too small and harddrive management is a nightmare. I've given up on is as without installing anything on it there is not enough room on the hard drive to install all the OS updates it needs to run well
I'm traveling allot in my free time for my two business's I'm trying to build outside my day job and as such I really need a mobile solution.
I have short term and long term goals for my mobile tech expansion.
I initially need cheap(next 6-12 months), light, small, functional, good battery life(It has to have good touch pad interface and decent keyboard or I'll go insane... oh god please make it look pretty). I kid you not that the best deal I see is an ASUS transformer prime, the OS being the only draw back but perhaps something I can work around, otherwise an ultra book is the next best option and that is a large leap in price, would you say that adds enough functionality without loosing too much battery despite the cost hike? 13" max in size 10" min in size... light and thin I will be taking this everywhere with me I don't want it to become a burden.
My long term goal(1-2 years) is a mobile workstation laptop probably in the 17 inch area as I personally don't find 15 inches any more convenient and their aren't any... appealing 13 inch offerings with discrete GPU's, RAM, QUAD core processors and a nice industrial design. The workstation will have to do everything it will be what makes it so being away from home doesn't detract from productivity, I'll be editing photos, websites, managing bank accounts, editing video, solid modeling... all of it. I want that 17 workstation and a tablet for handily showing presentation to clients in one on one meetings as well as for recreational consumption of media etc.
I was also leaning towards a Transformer prime as it would knock off one half of my long term goals, and I could role into a workstation sooner.
Do you think a transformer has the potential to meaningfully increase my functionality beyond what I do on my phone right now? Or is it just a toy. What brands should I be looking at for Ultra books and or 17" workstation laptops with nice industrial design. Currently I'm only looking at Mac but last I checked their Win7 drivers are junk so the mouse pad really suffers in windows. Please advise.