Would you like some Ice Cream Sandwhich on your Eee Pad Transformer in 2012 (or end of 2011) or would you prefer Windows 8 for that extra mile of productivity? I ask because next year Asus may be releasing a sequel Transformer with Windows 8, alongside a Transformer with Android, according to what Notebook Italia heard from Asus at Computex way back at the start of the year.
By the time Windows 8 rolls out the OS should be pretty happy running on ARM hardware as we’ve already seen on ARM tablet and laptop prototypes and its web-technologies based finger friendly touch layer will hopefully make Android users feel right at home with the Windows tablet form factor. We can obviously expect the next round of Transformers to be more powerful and perhaps even thinner and lighter.
Edit – Sascha’s spec(ulation) list includes the same 10.1-inch IPS display, Nvidia Tegra 3 (quad-core), 2GB of RAM, 32 / 64 and 128GB SSD options, 10h battery life, 20h together with the keyboard dock and pricing between 400 and 800 euros.
Source: Notebook Italia
