Aw: Need new Tablet+Dock convertible
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So after a few weeks i can say this:
It's waaaay lighter than my Asus tx300ca so you can use it as a tablet!
the 4:3 Screen.... meh... it's not as wide as 16:9 but its's higher. For normal usage thats okay... for videos it's still acceptable. It's more handy like that!
It doesn't have a network port, only wireless (lucky i haven't needed one in the last 6 months ^^)
The pen is awesome. You can use it for navigation in Tablet mode without keyboard, with fireGesutres addon for Firefox that works excellent, or for notes on PDF files/presentations.
The bad parts are the Performance. Surfing the web/PDF reading/idle with low brightness will be about 6-7.5 hours battery. Heavy excel work will bring about 4.5-5.5 hours.
The throttling! the i5-4500U works nice for short peaks or low load stuff. If you have a longer load it will not only throttle because of CPU heat but also because of the case heat! (my case never got over 45°C on the back. While the SoC got 90°C Peak and then dropped till 60 and less because the Case got to hot) i.e Prime95 runs with 2 cores @2.6ghz and reaches 90°C Core in 1.5 minutes After this Thermal throttling will kick in, reducing the CPU clock from 2.6 to 1.8ghz over roughly 2.5 minutes, after that the Power Limit Throttling kicks in again because of the Case Temperature and it will drop from 1.8ghz to 1.3ghz which made the case cool enough to let the cpu hit 90°C again.