Hardware chose: ASUS Eee Pad Slider or ASUS Eee Pad Transformer for web development?

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Published on 2011-01-09T14:46:23Z Indexed on 2011/01/09 14:55 UTC
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I was just wondering out of the following Tablets which one seams better to get?

I am a web-developer, Always using Unix/Linux/BSD, I want a tablet that has a keyboard.

http://gdgt.com/asus/eee/pad/slider/

http://gdgt.com/asus/eee/pad/transformer/

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/18311/asus_eee_pad_slider_transformer_tablets_with_physical_keyboard/index.html

I know both are similar, but not sure what one I should get. The Slider seems very nice but again the keyboard is fixed to the tablet unlike the Transformer.

P.S: I'm going to use one of the above to showcase my programming work at school, as well as just being used as a cheaper notebook than the $300 Windows.7 locked down notebooks. By Locked down, I mean we pay $300 for them and after 3 years we can do what ever to them, they are Lenovo thinkpad mini-10 and What they have installed is all you get, they don't let us install what ever OS on them.

And with the question on both of those links, I think that the transformer would be better but that is only taking in the fact of it being both a tablet and a notebook. What I really care about is power; which one is more powerful? It will be running kFreeBSD-Debian-Squeeze with Linux-Mint theme with several other packages.

Though I'm not going to run Windows (which I feel is bloated), I still want power. To help keep my computer from slowing down with cache, I will have a cron.d/hourly script cleaning out the cache memory.

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