[Q] Can someone please explain what the transformer I/O problem means?

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I've seen it in threads that the "I/O" is a problem on the tf700.

What does that mean? I don't know what it is

Originally Posted by ap3604

I've seen it in threads that the "I/O" is a problem on the tf700.

What does that mean? I don't know what it is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input/output

To add just a bit of context to the rather unfriendly and a bit too concise a reply above, the TF700 -- as all other Transformer edition tablets -- suffer from lags and hangups when a disk-intensive task is run concurrently with some other task (for example when installing or updating an app in the background and browsing the web or watching a (high-resolution) video at the same time) or when transferring large amounts of data to or from both internal and external memory (like that video you wanted watch while letting your apps update in the background ). Note that the term 'disk-intensive' is a relative one, since it also happens with operations so limited that it is hard to believe the hardware would be overwhelmed to any significant degree.

I was able to see this easily last night installing large apps and try to use the play st ore while downloading. Never had this on my og transformer.

Otherwise this is a beautiful tablet

MartyHulskemper nails the description, so I am listing some specific examples.

1. Installing applications stalls other action/task

Presumably, installing application actively access your flash drive and this basically freezes your system temporary even it is non-intensive application such as simply non-flash based site browsing.

2. Downloading large file stalls other action/task

Just as #1, but again this is writing/accessing your flash drive.

3. Copy/Write from PC to Tablet by USB

Small files flies. Big files inconsistently but relatively frequently stops/freezes. Presumably some sort of issue from writing to flash disk.

4. Slower PDF opening (I am speculating this)

Compared to my former system, which was dual core, opening large PDF is much slower and almost consistently gives me "No response" Error. This I am blaming on the reading from flash drive is somehow the issue.

So You will encounter the problems here and there as I/O is pretty much used everywhere.