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We’ve seen the Transformer Prime in a flashy teaser trailer and we’ve seen the Transformer Prime under the harsh lights of a stage, but until now we hadn’t gotten a chance to see what the Transformer Prime looks like at home with its hair dock down.

No new revelations from these images, but the keyboard dock continues to look fantastic to me. The design takes some cues from the new Asus Zenbook, although the two tone keyboard inevitably draws some comparisons to the Macbook line. Regardless of the aesthetics it looks like it will be a pleasure to type on and Asus has definitely given more thought to creating a device that can bridge the gap between a tablet and a netbook/laptop than any of the other manufacturers thus far.

Of course the headlining feature of the Transformer Prime is the Kal-El (a.k.a. Tegra 3) processor and it’s five cores. In case you’d forgotten those sneaky NVIDIAns crammed a fifth core (which we’ve lovingly dubbed “NinjaCore”) in their quad-core processor which means that we don’t only get the crazy fast performance offered by a quad-core tablet, but there’s also that fifth core to handle light duties when you aren’t making Kal-El flex his yellow Sun enhanced muscles.

It’s this quad-core +1 architecture that is allowing Asus to stretch the quoted battery life on the Transformer Prime to an insane 14.5 hours. If the new dock offers a similar battery boost to the original that will mean over 20 hours of total use with the tablet and dock until you need to go hunting for an outlet.

One of the few pieces of information we are still missing for the Transformer Prime is an actual release date, but the official announcement is coming November 9th and it would surprise me if Asus didn’t get this to market before the end of November.

So how many of you are considering the Transformer Prime? I’d also be interested to know whether you are also planning on getting the dock or if you only have eyes for the tablet.

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