Alternatives to the Helix

I ordered a Helix 3698-4SU from Provantage back at the end of April, and I'm still entertaining dim hopes that it could ship this coming week. Meanwhile, we've all just learned that the Asus Transformer Book TX300 will be released May 21st. This seems like an intriguing alternative to the Helix. $1500 gets you an i7 processessor, 4GB RAM, 128 GB drive on the tablet, but another 500 GB on the dock in the form of a disk drive. It's a 13.3" screen, as opposed to the 11.6" on the Helix, and did I mention the price differential?
It's still speculative at this point, but what do you guys think? I'm tempted to cancel the Helix order and go for the Asus instead.

Here is the quite detailed review of ASUS Transformer Book TX300, http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/20/asus-transformer-book-tx300-review/.
While we all agree it is not really an alternative to Helix due to lack of digitizer, there is following interesting statement: "It's getting a little tiresome ending all pre-Computex laptop reviews this way, but it's worth repeating nonetheless: unless your laptop dies a sudden death leaving you without a computer, you should wait until Intel launches its next-gen Haswell chips before making a purchase." That is exactly my pain point - I desperately want the Helix which is not deliverable (pre-ordered in March) but if I get it now, I will have almost impossible task to convince my computer knowledgeable financial controller (my wife ) why should I invest so much money now just before release of Haswell. My only slightly hope would be if nobody else would not bring some similar to Helix Haswell based convertible tablet with digitizer in next 3 months. The experience learn us that it takes a looong amount of time between the announcement and the factual delivery; the ASUS Transformer Book is the statutory example, almost a year past between the first announcement http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/04/asus-transformer-book/ and the release date http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/16/asus-transformer-book-may-21st-release-date/?utm_medium=feed&utm_... which, and we know it from Helix, does not mean it would be actually deliverable.
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I just bought the Lenovo Helix with Windows 8.1 and I've been trying to disable this auto-scroll or touch-scroll function that comes on by default on UltraNav.
On my old X220 with Windows 7, I can just go to Mouse-> UltraNav -> Settings -> Neither on Scroll / Magnify Features.
It seems like there's no way to turn it off for the Helix. From this discussion,
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/Carbon-X1-Use-middle-scroll-button-as-middle-c...
It sounds this option isn't available yet on Windows 8.
I've tried older driver: No option to disable this feature.
I've tried Synaptic driver: I can use middle click but the touchpad is ultra sensitive and I can't adjust it.
Has anyone found a solution for this? I use the middle click a lot for openning new windows and pasting on linux screens. It makes the computer usable unless I have a mouse.

On Windows 8, using the UltraNav software/driver from Lenovo, middle click always means "Scroll". There is no way to change this. Maybe you can find some driver directly from Synaptics (and not from Lenovo) that lets you configure the middle mouse button as something other than "Scroll", but this definitely cannot be done with the Lenovo software. I'm sorry I can't help you further.

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lov2bugu, you said things the exact way I wanted to express them! It was like watching me talking to a SONY’s CEO.
I don’t really think they are not aware of the problems. SONY used to be the 27th largest company in the world, according to Forbes. They are now at the 456th place!!
They are aware of their problems and I think, the move to buy the remaining stocks from Ericsson, is a move to bounce back into the market. They found the right time, where the stock is too low and the economics around the globe don’t look promising enough. I have to recognize them, all the bad phases they went into this year … hacking attack, loss of their factory in London, global economic climate etc.
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There is no 4g LTE option for the Helix

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My recollection is that there was a LTE model briefly available but this was withdrawn due to some compatibility problems (I don't know the exact details). There were rumours that these would be resolved with a new LTE model released around August 2013 but as far as I know this never happened.
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Is there an alternative to the black unibody keyboard?

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www.petersolon.com/Overview.html
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Is the Helix the true sucessor to the X230t?

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