we're in the ASUS system suite and we've got a couple sweet things to show you
guys so these kind of go together but they kind of don't welcome to lonus Tech
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linkis number one is the Zenbook touch
so this is a full HD Zenbook it's running Windows 8 it is touch enabled I
I I love Windows 8 with touch Windows 8 without touch isn't as good of an
experience in my opinion and there's a couple things that were challenging for
implementing touchscreen notebooks especially at the beginning number one is it does add some thickness and you
have to meet that specification from Intel in terms of the overall thickness
of the unit so let's just sort of there goes my phone let's just go through and
validate sort of okay is it still super thin absolutely at its thickest point
it's just over the thickness of an iPhone 4 you still got micro HDMI out
you still got VGA out with an adapter super speed USB 3 DC in so there's your
power the front very very very slim ASUS
has done such a beautiful job of the finishing on here oh did you get that
did you missed that there we go you got it now all right I'm getting the eyebrow
lift that means he's got it another Super Speed usb3 headphones and SD card
at the back you find nothing very very very clean overall design they've
maintained that they have added a multi-touch pad so here we go now we can
use the Ultrabook the way that it truly is meant to be used because at desktops
the screen's too far away to really to really touch it all the time but with an
Ultrabook now you can carry it around like this you can sort of click away on
it like this you can touch it when that's appropriate so you can you know
go look at the weather and you you can basically you can use it however you
want I wouldn't personally buy an Ultrabook without touch so if you're
looking for Zenbook it's going to be worth the extra couple bucks pick up the
Zenbook touch what kind of specs do we have available with it Core I5 or core
i7 13.3 in for this particular guy and
as always it's running Intel HD graphics it's pretty hard to put like a you know
GTX 680 and something like a touch something like an Ultra Book backl
keyboard looks absolutely beautiful it's hard to tell in here with all the light
but if we were able to kind of cover it up somewhat for you you'd be able to get
a better look at that can you see okay there we go
just gorgeous so all right moving on to the very drive so one of the Prime
complaints about Ultra books and small
form factor anything is expansion you know oh yeah I love it but you know I
miss having you know hardwired gigabit Ethernet I miss this I miss that okay
say goodbye to all that because this guy right here is basically the answer to
your prayers it's just a little Allin one unit that acts like an expander so
instead of plugging into a dock where it's like this huge bulky thing on your
desk in order to get inre increased IO you just use this guy there's a SL a
slot loading optical drive in the top nice sort of soft touch finish on the
back so it's not going to go anywhere it's not going to fall down it's not
going to move once you put it down on the side you've got usb3 here's the usb3
input and the power in two more usb3 so this adds two additional usb3 out uh
usb3 ports to your Ultrabook or your other PC Ethernet and you get more
output options that are using more standard connectors rather than
something like micro HDMI for example it's not limited to just being used with
something like a Zenbook though you can use it with whatever you want but I
think anyone who enjoys mobile computer oh I mean check this out it's not even
that big so if you have you know like a backpack and you got your Ultrabook in
there you keep this in one of the other Pockets now you have the benefits of
super ultr mobile Computing plus super ultra versatile Computing and I made
both of those things up so I should put a little TM so that no one steals my
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