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is nc.com so it's time to check out some isus systems we're going to be starting

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with a couple of tablets that are very closely related so these are memopad 302

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series tablets both of them and the key difference is okay this one's got LTE

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okay this one is a Wi-Fi only model this one's got eight hours of battery life

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this one has 10 hours of battery life and this threw me for a bit of a loop

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because I wasn't expecting an Android-based tablet to have an Intel

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processor inside it so it's an Atom z2560 Processor running at 1.6 GHz that

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enables ASUS to achieve the battery life that they have on this and it's not

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because of skipping on other components they're both using full 1920x 1200

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resolution displays which I personally love I like having the extra vertical

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even when I'm using it in a horizontal configuration and with a 10-hour battery

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life you're now getting all day Computing out of it now this is something that as spent a lot of time on

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with this tablet and I personally love it I actually preferred the original

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Transformer the 101 to almost anything

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that came after it with the exception of the Nexus 7 and the reason for that is

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because I personally prefer a textured finish on the back so if I could get you

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to check this out they have brought back the golf ball textured experience to the

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back now the great thing about a metal backing is it looks fantastic in

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pictures which is fine and good but at the end of the day you're going to bring

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the thing home you're going to stain it with your fingerprints it's going to get

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warm to the touch and what a plastic backing does is it is more comfortable

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to hold you can easily hold it with one hand and not worry about accidentally

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dropping the thing I think I'm making people nervous shaking the tablet around

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like this but awesome love to see The

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Innovation it's also going to be in a number of different colors so this is a

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black one I think this is the first time we've seen a black backed tablet from

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ASUS at least in my territory so it might not be the first time here but

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it's going to come in a number of different colors including white black

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as well as sort of a pinky peachy color

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I was wrong okay so I'm still happy cuz

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it looks like black and I personally love black tablets but apparently it is

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actually a very dark blue so my bad and

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I also should have mentioned before that both of the tablets have two gigs of RAM

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built in which means you're going to be able to get a much more satisfying

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multitasking experience now my big problem with lowcost tablets in the past

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has always been that you kind of look at the thing and you go okay I guess it's

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kind of built okay and uh you know it's

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fast enough I could probably use this just for some basic functionality but

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the problem is that the screen is always terrible just absolutely terrible so

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this is where the memopad hd7 comes in from ASUS this is a relatively lowcost

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tablet and when I sell okay so I'll reveal the price later but it uses a

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lowcost Qualcomm CPU it's got 1 gig of

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RAM it runs Android Jelly Bean 16 gigs onboard memory 16 gigs of web storage

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it's got the usual expansion so you've got a Micro SD slot here on the left

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side it's quite slim I mean not super slim it's kind of about like a Nexus 7

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Up on the top this is neat you've got USB on the go support so you can plug in

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whatever it is you need to do via USB but this is the kicker it has a 1280 by

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800 IPS display which means you get that viewing angle and that content

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consumption enjoyment that you just can't get from a cheap TN panel and all

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of that is coming in at a price that's below $150 from a brand that you can actually

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trust as opposed to one that you've never heard the name of before you have

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no idea if you can get warranty support the game's pretty much changed now

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because there's going to be no reason to buy a low-end tablet from anyone other

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than as now the first time we saw this

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concept was at CES with the Transformer AIO which was a Windows-based all-in-one

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but when you disconnected the display it

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turned into an Android-based 18 1/2 in tablet now we're seeing what I

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personally find to be a more refined version of that Concept in a very very

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usable form factor so check this out this is the Transformer book Trio which

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Jus is calling the world's first threein one Notebook tablet and desktop PC so

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you can you can use it three different ways right here they've got it demoed

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attached to a keyboard so it is a multi-touch Windows notebook running an

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Intel Core i7 up to a core i7 fourth generation Haswell processor you can

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have up to a 1 tbte hybrid drive inside

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so that gives you that performance that you need from an SSD but with that mass

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storage that you like from a hard drive okay then okay usage case number two you

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detach it from the base and all of a sudden you've got yourself an Android

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tablet now this is running an Intel Atom Processor you can have up to 64 gigs of

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flash base storage on it and you can see right here if I pull out my uh my usual

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phone thickness comparison we can't get these things out of the case but that's

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okay we can make do with what we have it is a very reasonable size tablet in

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spite of having all that extra connectivity that goes into making it

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compatible with the base station now let's move on to use case number three

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you can actually use it Standalone without the dock without the Android

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operating system as a Windows-based PC

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so we've got an ASUS monitor here this is from their MX Series this is the MX

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2798 we've actually checked this out this features their bang and Olson

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speaker technology so this gives you the ability to use it as a dock without

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basically plugging anything into it at all so there's a single cable running

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between the base station here and the ASUS monitor although of course if you

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wanted to use a mouse or something like that you'd have to hook that up

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separately so very very cool product giving you the flexibility to use either

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a Windows or Android operating system and anything from a notebook to a tablet

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to a sitting at a desk type of usage scenario by now you're probably pretty

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familiar with ASUS's Zenbook line of Ultrabooks but this one is a little bit

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new now I whine and gripe and complain

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incessantly about Metal fin es on the backs of tablets on the tops of

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notebooks because the problem with them is that they always get all stained and

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fingerprint and ugly check this out right here this has the same kind of

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circular design hopefully you can get a couple different angles there and you

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can check it out as we've seen on some previous ASUS products such as the

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TF700 but the key difference here is

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that ASUS has Corin Gorilla Glass 3 on

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not only the touch surface of the notebook but also on the back of it so

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what they're calling it as as their tagline is clearly brilliant The

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Notebook that never loses its shine so it will look like that from the day you

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get it to the day you no longer need it anymore for whatever reason and all

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you'll have to do to keep it clean and looking beautiful is give it a wipe down

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so we can't get it out of the case unfortunately but just for the sake of

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size comparison if we can get kind of a look at it it's a pretty familiar form

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factor from what we've seen from ASUS and their Zenbook line it also features

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Intel's new fourth generation Haswell core i7 processor meaning you're going

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to get better battery life better performance and with Gorilla Glass 3

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better durability so it's much more scratch resistant than Gorilla Glass 2

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in fact there have been complaints out there that oh Gorilla Glass 3 doesn't

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improve much over Gorilla Glass 2 from guys that are more interested in phones

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because it can tend to be a little bit more breakable but it is much more

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scratch resistant which personally I don't drop my notebook that often so I'm

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more worried about it getting scuffed up and dinged up when I'm putting it in and

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out of a bag very cool stuff now right now behind us there has to be the most

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obnoxious stage display that I've ever

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seen before in my life but fortunately this product isn't so much about the

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audio experience and is more about the visual experience this is the PQ 321

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ASUS has already teased this so there's a little bit of information that's been

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available already but it is a 4K display

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that means it runs at four times HD 3840

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by 2160 so effectively this is four

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1080p displays stretched out now there

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are some technical complications with 4K

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that do make it inherently more expensive in addition to just the

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increased pixel density because this is only a 31 and A2 in display compared to

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I mean obviously it's a lot easier to put you know in a 24in display only 1920

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x 1080 pixels so there's that there's the increased amount of image processing

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that needs to go on and remember if you're going to Market a display for

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consumers and intend for people to watch movies and play games on it it's going

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to have to have fast enough pixel response time meaning faster processing

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in order to make sure that you don't get any motion blur or ghosting or input leg

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that's going to take away from the experience one of the other challenges

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is inputs it supports a dual HDMI input

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which means you're actually using two HDMI ports in tandem but there are some

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technological limitations there the display interfaces haven't really all

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caught up so the alternative is to use DisplayPort which means you're going to

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be able to run at the full 60 HZ refresh rate of this display without any sort of

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Funky Monkey Business it's using a sharp

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exop panel which means that if you've ever seen one of those you should have

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some idea what to expect in terms of viewing angles as well as color

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reproduction but we might as well play around with it a little bit here so we

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can show you guys it does have pivot it

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has height adjust so yeah whatever it's it's sort of secured so I'm sure they

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won't mind if we move things around too oh okay I see it has height adjust but

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apparently I can't move it right now for whatever reason you can actually see all

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the display inputs here on the side if you want to check it out so ASUS

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generally recommends using DisplayPort in not the dual HDMI input there's also

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an audio in and audio out pass through check out all that cooling on the back

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of the display as well so that should give you some idea what I was talking

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about before with the increased uh with the increased processing that's going on

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here I don't think we're going to get pivot out of this one so it is a bit on the heavy side because that tends to

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happen when you get these large format displays and personally I'm incredibly

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excited about more than anything else the gaming experience that this is going

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to enable on the desktop PC there was a thread on the Linus Tech tips Forum not

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that long ago about how no games support 4K yeah no console games pretty much any

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PC game going back to like you know Quake free you can manually key in a 4K

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resolution you can run that at extremely high res ultra high def 4K so thank you

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for checking out our coverage of the ASUS monitors and notebooks and tablets

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