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Digital we're kicking things off here in the ASUS system Suite with the
Transformer book duet td300 the first
transforming device that I really see myself using the transforming
functionality of pretty much on a daily basis it can handle being a Windows 8.1
notebook or tablet and it can handle
being an Android notebook or tablet and
you can switch between them all very very quickly and seamlessly in terms of
Hardware it can handle an Intel core I3 I5 or i7 processor it's got 4 gigs of
RAM you can put SSD based storage in the top while it'll come with that and it
also comes with hard drive based storage in the keyboard dock itself so that
gives you the best of both worlds and finally it has a 1080p full HD display
on this particular one although they've got sort of like a slash on the card so
I think it'll also be available in a 13 66 X 768 model so I want to show you
guys how exactly the transformation Works to detach the clam shell all you
do is press the button in the middle this is actually better than many of the
Transformer mechanisms I've seen from ASUS in the past and then you can
reattach it simply by latching it back in place at which time you'll see the
storage inside the keyboard dock is detected now to transform between
Windows and Android is actually a bit of a treat so it only takes about 4
seconds you press this little button button yes there is an app for that
completely changing your OS and all of a sudden you go from Windows 8.1 to
Android and you can imagine Android is going to absolutely fly on something
like a core i7 processor so then to switch back between Android and
Windows we go ahead and press the OS Switch app and within about 4 seconds we
are back in Windows 8.1 very very cool
let's finish this up with a quick look at what we've got in terms of IO on the
left hand side we've got gigabit Ethernet USB 3 super speed and HDMI as
well as power in and then on the right hand side we've got a keyboard I should
I say keyboard well we've got a USB port you could technically plug a keyboard
into that as well as a microphone headphone combo Jack next up we've got
the g750 JZ the unique thing about this
notebook is that it does not come in a box it comes with a
wrapper sorry for that anyway it comes with a core i7 processor it supports up
to two 2 and 1/2 in drives so in the US that'll probably
equate to a large SSD with a large hard drive although the final specs are not
necessarily available yet particularly
with regards to the graphics card so it has a Next Generation presumably very
high-end to go along with the rest of the high-end specs graphics card from am
I allowed to say who it's even from yes it is from NVIDIA so I'm sure you guys
can all use your vivid imaginations to figure out what that's likely to be it
supports up to 32 gigabytes of memory so it has eight dim slots it's got a full
HD display it runs Windows 8.1 it's got a Blu-ray Drive and of course it has the
ID that we have come to expect from ASUS gaming notebooks with the business in
the front that is to say your full layout keyboard including a number pad
nice large trackpad and the party in the back so that's where you're going to
have all of the cooling including your ventilation as well as your fans that
keep ASUS gaming notebooks particularly cool running now it's not that thin but
this is yet another hint about that graphics card with the kind of Graphics
horsepower that this notebook is likely to have putting it in an extremely thin
form factor might not be possible and if you're looking for the ultimate ortable
graphics with a fourth gen aswell processor and a fantastic Next
Generation graphics card this looks like it should be it next up we're here with
the m8a which may be the ultimate notetaking tablet for example it
features a 5 megapixel camera on the back okay no we've seen this before what
it actually has that's a little bit on the unique side is a quad core betay
Trail processor it's got 2 gigs of RAM it's available in 32 gig or 64 gig
configurations it has a 1280x 800 resolution IPS display and most
importantly of all it has a walkom digitizer so that is
1,24 levels of pressure sensitivity and
it means that you can use a passive pen in order to achieve said desirable many
levels of pressure Sensi ensity so that means you can draw notes you can write
notes you can take pictures of notes because this is running on an x86
compatible architecture it comes so not
only is it compatible with Microsoft Office it comes with Microsoft Office so
you can use a Bluetooth keyboard to type your notes and I think that pretty much
oh yeah all of that and it'll like basically fit into a little sleeve in
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