we're here in the ASUS Suite having a look at what might be one of the coolest
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linkis this is yet another notebook from
a no I'm just kidding this this is the tx300 Transformer book so this is a
notebook it is a tablet so much like their Tai Chi you can use it in either
form but unlike the
taiichi you can now completely detach it
from the base so the joke I was making when we first walked in here because uh
diesel has a has a has a very large Android phone was this is probably the
next Evolution for you just kind of like yeah oh no hold on I'm I'm in I I'm in
an I'm in an I'm in an elevator sorry I can't you're breaking up sorry you know
standing there like that everyone sees this happening but seriously guys it
comes with a core i5 or a core i7 this
particular unit as a whole meets the Ultrabook specification from Intel which
means that it's extremely thin extremely light has those security features
includes high-speed connectivity in this case uh in all likelihood usb3 on the
base station but we're going to find that after runs for four to 5 hours on
battery which is competitive with something like a Surface Pro from
Microsoft except for the immensely
larger screen it's an IPS panel that runs at full HD 1920 by 1080 it has up
to 128 gig MSA SSD and pretty much
everything is in here now that Transformer branding you guys have seen
it before you know what it comes with you've got a couple things that you can
take for granted number one is there's probably a detachable keyboard of some
sort in this case the detachable keyboard has a keyboard it's got extra
battery life it it's got a touchpad it's also a Windows 8 machine so the
experience using this is going to be way better than on an Android device then
you got a bunch of other stuff there's a magnetic power SD expansion some
indicator LEDs okay okay okay nothing that exceptional yet here we go two
super speed USB 3 ports DisplayPort and
full-sized Ethernet Jack so you can use it as a wired sort of dock station once
you attach it to the base the bottom is just a gorgeous brush Metal finish you
got that diesel yeah looks good looks good and the hinge as always on
Transformer products feels very very rigid and very solid so once without the
screen attached you can hardly move the thing it's very solid chicklet style
keyboard again something we've come to expect so the rest of the layout is
actually a lot like you'd expect from a typical tablet You' got your volume
you've got your battery indicator you've got your HDMI out so it's micro HDMI out
so you can do HDMI here or DisplayPort on the base you've got headphones out
micro SD which gives you two SD expansion options fulls size SD and
micro SD you've got aha this is a new
dock connector well why did they do that lius
I'm going to tell you why in just a moment as soon as I make sure that there's nothing else here that I have to
show you and there's your power button up there very very slim I'm actually
going to do this I'm in the ASUS suite and I'm pulling out my iPhone for the thickness comparison there there you go
I'm just trying to prove a point that the ASUS product is incredibly slim you
got that awesome check this out not only
do you get expanded everything else you get expanded storage by plugging it in
to the base station so it comes with I think it's a 500 gig hard drive so it's
got a one oh hold on I think I got that repositioned kind of funny so I'm going
to have to there we go it comes with a I'm breaking everything no one's looking
right okay good it comes with an SSD in here and a 500 gig hard drive in there
which means it really it has all the functionality of a full notebook and all
the functionality of a very large tablet
or smartphone running full windows8 no RT nonsense because it's running a core
i5 or core i7 processor so thank you for checking out this video on the tx300
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