Guys, welcome to our first video from CES 2013. We're here in the ASUS
notebooks suite. Well, notebooks and tablets. And I think you're going to see
that the line has been somewhat blurred between those categories based on what
we're about to show you here today. Welcome to Linus Tech Tips at CES 2013.
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So, right here is the Taiichi 21 and the Taichi 31. The Taiichi 21 we've sort of
seen before. It's an 11.6 in tablet with 10point multi-touch. But did I say
tablet? Did I say notebook? See, I'm getting confused already because it is a
notebook. It is a tablet and you've got
a wide variety of different ways that you can actually interact with it. So,
see how quickly it wakes up from sleep, too. I love Windows 8. So, check this
out, guys. We're going to go to the desktop here. So, we're going to click
on that and I'm going to show you guys something really cool. So, think about
all the ways you can use this. This is an ultrabook, so it's super portable.
You're a sales rep. You're a photographer. You want to be able to
show someone something quickly without doing the old, well, here, let me work
on this and let me uh show it to you over there. Now, I can't see what they're doing. It's it's it's not very
it's not as interactive. So, now what you can do is you use this button right
here to decide how you want to use it. You press the enter key. Boom.
Now it's a 10point multi-touch tablet. These are two IPS screens that are built
into this notebook here. So the viewing angles are fantastic. And the
brightness, as we've come to expect from ASUS, I mean look look at something like
a TF700. Just fantastic. Is well meets
expectations, but I guess that that doesn't sound as good as it actually is.
Now the next mode you can do is check this out.
Mirror. So now there's the presentation scenario I'm talking about. Instead of
it just being a tablet, now it's got a tablet side where you can interact with
it through touch, but that exact same thing is now showed on the non-touch
side where you're expected to interact with a keyboard and a touchpad. Last but
not least, this guy right here. So this is an extend mode. Basically, what
you're doing is you're taking that screen on the back and pretending that
it swings out this way. So it's an extended desktop. So you can do
something like if you're sitting working, the kids are bothering you. I
mean they're they're distracting you in some way. You go look, sit over there
where I can see you. They wrecked something. They're in timeout. You go look. Okay, fine. Here, watch a movie.
Drag it over to the other video or to the other screen. Maximize it. Boom.
You're watching a video over here. So four different ways you can use it. This
guy right here is a new version. So now it comes in a 13.3 in size, still full
HD, so 1920 x 1080, and basically more
of the same. So here, let's get some uh let's get some really nice sort of
glamour shots of this. Remember guys, this is an ultrabook. In spite of the
fact that ASUS has built another screen, a piece of glass, which adds to the
weight, adds to the thickness, this is still meeting the Intel Ultrabook
specification while also being a full-blown Windows 8 tablet. Now,
very, very, very cool stuff. On this side, you can see we've got a few different things here. So, give me one
moment. And I'm going to find out what this little button does. ASUS is finding
out for us, but we actually figured it out already. So, what this does is it
completely disables the back screen. So, even if you accidentally hit one of the
uh the hotkeys to change the screen modes on it, it will just not go to that
one. It keeps it it actually keeps it off. So, other than that, we've got
power, we've got an indicator LED, micro HDMI, VGA that you can output with an
adapter, super speed USB 3. Remember guys, super speed USB3 or Thunderbolt
are requirements. You have to have one or the other to get the ultrabook status
from Intel. We have another super speed USB 3. So, ASUS has done not one but two
of those. Finally, SD expansion volume control. Remember, it's a you need a
dedicated hardware volume control switch because of the fact that it is both a
notebook and a tablet. So, thanks for checking out our coverage of the Tai Chi
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