ASUS Super Laptops & Tablets Zenbook UX305 & Transformer Book Chi Series - CES 2015
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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as well as hyperx Intel chips are finding their way into all kinds of
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fantastic stuff these days this is the Transformer book Chi actually the whole
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lineup but the one I'm holding is the T90 Chi it features an Intel betay tril
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T processor clocked at 1.46 GHz it's got a 1280 x800 IPS display so that's an 8.9
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in LED backlit display it is pH phenomenally thin actually just barely
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thick enough they actually had to add a little bit to the thickness at the edge in order to get a 3 and2 mm Jack on
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there it's got micro SD expansion volume rocker power switch and then micro USB
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it's got side mounted speakers and some pretty impressive specs given the $300
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price it's got Windows 8.1 it comes with a year of Office 365 one or two gigs of
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memory I'm assuming the 2 gig SK is going to be a little bit more 32 or 64
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gigs of emmc storage and a rear 5 m
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pixel camera with a front 2 megapixel camera it actually comes with the
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Bluetooth keyboard dock that has a little magnet in it that goes ahead and
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clips on there and it features n wireless if you want to spend another
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$100 you're going to step up to yeah I've totally got a cheat sheet here cuz
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this is a lot to remember it's three systems come on give me a break here guys so I've got the t00 chi also ultra
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slim also fairly minimal IO so you've got on this one on the left side you've
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got your audio and micro USB as well as your Windows button and volume Rock on
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the top you've got power then over on the right ah very nice now we've got
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micro HDMI a micro USB 3 that apparently
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comes with an adapter that breaks out to a female USB 3 so you can go ahead and
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plug high-speed peripherals into this as well as a Micro SD expansion slot so
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with this one you also get a larger screen so a 10.1 in touchcreen with a
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1920x 1200 resolution also IPS but other
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than that things are looking pretty much the same and then this is the Big Kahuna
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this is the T300 this is a 12 1/2 in
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display it's available in either 2560 X 1440 or 1920 x 1080 depending on how
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much you want to pay so it was $300 $400 and then this one is either 700 or $800
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depending on the resolution you want but in addition to more screen size with
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this one you also get a significantly more powerful processor so this features
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Intel's allnew 14 nanometer core M processor it's either the 5 y71 at 1.2
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GHz or the 5y10 at 0.8 GHz you also get
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four or 8 gigs of RAM Windows 8.1 you
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get 64 or 128 gigs of storage you get a
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front 2 megapixel HD camera no rear camera on this one although if you're
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running around taking pictures with a 12in tablet then you probably need to
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reexamine what you're doing with your life it features 5300 Intel HD graphics
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and I guess that's pretty much all there is to say about it it also comes with
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the dock oh yes and IO so on the left
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hand side we've got power in as well as Windows button and volume rocker on the
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top we've got a power switch on the right hand side we've got micro HDMI as
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well as micro USB with a breakout available as well as an audio port then
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on the very bottom you've got a Micro SD slot and the two magnetic clip ports
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that go into the dock just like that but
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these aren't the only stunningly thin Intel powered devices there's one more
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we've got to show you this is the one that's really got my attention this is
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the new Zenbook ux 305 it also features
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a broadw processor which is what enables it to be so stunningly thin I mean about
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as thin as could possibly be practical for a notebook I mean there's rumors
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that the new Macbook Air is going to be so thin that it can't even have a 3 and
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a half millimeter Jack but that just feels kind of silly to me this one
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you've got power in usb3 super speed you've got micro HDMI as well as a
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headphone jack yeah we do need that still and then on the other side two
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more Super Speed USB 3 and an SD slot so
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that enables it to be super thin it also gives it extremely long long battery life that's all they're quoting right
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now so we don't know too much more but I guess that stands to reason given we
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don't know too much else about the specs so you'll be able to get it with either
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a corm 5 y71 or 5y10 4 gigs or 8 gigs of
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RAM 128 gigs or 256 gigs of storage and
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then where things really get exciting is not not the wireless AC so it comes with
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wireless AC as well as HD 5300 Graphics but the display so the one that I have
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here in front of me is a matte I believe this is a 1080p display but it will also
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be available in touchscreen flavors and with up to a
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wqhd plus display so that's 3200 by 1800
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pixels and they're quoted as saying the 3200x 1800 model with touch is going to
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be less than $1,000 I couldn't get any more clarification than that like does
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less than $1,000 mean $9.99 or does it
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mean 989 or or or whatever the case may
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be but one way or Or Another We're looking at an absolutely beautiful
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notebook for under $1,000 with a design that would have cost us a couple Grand a
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few short years ago guys I hope you enjoyed our video on
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the new Chi series over lar as well as the Zenbook ux305 our trip to the show
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the gorilla glass that's already on the surface of your phone in terms of the
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can check them out at store. Phantom dog glass Linked In the video description
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and I also want to do a shout out to hyperx for allowing us to be here at CES
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2015 they've got some great gaming content on their YouTube channel that's
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