ASUS Transformer Book Duet TD300, G750JZ Gaming Notebook, Vivotab Note 8 - CES 2014
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·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for
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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
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Digital we're kicking things off here in the ASUS system Suite with the
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Transformer book duet td300 the first
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transforming device that I really see myself using the transforming
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functionality of pretty much on a daily basis it can handle being a Windows 8.1
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notebook or tablet and it can handle
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being an Android notebook or tablet and
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you can switch between them all very very quickly and seamlessly in terms of
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Hardware it can handle an Intel core I3 I5 or i7 processor it's got 4 gigs of
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RAM you can put SSD based storage in the top while it'll come with that and it
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also comes with hard drive based storage in the keyboard dock itself so that
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gives you the best of both worlds and finally it has a 1080p full HD display
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on this particular one although they've got sort of like a slash on the card so
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I think it'll also be available in a 13 66 X 768 model so I want to show you
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guys how exactly the transformation Works to detach the clam shell all you
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do is press the button in the middle this is actually better than many of the
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Transformer mechanisms I've seen from ASUS in the past and then you can
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reattach it simply by latching it back in place at which time you'll see the
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storage inside the keyboard dock is detected now to transform between
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Windows and Android is actually a bit of a treat so it only takes about 4
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seconds you press this little button button yes there is an app for that
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completely changing your OS and all of a sudden you go from Windows 8.1 to
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Android and you can imagine Android is going to absolutely fly on something
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like a core i7 processor so then to switch back between Android and
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Windows we go ahead and press the OS Switch app and within about 4 seconds we
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are back in Windows 8.1 very very cool
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let's finish this up with a quick look at what we've got in terms of IO on the
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left hand side we've got gigabit Ethernet USB 3 super speed and HDMI as
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well as power in and then on the right hand side we've got a keyboard I should
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I say keyboard well we've got a USB port you could technically plug a keyboard
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into that as well as a microphone headphone combo Jack next up we've got
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the g750 JZ the unique thing about this
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notebook is that it does not come in a box it comes with a
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wrapper sorry for that anyway it comes with a core i7 processor it supports up
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to two 2 and 1/2 in drives so in the US that'll probably
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equate to a large SSD with a large hard drive although the final specs are not
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necessarily available yet particularly
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with regards to the graphics card so it has a Next Generation presumably very
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high-end to go along with the rest of the high-end specs graphics card from am
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I allowed to say who it's even from yes it is from NVIDIA so I'm sure you guys
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can all use your vivid imaginations to figure out what that's likely to be it
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supports up to 32 gigabytes of memory so it has eight dim slots it's got a full
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HD display it runs Windows 8.1 it's got a Blu-ray Drive and of course it has the
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ID that we have come to expect from ASUS gaming notebooks with the business in
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the front that is to say your full layout keyboard including a number pad
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nice large trackpad and the party in the back so that's where you're going to
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have all of the cooling including your ventilation as well as your fans that
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keep ASUS gaming notebooks particularly cool running now it's not that thin but
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this is yet another hint about that graphics card with the kind of Graphics
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horsepower that this notebook is likely to have putting it in an extremely thin
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form factor might not be possible and if you're looking for the ultimate ortable
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graphics with a fourth gen aswell processor and a fantastic Next
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Generation graphics card this looks like it should be it next up we're here with
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the m8a which may be the ultimate notetaking tablet for example it
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features a 5 megapixel camera on the back okay no we've seen this before what
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it actually has that's a little bit on the unique side is a quad core betay
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Trail processor it's got 2 gigs of RAM it's available in 32 gig or 64 gig
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configurations it has a 1280x 800 resolution IPS display and most
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importantly of all it has a walkom digitizer so that is
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1,24 levels of pressure sensitivity and
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it means that you can use a passive pen in order to achieve said desirable many
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levels of pressure Sensi ensity so that means you can draw notes you can write
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notes you can take pictures of notes because this is running on an x86
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compatible architecture it comes so not
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only is it compatible with Microsoft Office it comes with Microsoft Office so
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you can use a Bluetooth keyboard to type your notes and I think that pretty much
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oh yeah all of that and it'll like basically fit into a little sleeve in
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your backpack or a large coat pocket thanks for checking out our coverage of
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