ASUS TX300 Transformer Book Tablet Windows 8 - Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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we're here in the ASUS Suite having a look at what might be one of the coolest
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things that we are going to see here at the show this year welcome to lonus Tech
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linkis this is yet another notebook from
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a no I'm just kidding this this is the tx300 Transformer book so this is a
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notebook it is a tablet so much like their Tai Chi you can use it in either
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form but unlike the
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taiichi you can now completely detach it
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from the base so the joke I was making when we first walked in here because uh
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diesel has a has a has a very large Android phone was this is probably the
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next Evolution for you just kind of like yeah oh no hold on I'm I'm in I I'm in
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an I'm in an I'm in an elevator sorry I can't you're breaking up sorry you know
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standing there like that everyone sees this happening but seriously guys it
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comes with a core i5 or a core i7 this
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particular unit as a whole meets the Ultrabook specification from Intel which
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means that it's extremely thin extremely light has those security features
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includes high-speed connectivity in this case uh in all likelihood usb3 on the
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base station but we're going to find that after runs for four to 5 hours on
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battery which is competitive with something like a Surface Pro from
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Microsoft except for the immensely
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larger screen it's an IPS panel that runs at full HD 1920 by 1080 it has up
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to 128 gig MSA SSD and pretty much
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everything is in here now that Transformer branding you guys have seen
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it before you know what it comes with you've got a couple things that you can
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take for granted number one is there's probably a detachable keyboard of some
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sort in this case the detachable keyboard has a keyboard it's got extra
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battery life it it's got a touchpad it's also a Windows 8 machine so the
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experience using this is going to be way better than on an Android device then
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you got a bunch of other stuff there's a magnetic power SD expansion some
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indicator LEDs okay okay okay nothing that exceptional yet here we go two
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super speed USB 3 ports DisplayPort and
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full-sized Ethernet Jack so you can use it as a wired sort of dock station once
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you attach it to the base the bottom is just a gorgeous brush Metal finish you
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got that diesel yeah looks good looks good and the hinge as always on
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Transformer products feels very very rigid and very solid so once without the
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screen attached you can hardly move the thing it's very solid chicklet style
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keyboard again something we've come to expect so the rest of the layout is
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actually a lot like you'd expect from a typical tablet You' got your volume
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you've got your battery indicator you've got your HDMI out so it's micro HDMI out
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so you can do HDMI here or DisplayPort on the base you've got headphones out
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micro SD which gives you two SD expansion options fulls size SD and
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micro SD you've got aha this is a new
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dock connector well why did they do that lius
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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
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show you and there's your power button up there very very slim I'm actually
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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
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I'm just trying to prove a point that the ASUS product is incredibly slim you
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got that awesome check this out not only
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do you get expanded everything else you get expanded storage by plugging it in
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to the base station so it comes with I think it's a 500 gig hard drive so it's
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got a one oh hold on I think I got that repositioned kind of funny so I'm going
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to have to there we go it comes with a I'm breaking everything no one's looking
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right okay good it comes with an SSD in here and a 500 gig hard drive in there
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which means it really it has all the functionality of a full notebook and all
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the functionality of a very large tablet
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or smartphone running full windows8 no RT nonsense because it's running a core
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i5 or core i7 processor so thank you for checking out this video on the tx300
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