ASUS Tai Chi 31 Notebook/Tablet Windows 8 - Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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Guys, welcome to our first video from CES 2013. We're here in the ASUS
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notebooks suite. Well, notebooks and tablets. And I think you're going to see
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that the line has been somewhat blurred between those categories based on what
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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
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seen before. It's an 11.6 in tablet with 10point multi-touch. But did I say
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tablet? Did I say notebook? See, I'm getting confused already because it is a
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notebook. It is a tablet and you've got
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a wide variety of different ways that you can actually interact with it. So,
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see how quickly it wakes up from sleep, too. I love Windows 8. So, check this
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out, guys. We're going to go to the desktop here. So, we're going to click
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on that and I'm going to show you guys something really cool. So, think about
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all the ways you can use this. This is an ultrabook, so it's super portable.
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You're a sales rep. You're a photographer. You want to be able to
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show someone something quickly without doing the old, well, here, let me work
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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
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it's not as interactive. So, now what you can do is you use this button right
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here to decide how you want to use it. You press the enter key. Boom.
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Now it's a 10point multi-touch tablet. These are two IPS screens that are built
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into this notebook here. So the viewing angles are fantastic. And the
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brightness, as we've come to expect from ASUS, I mean look look at something like
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a TF700. Just fantastic. Is well meets
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expectations, but I guess that that doesn't sound as good as it actually is.
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Now the next mode you can do is check this out.
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Mirror. So now there's the presentation scenario I'm talking about. Instead of
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it just being a tablet, now it's got a tablet side where you can interact with
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it through touch, but that exact same thing is now showed on the non-touch
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side where you're expected to interact with a keyboard and a touchpad. Last but
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not least, this guy right here. So this is an extend mode. Basically, what
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you're doing is you're taking that screen on the back and pretending that
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it swings out this way. So it's an extended desktop. So you can do
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something like if you're sitting working, the kids are bothering you. I
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mean they're they're distracting you in some way. You go look, sit over there
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where I can see you. They wrecked something. They're in timeout. You go look. Okay, fine. Here, watch a movie.
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Drag it over to the other video or to the other screen. Maximize it. Boom.
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You're watching a video over here. So four different ways you can use it. This
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guy right here is a new version. So now it comes in a 13.3 in size, still full
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HD, so 1920 x 1080, and basically more
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of the same. So here, let's get some uh let's get some really nice sort of
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glamour shots of this. Remember guys, this is an ultrabook. In spite of the
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fact that ASUS has built another screen, a piece of glass, which adds to the
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weight, adds to the thickness, this is still meeting the Intel Ultrabook
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specification while also being a full-blown Windows 8 tablet. Now,
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very, very, very cool stuff. On this side, you can see we've got a few different things here. So, give me one
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moment. And I'm going to find out what this little button does. ASUS is finding
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out for us, but we actually figured it out already. So, what this does is it
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completely disables the back screen. So, even if you accidentally hit one of the
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uh the hotkeys to change the screen modes on it, it will just not go to that
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one. It keeps it it actually keeps it off. So, other than that, we've got
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power, we've got an indicator LED, micro HDMI, VGA that you can output with an
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adapter, super speed USB 3. Remember guys, super speed USB3 or Thunderbolt
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are requirements. You have to have one or the other to get the ultrabook status
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from Intel. We have another super speed USB 3. So, ASUS has done not one but two
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of those. Finally, SD expansion volume control. Remember, it's a you need a
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dedicated hardware volume control switch because of the fact that it is both a
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notebook and a tablet. So, thanks for checking out our coverage of the Tai Chi
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21 and Tai Chi 31. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more
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