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The Transformer Book is, or will be, a hybrid laptop-tablet device that ASUS will try to sell to as many people as possible starting this month.
Previously, there wasn't much information on the device, no more than what leaks usually expose anyway, although plenty could be discovered through conjecture.
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16 May 2013
10:38 GMT |
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Having already become acquainted with the “Classic” series of Z87 chipset-based motherboards from ASUS, some might be tempted to think the company only has those five to promote, but that would be false.
As it turns out, those are definitely not the only motherboards, and not even the strongest, somethi... |
16 May 2013
07:39 GMT |
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Unlike ECS, ASUS is being quite forthcoming in regard to its motherboard lineup that is supposed to welcome Intel's Haswell series of central processing units (fourth-generation Core).
There are five motherboards based on the Z87 chipset: Z87-C, Z87-A, Z87-PLUS, Z87-PRO and Z87-DELUXE.
The first two are entry... |
16 May 2013
03:30 GMT |
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The GeForce GTX 780 and GTX 770 have been stealing most of the limelight lately, but ASUS has been working on 600-series boards anyway.
Which is why a new one has shown up on its website, though it is only available for pre-order at the moment.
Shipments will only start being carried out on May 20, as revealed by N... |
15 May 2013
09:56 GMT |
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ASUS has released two BIOS packages, namely the 4004 and 4005 versions, that are targeted at some of its motherboards.
Specifically speaking, the compatible boards are the Rampage IX Formula, IV Gene, and IV Extreme (4004), and Sabertooth X79 (4005). Moreover, the P9X79, P9X79 PRO, P9X79 LE, and P9X79 Deluxe are als... |
15 May 2013
09:11 GMT |
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Since May is almost half-over, IT companies, like corporations from every other industry, are making their financial reports for the previous month.
Acer and ASUS are among the less enthusiastic of IT players, as both of them have suffered great drops in revenue.
ASUS arguably had an easier time. While its finances... |
13 May 2013
08:09 GMT |
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One thing about routers is that, for all their capabilities, they have some limitations that people might find very troublesome, especially in large homes with many rooms, and by extension walls and furniture.
Basically, though wireless routers have a good range most of the time, and a performance which can go from... |
13 May 2013
03:00 GMT |
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ASUS has outed the 10.6.8.9 firmware version that is compatible with its PadFone Infinity device. The newly released package improves, just like the 10.6.8.1 version, the device’s overall performance and stability. In addition to that, applications benefit from improved stability and a few workarounds regardin... |
10 May 2013
09:16 GMT |
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Next month, June 2013, Taipei, Taiwan will host the annual Computex trade show, where many IT companies will launch new products and share their roadmaps. ASUS, naturally, is among them.
Obviously, the company hasn't announced the products it will showcase there. That would mean jumping the gun by thirty days. ... |
10 May 2013
02:46 GMT |
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ASUS is one of the companies that continue to bet big on Windows 8 tablets, even though early sales of this particular sector aren’t quite impressive.
ASUS chief Jerry Shen told the Wall Street Journal that the company is looking to develop new and smaller Windows 8 tablets, possibly below $300 (€230), th... |
7 May 2013
19:21 GMT |
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By making Windows RT, Microsoft tried to charm the ARM crowd, but it mostly failed, which left it with the Windows 8 operating system for x86 CPUs. ASUS intends to cash in on it. There are many Windows 8 tablets on the market, even if they don't sell that well compared to Android on ARM slates. Most of them ha... |
7 May 2013
03:16 GMT |
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After Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T has been updated, ASUS has released a new firmware version 5.0.4.12 for the Transformer Pad Infinity TF700KL.
The new package installs the Android 4.1.1 OS on the Eee Pad tablet, and may also bring improvements to the device’s overall performance, although no official chan... |
29 April 2013
07:24 GMT |
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Chromebooks have still not gained any sort of ground with consumers, though some did warm up to the idea of always-on laptops. That hasn't demoralized laptop makers that much though, not enough to prevent them from planning a new wave of them.
Both ASUS and Acer are preparing laptops with the Google Chrome ope... |
29 April 2013
05:40 GMT |
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The Transformer Pad TF300T has been out and selling for years now, but ASUS continues to offer support for it, in the form of software updates. ASUS is actually quite diligent in that regard. Among tablet vendors, it has a good reputation for keeping its devices up to date. The new update, a package of 17 MB, will ... |
26 April 2013
10:57 GMT |
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Benchmarks can be really useful things, not just because they reveal how good a product is, but also because they sometimes expose sensitive information.
In this case, some benchmark results posted on GFXBench has revealed that ASUS is working on a tablet called ME302C.
It will be part of the Eee Pad series and wil... |
26 April 2013
09:30 GMT |
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ASUS has a fairly well-known range of PC internal sound cards called Xonar Essence, but they have never sold all that much because add-in boards, in general, haven't had a strong market due to integrated audio processors in mainboards.
Still, the market for add-in or custom-made audio products will never actua... |
26 April 2013
04:51 GMT |
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ASUS has released a new firmware for its Transformer Pad TF300T tablet, namely the 10.6.1.15.3 package version, that brings improvements to the device’s overall performance. The developers managed to resolve the IME bug and other minor issues. When taken alone, these fixes don’t improve performance that ... |
26 April 2013
03:29 GMT |
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It would have been quite odd if ASUS skipped releasing a Malta graphics card, but fortunately we have been spared the awkwardness of the absence of such an announcement. Much like Club 3D and Origin PC, the company took the AMD Radeon HD 7990, slapped its logo stickers on the fans and shoved it into a box bearing i... |
24 April 2013
08:44 GMT |
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ASUS has released a new firmware, version 10.4.15.1, targeted at its PadFone 2 device, after almost a month since the 10.4.12.24 version, which brought a large number of improvements, was unveiled.
Just like MeMO Pad Smart and PadFone Infinity, ASUS’ PadFone 2 and PadFone 2 Station now benefit from workaround... |
24 April 2013
04:06 GMT |
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ASUS has recently launched a firmware update for their PadFone Infinity 2-in-1 product. Version 10.6.8.1 comes with no changelog or installation notes. All ASUS provides is a warning regarding the SKU version. In order for the update to apply properly, one must first check the SKU version of the device. To do so, ... |
23 April 2013
09:09 GMT |
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On Wednesday, ASUS appears set to unveil to the world all the necessary info on the upcoming availability of its ASUS Fonepad on the market in India, and it has already started to send out invitations to the launch event set for that day.
Although specific details on the device’s availability and pricing haven... |
22 April 2013
16:51 GMT |
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Today, ASUS releases the firmware version that lets the MeMO Pad Smart 10 taste a new flavor of Jelly Bean, namely the Android 4.2 OS. The 10.6.1.15.4 version may also bring improvements and enhancement to the device's overall performance. Before you consider installing the new firmware, you should know your st... |
22 April 2013
08:54 GMT |
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When we saw that ASUS was ready to launch the RAIDR PCI Express SSD, we commented on how odd it was for the ROG brand (Republic of Gamers) to land on a storage unit of the sort. What we didn't say was that the oddity stemmed more from the fact that ASUS did not have any SSDs on the market before then. Yet, w... |
19 April 2013
08:34 GMT |
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There's something to say about audio cards: they are mostly the same in how clear and loud they produce the sound, which is why most people don't buy them, settling for the integrated audio of motherboards instead. Every once in a while, however, hardware makers risk by launching a sound board. Creative is... |
19 April 2013
05:02 GMT |
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ASUS has recently launched firmware version 10.4.5.45 for their Transformer AiO P1801. This release addresses the tablet mode of the device that, after the installation procedure, will run Android 4.1.1. In a previous post, we've mentioned what this device is all about and how it turns from tablet to desktop PC... |
18 April 2013
09:51 GMT |
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ASUS may not be the kind of company anyone would expect to launch a PCI Express solid-state drive, but nevertheless here we are, waiting on the RAIDR compound storage card.
Previously, the Republic of Gamers brand was one that ASUS strapped onto its very best motherboards, graphics cards, notebooks, audio devices a... |
18 April 2013
06:00 GMT |
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Out of all the graphics cards brands in the world, we wouldn't really have expected Palit to become number one, and we definitely can't claim to have heard of PC Partner all that much, although its Sapphire brand is quite often found online.
In any case, according to Digitimes, these two are currently the ... |
17 April 2013
10:58 GMT |
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We've seen loads of hardware parts that are meant to go inside a PC, but occasionally something will crop up that shakes things up.
ASUS' ROG Xonar U7 is one such product, as it is a sound card which, rather than a PCI Express slot, connects to motherboards via Universal Serial Bus.
Indeed, the Xonar U7 i... |
17 April 2013
10:39 GMT |
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Like everywhere else, there is a lot of competition on the motherboard industry, as companies race against the others in their quest to secure contracts and enchant customers.
ASUS has led in terms of shipments for quite some time, but Gigabyte is a close second. A very close second if recent reports are to be belie... |
16 April 2013
13:01 GMT |
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Computer maker Asus is getting ready for the release of a new Android-based device on the market in India, none other than the Asus Fonepad that was made official in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The company did not offer specific info on the launch, but it has already started to tease the dev... |
15 April 2013
20:21 GMT |
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Nexus 7 is a tablet co-branded by ASUS and Google, which means that they both have reason to be excited about the latest rise in tablet demand.
According to Digitimes, both of them agree that 2013 looks like a very ripe year for the tablet with a Qualcomm CPU, 3G and high-rest display.
They even expect millions of ... |
15 April 2013
10:46 GMT |
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ASUS seems to be on a roll today, having revealed or leaked information on the Taichi 31 13.3-Inch ultrabook, the Cube Google TV box, an 18.4-inch Android desktop-tablet hybrid and, now, a 24-inch LCD monitor.
In some ways, the new display is quite ordinary, but in others, it is not, although one might argue that i... |
15 April 2013
07:45 GMT |
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Google TV is one of the few web TV services that managed to make itself well known, and in a relatively short time, even though it mostly rode Google's brand strength to do it. ASUS is now making the latest move in this field. As a television broadcast service that uses the Internet, it can reach viewers throu... |
15 April 2013
05:15 GMT |
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One thing about convertible notebooks/tablets is that most of them have a 360-degree hinge that spins the display half and lays it flat over the keyboard, but ASUS figured it could make things simpler.
There is also the part about the small rotating hinge being a particularly fragile part of a convertible's co... |
15 April 2013
04:00 GMT |
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On the computer and consumer electronics market, the word “convertible” used to be applied only to laptops or tablets that could turn into the other, but this hasn't been the case for a while. All-in-one computers that can lay flat on a table and act as tablets, or touch-based “tables,”... |
15 April 2013
02:28 GMT |
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Starting today, users in the UK can pre-order ASUS’ Fonepad 7-inch tablet PC, so as to ensure that they will have it in their hands when it becomes officially available for purchase in the country on April 26.
At the moment, the device can be seen listed on this page on Amazon UK’s website with a price ... |
12 April 2013
10:40 GMT |
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ASUS' Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T tablet has just received a new firmware update. Version 10.6.1.14.4 is now available for download and offers the pleasure of flashing it yourself.
Given its size (around 500 MB), it becomes obvious why this is not an OTA update.
Unfortunately, ASUS did not provide a change... |
11 April 2013
07:46 GMT |
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Ultrabooks may be more often talked about, as a sort of new generation of laptops, but normal notebooks still have their advantages, and it's not like they weigh all that much in the end. And yet, the ASUS VivoBook S500 is something that can be called both ultrabook and “normal” notebook, if only ... |
11 April 2013
06:05 GMT |
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If you’re tired of waiting a whole night / day for your big iPad to charge, you might be interested in checking out the ASUS Ai Charger, a software product that reportedly speeds up iDevice charging by 50%. I’ll admit it sounds a bit fantastic, but the solution has been tested and it reportedly works as ... |
9 April 2013
10:07 GMT |
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Softpedia now hosts ASUS' ET2701INTI All-in-one PC drivers list. On it, you will find updates for your integrated Intel HD Graphics GPU, as well as for the NVIDIA discrete graphics chip. You might notice that there is only Windows 7 (on both 32- and 64-bit architecture) and 8 (only on 64-bit) support. Inside t... |
5 April 2013
10:21 GMT |
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Of the mobile graphics processing units released by NVIDIA a few days ago, the strongest was the GT 750M. Word has it that a GTX 760M would appear eventually though, but it is doubly strange that it isn't that particular GPU that ASUS is using. Instead, the company has chosen to employ a still unannounced pr... |
5 April 2013
09:56 GMT |
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It would have been strange if NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan graphics card didn't score some nice overclocking/benchmarking records, so instead of being surprised by ASUS' latest announcement we can only wonder what it took it so long.
Then again, overclocking feats have been published as far back as Feb... |
5 April 2013
02:29 GMT |
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The Transformer Pad Infinity is one of the more popular tablets on the market right now, with its Tegra 3 platform and Android operating system.
It does have a drawback though, or had one until just now. Or perhaps we should say that it will have it for a very short while more: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich instead... |
4 April 2013
08:17 GMT |
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Anyone who saw the ROG Rampage IV Extreme knows just what kind of overpowered motherboard it is, even among high-end platforms.
The Republic of Gamers (ROG) brand is basically defined by overkill really.
Still, whether in spite or because of that overkill, the hardware usually has no trouble selling.
Occasionally,... |
4 April 2013
04:39 GMT |
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Having covered the market for small form factor PCs when it put together the GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini graphics card, ASUS is now preparing a stronger and larger board. Called GeForce GTX 660 Ti Dragon, it has a clock speed of up to 1,150 MHz for the GPU, an 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM with memory frequency of 6.1 GHz. ... |
3 April 2013
08:18 GMT |
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When it comes to small form factor PCs, the ideal graphics card is a low-profile, short model that still has decent capabilities.
The higher the performance is, however, the harder it gets to meet all those criteria.
That is why the ASUS GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini is noteworthy even though it has a full-height P... |
3 April 2013
04:54 GMT |
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Mountain View-based Internet giant Google is reportedly gearing up for the launch of a successor for last year’s Nexus 7 tablet PC, and might release it on shelves as soon as July, a new report on the matter suggests.
We have already reported on a possible new 7-inch Nexus tablet coming from Google and ASUS, ... |
3 April 2013
02:24 GMT |
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ASUS has just released a new beta driver for its Xonar Essence STX audio card. Version 8.0.8.1818 offers a language update for Russian and Japanese. The fresh release is aimed at Windows 8 only and, because it's a beta driver, we recommend caution, extensive testing and bug reporting to ASUS in order for the co... |
2 April 2013
10:34 GMT |
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ASUS’ latest addition to the motherboard category, namely the P9X79-E WS board, has all the available drivers added to our database. A remark must be made, that the motherboard supports 4-way NVIDIA GeForce SLI or AMD CrossFireX technologies.
There are three producers that help the board to get at its highest ... |
2 April 2013
07:31 GMT |
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There are high-end PCs and then there are the truly ludicrous configurations that actually come close to the April Fools’ prank that Eurocom tried to play.
What we have here, though, is a motherboard for desktops, not a laptop.
Called P9X79-E WS, it stands apart from most others because it has no fewer than seven... |
1 April 2013
09:59 GMT |
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