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Here we go, announcing one of the long-awaited Asus motherboards: the Maximus V GENE, a micro-ATX board as nifty as it gets.
The Maximus V GENE is based on Intel's new Z77 chipset, capable to run with both 2nd and 3rd generations of Core processors and comes with high-class components sworn to deliver stable an... |
2 April 2012
07:37 GMT |
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Remember that “awesome” update that ASUS promised for the Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet? The one that totally failed to stay secret? Well here it is.
Apparently, some users in the United States have managed to get the firmware update, and even our slates here in Europe got it.
All it takes is ... |
29 March 2012
10:27 GMT |
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If it were to use a cliche, we'd say "Welcome to the future!", but things are far from common, when it gets to one of Asus' newest additions to the motherboard family, the Sabertooth Z77.
Asus Sabertooth Z77 is the kind of motherboard you either love or hate at the very first sight; nevertheless, skipping ... |
29 March 2012
03:19 GMT |
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While netbooks may not be as popular today as they were two years ago, adding AMD’s graphics power into a new model may help ASUS transform their new U82U netbook into a best-seller. Intel-based netbooks have always been lacking in CPU processing power and even more so in the graphics department. Once AMD la... |
28 March 2012
08:43 GMT |
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Hasbro, a maker of toys and board games that sells, among other things, “Transformers” action figures, tried and failed to get a ban on ASUS using “Transformer” in its product naming schemes. Had the Eee Pads not been able to transform from tablet to laptop, and vice versa, the court may hav... |
28 March 2012
08:30 GMT |
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ASUS US may be deliberately uncooperative, but ASUS Italy didn't mind disclosing some info about the upcoming firmware update for the Transformer Prime tablet.
We mentioned that ASUS was preparing an “awesome” update for the Prime just a few hours ago.
We didn't really have any details about... |
28 March 2012
07:43 GMT |
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It wasn't really that long ago that ASUS released a new firmware for the Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet, but the company seems ready to bring a new one out.In a recent post on its Facebook page, ASUS said that some nice features would come to the Prime soon.“Awesome new features coming in the next Transf... |
28 March 2012
04:04 GMT |
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Analysts and IT companies had some expectations in regards to the notebook industry for the first quarter of 2012, but those expectations have been surpassed, or will be.
Granted, not by much, but a better outcome is always, well, better.
Anyway, Acer and ASUS experienced particularly good sales in February and c... |
27 March 2012
11:19 GMT |
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Here we go with today's BIOS listing, with a nifty assortment comprising software for Acer, Lenovo, and HP notebooks, and motherboards from Asrock, MSI, Asus and EVGA.
While the EVGA P67-based boards received a new BIOS revision about which we've written yesterday, Asrock and MSI come forth with new softwa... |
27 March 2012
10:36 GMT |
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ASUS has officially announced the latest member of their famous WS-Line of motherboards: the Z9PE-D8 WS. This is a dual LGA 2011 socket monster and packs no less than 7 PCI-Express x16 slots along with eight DDR3 DIMM slots, four for each CPU on the mainboard.Out of the seven PCI-Express x16 Slots, 4 of them work at ... |
26 March 2012
11:03 GMT |
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ASUS may have every intention of growing as a business as quickly as possible, but it might hit a snag according to Open Platform business executive Jackie Hsu. In a way, it already has really.
What Digitimes most recently said about ASUS is one of those reports that may have people laughing out loud or at least sn... |
22 March 2012
05:47 GMT |
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High-end laptops with discrete GPUs may not show up all that often anymore, what with all CPUs having integrated graphics now, but they still make the cut from time to time, as ASUS clearly shows.
ASUS has completed a new member for the K-Series of mobile personal computers, one that carries the name of K93SM.
It ... |
21 March 2012
08:25 GMT |
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Earlier today, Asus started rolling out a new firmware update for the original Transformer tablet, the TF101, which is supposed to fix the issues experienced by many users after the Android 4.0 update.This latest update bumps the tablet’s software to v9.2.1.17-20120312 and has already reached some users in the ... |
19 March 2012
22:01 GMT |
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More than three months after being spotted for the first time, Asus’ Eee PC 1025 Flare series notebooks have finally been made official by the Taiwanese company, which has already started shipping them to various retailers around the world.
Asus’ Eee PC 1025C series actually comprises two netbook models,... |
19 March 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Laptops don't normally run anything besides Windows or Linux, but that didn't stop the Android x86 project from living up to its namesake.
PC makers may not be all that interested in releasing laptops loaded with the Android operating system, but some people are still very interested in this.
In fact, th... |
19 March 2012
05:23 GMT |
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Even though Nvidia hasn’t yet made the GeForce GTX 680 official, an US-based online retailer jumped the gun and added to its website an upcoming GK104 Kepler graphics card built by Asus, which is available for pre-order for $566.75 (roughly 430 EUR). The card listed by Bottom Line Telecommunications uses the P... |
19 March 2012
04:03 GMT |
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ASUS is preparing to start seriously offering cloud services, even if it begins with a private cloud instead of a public one.
Said private cloud, according to Digitimes, will serve the National Taiwan University (NTU) and will be put to use this month, March 2012.
A Taiwan-based bank has also reportedly placed so... |
15 March 2012
10:41 GMT |
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It's the 13th day of spring, or at least that's what the calendar tells us, but we haven't got any bad news for you; instead of ill omens, we're delivering another nice BIOS listing for today.
The highlight for now is the new BIOS developed by Asus for the boards in their P8H61 series. All the mo... |
13 March 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Uncovered just yesterday, Asus’ UX32Vd Ultrabook with Intel Ivy Bridge processors and Nvidia GeForce discrete graphics has just been made available for pre-order by an European online retailer that listed the Zenbook at 1,149 EUR ($1,506 USD).This is a great deal more than the $1,100 (about 836 EUR) price that ... |
13 March 2012
10:01 GMT |
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It looks like ASUS is planning more for the ultrabook market than the replacement of soon-to-be-outdated models, or so the murmurs on the Internet say.
Going by what The Verge has reported, there are two all-new Zenbooks on the way, though it is unclear when the official launch will be.
On the other hand, t... |
13 March 2012
05:49 GMT |
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We spotted the Eee PC 1025C netbook back in January (2012), when the first info about ASUS's Cedar Trail netbook cropped up on the Internet. Now, though, the item is finally up for sale, not just pre-order. The price is of $299, which translates into 227 Euro, give or take. That sum of money will get you a... |
13 March 2012
05:18 GMT |
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We don't know when ASUS will release the ultrabooks equipped with Intel's new central processing units, but everything else about them somehow made it to the net.
The folks at The Verge scraped together the relevant details pertaining to the Zenbook UX31A and UX21A.
These two are powered by the Ivy Bridg... |
12 March 2012
11:53 GMT |
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Intel Cedar Trail powered netbooks are starting to become available in retail, one of the first such models to reach Europe being the Asus Eee PC R052CE, which has just been listed by Amazon.de. The Asus netbook is available in 11 different colors, including the red and blue models pictured in this article, with pri... |
12 March 2012
09:06 GMT |
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Looks like ASUS wants to win Google's confidence in order to more easily develop and produce its Android tablets.According to Digitimes, the two are collaborating on a co-branded tablet, one with a screen size of 7 inches.Its price will be of around $199 - $249 (151.83 Euro to 189.98 Euro) and the ETA (estimated... |
10 March 2012
07:06 GMT |
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CeBIT is still underway in Hannover, Germany, and ASUS has various things to show there, such as the unusual PA248Q monitor.
It isn't some special resolution, brightness or other display parameter that makes this thing stand apart from all of the others of its type.
Granted, the IPS panel does give it better... |
9 March 2012
09:02 GMT |
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Asus unveiled its smartphone/tablet combo last year in May, but decided to delay the device until 2012. Last week, Asus Padfone was showcased for the first time at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Aside from its tablet and phone pieces, the combo now contains a keyboard docking station and a stylus headset, w... |
9 March 2012
08:14 GMT |
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Mountain View-based Internet giant Google is expected to release a long rumored tablet PC in the popular Nexus lineup as soon as May, some of the latest reports around the web suggest.
Apparently, the new device will arrive from Asus, and will be a 7-inch co-branded tablet PC capable of competing with Amazon'... |
9 March 2012
03:21 GMT |
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Shortly after the introduction of Intel’s LGA 2011 Xeon E5 processor family, Asus has made the company’s Z9PE-D8 WS motherboard for dual-socket Sandy Bridge-EP high-end workstations official .
As some of you may remember, the board was unveiled in January of this year, during the CES 2012 fair, and comes... |
8 March 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Asus started to roll out a new firmware update for the Transformer Prime tablet that bumps the software to version 9.4.2.15.In typical Asus fashion, the update isn’t accompanied by any change log, so we don’t know what new features or fixes were introduced in this latest firmware.We’re keeping our f... |
7 March 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Over the years, we have become accustomed to Asus’ high-performance motherboard designs, but few of them were more outrageous than the P8Z77-I Deluxe mini-ITX LGA 1155 board that the company recently showcased during the CeBIT 2012 fair.
Built around Intel’s Z77 chipset, the most prominent feature of the P8Z7... |
6 March 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Besides the Maximus V Gene that we presented a little bit earlier today, Asus’ Intel Z77 ROG motherboard series also includes the ATX-sized Maximus V Formula that was recently detailed during a preview event held by the company. The introduction of the Maximus V Formula marks the return of water cooling to the... |
6 March 2012
15:31 GMT |
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There’s been much talk lately on Google’s plans for this year. It looks like the search giant is ready to enter the hardware business with its own branded device, the so-called “Nexus Tablet.”
Moreover, the company also plans to release the next version of Android, dubbed Jelly Bean, sometime... |
6 March 2012
09:20 GMT |
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Some photos of a new ASUS motherboard have made their way to the Internet, alongside most relevant information on it, except pricing and availability, alas.
The mainboard in question, according to the report on VR-Zone, is called Sabertooh Z77 and is part of the TUF line.
The overall design is not that strange in... |
6 March 2012
07:32 GMT |
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Asus prepares to add another motherboard to its Republic of Gamers (ROG) product line for hardcore gamers, the Maximus V Gene LGA 1155 board that is based on Intel’s upcoming Z77 Express chipset designed for the chip maker’s Ivy Bridge processors.
Just as it is the case with all the other Republic of Gam... |
6 March 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Back in late February, we saw that the original ASUS Eee Pad Transformer had begun to receive the over-the-air upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Not all was well, though, as some users just did not seem to get their update. To circumvent this perceived problem, ASUS has now made it possible to manually d... |
6 March 2012
04:03 GMT |
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Of the IT companies still actively supporting the netbook market, ASUS is one of the most outspoken and it even has a new such device up for pre-order. The company's Eee PC X101CH is, like mostly every netbook nowadays, a product powered by Intel's Cedar Trail CPU line. The chip used in this particular... |
6 March 2012
03:18 GMT |
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Asus Republic of Gamers, aka ROG, motherboard range is preparing to welcome three new members in its ranks, which will make up the Maximus V series. This was unveiled just recently, when TechPowerUp managed to get a hold of a cropped image of a motherboard PCB which was clearly marked as the Maximus V. Needless to ... |
6 March 2012
02:42 GMT |
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ASUS has announced a new wireless router, one that has two processors and support for just as many wireless bands.
The 2.4 GHz and the 5 GHz bands are both supported, and three antennas can transfer data at 300 Mbps on each.
That leads to 600 Mbps total, which is none too shabby.
In other words, it is more than fa... |
5 March 2012
09:58 GMT |
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Asus announced the Padfone last year at the Mobile Word Congress (MWC), but the company stated that the tablet/phone combo would be officially introduced this year. True to its promise, the company officially announced the Padfone last week at the MWC 2012 in Barcelona. Aside from the tablet and phone forming the ... |
5 March 2012
03:34 GMT |
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Shortly after AMD’s announcements of the Radeon HD 7950 and HD 7970 graphics cards, Asus has introduced two new solutions based on these GPUs that feature the company’s proprietary DirectCU II design in order to work at higher than stock frequencies.
This design relies on a beefy dual-slot cooler that co... |
5 March 2012
03:15 GMT |
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Since it doesn't seem to believe netbooks are quite over and done with yet, ASUS made the Eee PC 1025C-MU17-BK and 1025C-MU17-WT. That's right, as the links on their names clearly show, they are already listed online, on Amazon no less. The price is $299.99 (227 Euro) and the color options are black and... |
3 March 2012
05:53 GMT |
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Rumors on the upcoming Android 5.0 operating system have already started to surface in the wild, though the Ice Cream Sandwich adoption is still worryingly low. Hopefully, Google will announce the next iteration of its mobile platform at the right time, but there's no telling which devices the company will targe... |
3 March 2012
04:02 GMT |
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Asus is revamping a bit the line of Eee PC netbooks; while using the new "flare" design, the new netbooks also receive new CPUs. We're talking about the N2600 chip dubbed Cedar Trail, replacing the Atom N455 and N570 processors. The 32nm processor runs at 1.6 GHz and sports a newer, unified architecture that ma... |
2 March 2012
10:32 GMT |
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With one month to go until the official release of the Intel 7-series chipset family, a Chinese online store has listed Asus’ upcoming P8Z77-V Deluxe motherboard for Ivy Bridge processors with pricing being set at 2,499 RMB ($396 US).
The motherboard is based on Intel’s Z77 chipset, which is the most adv... |
2 March 2012
03:30 GMT |
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Besides releasing a new series of Cedar Trail netbook utilizing the company’s new so-called “flare” design, Asus also updated some of its previous models to feature Intel’s 32nm Atom processors, including the company’s popular Eee PC 1011PX.
The new model is now called the 1011CX and th... |
1 March 2012
20:51 GMT |
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Unveiled just a few days earlier in Barcelona, Spain during the 2012 edition of the Mobile World Congress, Asus’ Transformer Pad TF300T Android tablet has just visited the FCC offices in order to get approval for its WiFi and Bluetooth capabilities. According to Wireless Goodness, the 300 Series Transformer Pa... |
1 March 2012
16:11 GMT |
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We spoke about the ASUS transformer Pad Infinity twice over the past few days, when ASUS included it in its MWC 2012 conference and, earlier, when the formal press release came out, along with the full specs. Now, we are able to show you the real life look of this slate whose screen has a resolution of 1,920 x 1,20... |
29 February 2012
02:26 GMT |
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We wrote at length about the ASUS Padfone not long ago and, as promised, here is our hands-on experience with it. The Padfone seems to be ASUS' unusual product right now, with the Transformer Pads playing the more “generic” role. Of course, one of them has a resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 pixels, so... |
27 February 2012
09:57 GMT |
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The ASUS Padfone is essentially what its name implies, a phone-tablet hybrid, but ASUS went for a fairly unusual choice of design elements in its making. The company has, in a way, mimicked Motorola's treatment of the “phone in tablet clothing” idea, the one that spawned the Lapdock. While the Pa... |
27 February 2012
09:37 GMT |
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We've caught a glimpse of that beast that ASUS outfitted with a 1,920 x 1,200 IPS display and now, we're taking a close look at the other Transformer Pad that the company has built. The Transformer Pad 300 Series currently has a single member, but we already know that more pads are coming. That said, th... |
27 February 2012
08:58 GMT |
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