14 DAY TRIAL // ASUS is a well-known motherboard manufacturer. It’s likely the biggest motherboard manufacturer in the world, but the company now appears to be taking the mobile world by storm. During this year’s Computex show, the company is presenting its own TransformerBook concept.
Although the tradition is to write it in a single word, just like UltraBook, netbook, nettop and notebook, maybe we should take a break from that and just write it Transformer Book.
As we already said, ASUS is taking the mobile world by storm and this is not a single blow like the first and second Transformers were. This seems to be a full-blown attack.
ASUS’ ZenBooks seem to be gunning for Apple’s MacBook Air.
The Dual-Screen wonder is a tough blow targeting Lenovo’s Yoga tablet.
Therefore, the Transformer Book seems to be an overall bomb to settle the score with any other mobile computer maker, as it’s (yet again) something unique to ASUS.
ASUS’ Transformer Book is an ultra-portable mobile PC that incorporates a powerful Intel i7 processor, a high quality FullHD screen and SDD plus HDD storage options.
The Core i7 CPUs are certainly members of Intel ULV family of low power consuming processors.
What’s even more impressive is the fact that the Taiwanese manufacturer is offering discrete graphics processing units instead of the HD4000 iGPUs.
The systems will come with USB 3.0 connectivity and a default 4 GB or RAM and two HD cameras. The one on the back will have a 5 MP resolution, while the one on the front usually used for video calls, will be just “HD.”
The battery life has not been made public yet, but we certainly hope that ASUS will provide batteries in both, the tablet and the keyboard docking pad.
We’d be happy with 7 hours of movie playing on any of the 11.6”, 13” or 14” versions, although we’d prefer the 14” one.
