Is it a notebook? Is it a tablet? Is it a... desktop PC? No, it's the Asus Transformer Book Trio, a device taking the 2-in-1 concept even further as an 11.6-inch Android tablet one can turn into a Windows 8 ultrabook via dock.
Similarities to Asus' myriad Transfomer devices are somewhat skin deep-- the device carries separate processors well as different OS installations inside the tablet and dock segments.
Thus, the Android-powered 11.6-inch 1080p display carries a 2GHz Atom Z2580 CPU, 2GB RAM, 64GB SSD and 19WHr batery, while the keyboard dock makes a standard Windows 8 ultrabook with a Haswell CPU, 1TB storage, an unspecified amount of RAM and 33WHr battery.
Switching between operating systems involves either pressing a button or undocking the display, and Asus insists users can synchronise data between Android/Windows 8 modes.
The Transformer Book Trio is not the only Asus launch at Computex 2013-- the company also reveals the Transformer Pad Infinity (an Nvidia Tegra 4-powered tablet with a 2560x1600 resolution display), 6-inch Fonepad Note FHD phablet, 7-inch MeMo Pad HD 7 budget tablet (with a $150 price tag!) and the RT-AC680U AC1900 router.
"We seek to perfect the balance between engineering and humanity, where every intricate detail echoes our needs for both emotion and function," ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih says. "This is the ASUS way of design thinking, where every idea starts with people and we turn our imagination into a myriad of revolutionary innovations." Yes.
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