Asus has an interesting new laptop category going, where they’re cramming lots of technology into very cheap Windows 10 laptops. The first one out is the 14-inch Windows 10 notebook Asus Laptop E410MA, that’ll launch on August 31st for just $249: https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Display-Processor-NumberPad-L410MA-DB02/dp/B08D92T45H/ Some of us who work in the computer industry used to discuss and theorize what disruptions that would take place if Amazon were to launch a series of … more…
Two hot Windows 10 gaming laptops are now taking orders, with these being the Asus TUF Gaming A17 and Asus TUF Gaming A15. The 15.6-inch laptop has launched already, while the 17.3-inch laptop will launch on April 10, starting from $999. Both of these new Windows 10 gaming laptops were unveiled at CES 2020, and caught the attention with the 4.2 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 4800H processor and acceptable price … more…
The gaming division of Asus known as ROG announced the hot new portable gaming monitor ROG Strix XG17AHPE right at the end of January, and now it has just gone up for pre-order for $499. The Asus ROG Strix XG17AHPE release date is set to February 24: https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-XG17AHPE-Portable-Adaptive-Sync-Micro-HDMI/ So naturally, with a price like that from a 17.3-inch portable display, you kind of expect a lot. But keep in mind … more…
The most eager gamers may know that the beast of a tablet Asus ROG Mothership GZ700 is in stores in the US now, and that it’s launching with an even more powerful processor than specified during its January unveiling, as it now ships with Intel Core i9-9980HK: https://www.amazon.com/Mothership-GZ700GX-XB98K-Essential-i9-9980HK-Windows/ This means that the Asus ROG Mothership GZ700 benchmark scores top out at over 35000 in Geekbench 4. In other words, this … more…
Asus unveiled the outstanding new Asus ZenBook 15 (2019) UX534FT at Computex 19 on May 27th, and now this curious Windows laptop is going to get released on July 22nd, for $1,399: https://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Slim-NanoEdge-Innovative-Screenpad-UX534FT-DB77/dp/B07VF8SK6M/ Asus ZenBook 15 UX534 features the new ScreenPad 2.0 that turns the trackpad into a 5.65-inch 2160 x 1080 resolution touchscreen trackpad that even supports handwriting and offers lots of new features to the keyboard as if … more…
The shock effect after Asus announced its first ZenBook with a screen in the touchpad/trackpad may have settled, but Asus created quite the reaction today when they went even further in this field with the successors that are said to launch in August. Asus unveiled both a new ZenBook Duo and a ZenBook Pro Duo, both of which features a secondary screen. The Asus ZenBook Pro Duo (UX581) will probably … more…
Asus has had a steady commitment to its portable monitors for many years now, and at COMPUTEX 2019 today they announced the latest development in this category with the Asus ZenScreen Touch. So not only is it a 15.6-inch portable monitor you can use with tablets, smartphones, laptops, and some other devices, but this is now also a touchscreen with its own built-in 7800 mAh battery too. Asus ZenScreen Touch … more…
The strategy from Asus this year is to go all in on gaming, so we can expect a steady stream of very powerful Windows laptops from Asus in 2019, such as the newest Asus ROG Strix Scar III that will release on May 17th: https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-GeForce-i7-9750H-Windows-G531GW And it’s not just the CPU and GPU that’s speedy either. Even the display can brag of a very impressive 240 Hz refresh rate. And … more…
Here’s something of an interesting alternative on the Windows 10 laptop front. The brand new Asus VivoBook F512 with the quad-core AMD R5-3500U processor: It will be released on May 20, and the Asus VivoBook F512 will cost just 549, which is interesting in itself. Because this is a 15.6-inch laptop with 8GB of DDR4 RAM, hybrid storage with 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD storage. The 15.6-inch screen has Full … more…
The new 13.9-inch Windows 10 Pro notebook Asus ZenBook S13 will be released 1 1/2 weeks from now on April 15 starting at $1399: https://www.amazon.com/ZenBook-i7-8565U-GeForce-Windows-UX392FN-XS71/ Asus ZenBook S13 (UX392) was announced at the CES on January 7 as an ultra-thin laptop with just 12.9mm of thickness. So it really is thin. But it still packs power in the form of Intel Core i7-8565U processor, Nvidia GeForce MX150 GPU, 8GB LPDDR3 … more…
Asus announced the new Asus ZenBook 14 (UX431) 2019 model at CES on January 7 last month, and now it has landed in stores , though it doesn’t seem to launch before March: https://www.amazon.com/ZenBook-NanoEdge-i7-8565U-Numberpad-UX431FA Asus ZenBook 14 (UX431) is this 14-inch Windows 10 Pro laptop with the peculiar double function touchpad, which features both a touchpad and a numberpad with a fingerprint reader. This numberpad is optional though. It also … more…
Asus will release that large 17.3-inch 2-in-1 tablet Asus ROG Mothership GZ700 in a couple of months. But before then Asus will release a very powerful new laptop with the upcoming launch of the Asus ROG Zephyrus S GX701 on February 20th: https://www.amazon.com/Zephyrus-Pantone-Validated-GeForce-i7-8750H/ The Asus ROG Zephyrus S GX701 is a 17.3-inch Windows 10 Pro gaming laptop, though its design is not as gaming radical as many of the laptops … more…
Some of this weeks benchmarks have set off a lot of rumors and speculations while people have trying to decipher what devices are what. The benchmarks points to unannounced Chrome OS tablets and other Chrome OS devices, but at this point they are difficult to ascribe to specific manufacturers and possible model lines. About Chromebooks belives the Google Rammus with the Shyvana motherboard could be a Pixel Slate alternative from … more…
If you haven’t got yourself a tablet computer yet because you’ve been holding out for a 17.3-inch Windows tablet with 64GB of DDR4 RAM, then you are in luck now, as Asus announced the beast of a gaming tablet today called ROG Mothership GZ700, due for launch in Q2 2019. And with a Intel Core i9-8950HK processor, this is by far the world’s most powerful tablet. And yes, it does … more…
The first Asus Chromebook tablet was announced today by the name of Asus Chromebook Tablet CT100. I’ve been told this 9.7-inch Chrome OS tablet will be released in April 2019 in the US. The price of Asus Chromebook Tablet CT100 will be $329 at launch: https://www.amazon.com/Chromebook-Touchscreen-Hexa-core-Military-Spec-CT100PA-YS02T/dp/B07QHFRV3M/ Asus Chromebook Tablet CT100 may sound familiar in name to the T100 Transformer series of 10.1-inch 2-in-1 Windows tablets, but the Asus Chromebook Tablet … more…