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…
While we’ve long since reached a point in smartphones where some phones are more powerful than laptops, there’s no shortage of new and powerful high-end phones rolling out. And now another gaming smartphones is about to hit the market as Asus gaming phone called ROG Phone will be released on October 29 for $899: https://www.amazon.com/ROG-Phone-Gaming-Smartphone-ZS600KL Asus ROG Phone is a 6-inch Android gaming phone with a 2160 x 1080 resolution … more…
If you are in the market for a laptop that will stay fresh for a while, the new Asus Zenbook Pro (UX550GE-XB71T) has just been released, with very high-end specs ranging from a 4K screen to the very fast 8th gen. Intel Core i7 “Coffee Lake” hexa-core 8750H processor at 2.2 GHz – 4.8 GHz: amazon.com/UX550GE-XB71T-Zenbook-Laptop-i7-8750HK-GTX1050Ti/ This is a Windows 10 laptop that achieves Geekbench 4 multi-core scores of over … more…
The newest Asus Transformer Mini T103 is kind of an important 2-in-1 tablet, since it’s the latest generation model of the original T100 model that popularized the 10-inch Windows 2-in-1 category and that other tablet brands started to modulate. It’s now listed in stores in the US too, though it hasn’t ben released yet: https://www.amazon.com/Transformer-T103HA-D4-GR-Touchscreen-Quad-Core-keyboard The Asus Transformer Mini T103HA / Asus Transformer Mini T103HAF was unveiled at the COMPUTEX … more…
The second Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 powered Windows device to be launched hit the stores today, after Asus NovaGo popped up on Amazon ahead of launch. The actual release date is somewhere in May in the US: https://www.amazon.com/TP370QL The first 2-in-1 tablet to be launched with Windows on ARM was the HP Envy x2. Asus NovaGo is a convertible with revolving screen, meaning that it features a touchscreen, and it can … more…
The Asus Transformer Mini T103HAF was announced several months ago, and it was officially released in some European in countries on December 11, when Asus announced that this eSIM 2-in-1 tablet was launched onto the European market in partnership with the cellular carrier Transatel. But now it will soon become available internationally too, with a May 21 shipping date: https://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_1816009.html When it launched in France, this 4G LTE tablet came … more…
Asus announced their newest multi-hub mesh Wi-Fi system at CES on January 8th this year, and now the Asus Lyra Trio are finally ready for launch on May 1: https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Lyra-Trio-Home-System/dp/B07C4CM65G/ This includes 3 of these Wi-Fi range extenders that also has support for Amazon Alexa, so that not only will users with very large homes or some tricky corners of the home also get great Wi-Fi cover, but Alexa can … more…
Do you find the new Intel Core i9 powered Asus ROG G703 looking a little too much like a gaming laptop, and also being too pricey for normal use? I’d agree, and I honestly don’t know if the radical gaming laptop designs hurt high-end laptop sales or not. Fortunately there are alternatives here, and one of the brand new 8th gen. Intel Core “Coffee Lake” powerhouses coming out, is the … more…