Now it's time for the in-depth review of the first laptop to take full advantage of Vista's SideShow feature: ASUS's W5fe SideShow Notebook.
Though they will be officially announced at ASUS's press conference tomorrow we got some time to play around with the new aluminum netbooks, and they sure beat any of the plastic Eee PCs we've been groping for the past few years.
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In my harsh tablet battery test, where I play a constant loop of video with the screen set to 75 % brightness and Wi-Fi on to retrieve email in the background, I got almost exactly five hours, which is Asus's official battery life estimate.
Since the official launch at MWC, ASUS has been mum on how many hours its upcoming PadFone can stay on the treadmill for, but earlier today, we spotted an official promotional video -- which has since been removed from ASUS's YouTube channel -- that mentioned 16 hours of battery for the phone itself, 63 for tablet mode and 102 for laptop mode.
ENGADGET: ASUS PadFone's real world battery life: 14.1 hours of 3G browsing in laptop mode (video)
The ASUS Transformer's nabbing a maintenance release known as 8.6.5.18.
"ASUS VariDrive's sleek design and unique connectivity options makes it ideal for the multi-media savvy users, " said John Cummins, VP of Sales and Marketing for DisplayLink.
Dell's Latitude 10, the ASUS Tablet 810, Acer's Iconia W510 and W700, Lenovo's ThinkPad 2, the HP Envy x2 and Samsung's Series 5 were all there.
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It's only been a few weeks since ASUS went official with it's Tegra 3-packing Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet.
We've already mentioned that said transition has been sped up from two seconds to just one, but better yet, ASUS claims it's also done some work to ensure that the UK's top 100 apps work correctly with Dynamic Display.
ENGADGET: ASUS PadFone 2 review: two times is a charm for this phone-in-tablet combo
If your laptop spends more time spinning Netflix hits from yesteryear than yomping around campus, you'll probably love these new offerings from ASUS. It's launching the 15.6-inch N55SF and 17.3-inch N75SF laptops -- depending on budget, you can select an Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 chip and a variety of displays that go up to 1920 x 1080 on the high-end units.
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After years of entrusting its U.S. carrier relationships to Garmin, Asus has also begun calling on U.S. operators.
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To bolster the laptop's multimedia cred, however, ASUS includes an external SonicMaster subwoofer in the UX51Vz's box.
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Of all the companies challenging Apple's lead, ASUS has been presenting the most compelling reasons to buy a PC instead.
It's sort of ASUS' own take on Google Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive.
ENGADGET: ASUS PadFone 2 review: two times is a charm for this phone-in-tablet combo
Most current models, including Samsung's NC10, much of the Asus Eee range, the MSI Wind and the Acer Aspire One, use Intel's Atom as their central processor.
They currently offer the world's first Thunderbolt enabled RAID storage solutions and have previously worked with ASUS to develop a diversified portfolio to meet customer's requirements.
ENGADGET: ASUS and MSI launch Thunderbolt motherboards, tie for first place
"Elgato is delighted to work with ASUS to bring the world's first portable Thunderbolt drive to Windows, " says Markus Fest, Elgato's CEO.
ENGADGET: ASUS and MSI launch Thunderbolt motherboards, tie for first place
If ASUS is keeping two OS's as per the AiO prototype, that processor caters for only one Microsoft product -- Windows RT.
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In this week's Distro we're bringing you a trio of reviews, including Dana Wollman's take on the ASUS TAICHI 21, an Ultrabook with some interesting design attributes.
It's similar to other gadgets you've seen, like the HTC One X, but it's new for an ASUS product, and we have to say we enjoy it.
Asus manufactures phones for U.S. global positioning system provider Garmin.
Keep in mind that we've already seen this Frame Zero concept pictured above from Fujitsu and Acer's arch-rival ASUS has been showing off its dual-display laptop prototype with touchscreen keyboard for months.
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The company announced that the SanDisk U100 SSD is being used by ASUS in the ASUS Transformer Book, the world's first notebook with a detachable tablet.
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Though ASUS is careful to say it's considering other devices, it's still not promising to upgrade the original Eee Pad Transformer or Eee Pad Slider.
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In an industry first, ASUS will also bundle the world's most accurate 3-D motion-control technology into new high-end notebooks and premium All-in-One (AiO) PCs later this year.
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In the back corner of ASUS' brightly lit Computex booth there's a simulated gamer's lair, complete with dim LED lighting, the sound of frequent gun fire and a small handful of nondescript gaming notebooks.
The tiny machine joins Dell's Inspiron Mini 9, the Asus Eee PC 900, the HP Mini-Note 2133 and the Intel Classmate PC among the new class of machines offering cramped keyboards, dinky screens and relatively pokey processors.
We're certain that it's only a matter of time before ASUS issues a fix through an OTA update.
ENGADGET: ASUS PadFone 2 review: two times is a charm for this phone-in-tablet combo
At the time, Asus was a relative unknown in the U.S. cellphone market though its PCs, particularly its Eee PC netbooks, were popular among Americans, explains Lin.
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 GPU will be available in limited quantities starting May 3, 2012, with wider availability by May 7, 2012 from NVIDIA's add-in card partners, including ASUS, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Inno3D, MSI, Palit and Zotac.
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