All Entries Tagged With: "asus"
Asus U56E – Review
Asus claims that the U56E is a high-performance, maximum battery-life machine which should equip buyers for the office, all for $800. It runs on an i5-2430M CPU with 4GB RAM and a 500GB hard drive for storage. Yet machines with similar component lists are available. For direct comparison we suggest the Toshiba Satellite R850. The [...]
TF300T – new Asus Prime?
Walks like Prime talk like Prime, this new TF300T notebook by Asus may be the new follow up to the Transformer Prime. TF300T as seen above has plastic chassis, which could mean a cheaper offering by Asus. Model TF700 of Asus Transformer Prime was just upgraded with a higher resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. [...]
Asus Lamborghini VX7 – Review
The 15.6″ Asus Lamborghini VX7 targets anyone with a fondness for Lamborghinis, famed for their legendary acceleration and top speed. This test unit wielded a quad-core i7 processor, 8GB RAM and a dedicated 3GB graphics card, and can be yours for $2500. Lamborghinis are famously brash, and the shell is made from highly reflective black [...]
Asus B23E – Preview
Asus haas launched the B23E , a 12.5-inch notebook aimed at the business user. At CES 2012 earlier this month Asus updated its budget line of Eee PC netbooks and notebooks; all the focus on was on its various Transformer slates – whether the upgraded screen of the quad-core Transformer Prime, the ICS update to [...]
Asus Cedar Trail Netbooks – Preview
Asus will release Intel Atom Cedar Trail netbooks in February. The Asus Eee PC1025C will feature a 1.6GHz Atom N2600 CPU and will sell for $299, while anyone with an ounce of common sense will stump up the extra 20 bucks for a 1.86GHz Atom N2800 CPU for $319. That premium model is Asus Eee [...]
Asus Transformer Prime – Review
The newcomer to the ultrabook category is the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime. The Transformer Prime is available in either ‘amethyst gray’ or ‘champagne gold’. Design-wise the Prime is angular, tapering down a pretty sharp edge. At 0.33 inches thick it’s fractionally thinner than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and weighing just 586g, also slightly [...]
Motorola Xyboard 8.2 – Review
The new kid on the block might be Ice Cream Sandwich, but Honeycomb tablets will continue to appear for a while yet. Motorola was an Android Honeycomb pioneer, way, way back at the start of 2011 with the Xoom, and Motorola have now launched a successor in the form of the Xybpard, produced to an [...]
New Intel Cedar Trail N2600 processor
We recently reported on Asus’s plans for a new netbook featuring Intel’s new Atom N2600 Cedar Trail processor, built on a 32 nm technology. Netbooknews offers a quick comparison of the new Intel chip against the N570 and AMD C50 CPUs, the most obvious competitors to the low-voltage N2600. Official specs for the N2600 have [...]
Prime not available
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime has become available for pre-order at Amazon while back. We’re getting reports that some preorders are getting returned and refunded. Check out thus email: There are some speculations that Asus controls the output of Prime tablets this Christmas season. The reason stated by Amazon is “lack of availability from suppliers”. [...]
Quadcore Lenovo and Acer Tablets On Way
Even though current reports of the iPad 2 sales don’t suggest it, the iPad 2 is rapidly being overtaken in terms of hardware – quad-core processors are starting to appear, for instance the Asus Transformer Prime TF201 Tablet with 32GB Memory in Champagne color is now available for pre-order at Best Buy for $499 with [...]
