Asus popularized the tinny detachable laptop , but they ’ve always been lumpy short things . Not the Transformer Book Chi . Asus claim the novel 10.1 - inch T100 Chi is the thinnest Windows tablet ever made . And the 12.5 - inch T300 Chi — combined with its keyboard — is now thinner than a MacBook Air .
sure as shooting , thin is n’t everything , and even the 7.2 millimeter thick T100 Chi probably wo n’t quite reach the same threshold of portabilityas Apple ’s 6.1mm - slurred iPad Air 2 . Still , I ’m sure there are folks out there hankering for an extremist - sparse Windows tablet with a sartor - made keyboard at any rate .
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And those people ( you ? ) will in reality have three selection this prison term around : the T90 , the T100 , or the T300 . The $ 300 T90 and $ 400 T100 are both budget machines with musculus quadriceps femoris - core Intel AtomBay Trailprocessors and either 32 GB or 64 GB of solid state repositing , but the T100 features a 10.1 - in , 1080p IPS sieve compared to the smaller , lower - res 8.9 - inch , 1280 x 800 one you ’ll retrieve on the T90 . The T90 does weigh a little less , though .
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If you ’re look for something with processing superpower and cover veridical estate closer to a stock laptop computer , the T300 Chi get going at $ 700 for a 12.5 - inch 1080p screen , or $ 800 for a 2560 x 1440 screen , power by anIntel Core M processorin a fanless design with a 128 GB SSD . It also features a new atomic number 60 magnetic flexible joint to confiscate the projection screen .
alas , none of the motorcar have room for a full size USB port , using a miniature USB 3.0 socket instead to help you transpose filing cabinet . Asus is also anticipate “ virtually all - twenty-four hours barrage life ” from the fresh motorcar .
Asus says we should expect the Transformer Book Chi to start hit shelf in February .
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