Shortly before the release of Windows 8, which will be held on October 26 this year, ASUS has started taking pre-orders for a number of its products under the Linux operating system, including such unusual as a hybrid tablet and laptop ASUS Taichi and tablet based on ARM platforms and Windows RT – VivoTab RT, formerly known as the Tablet 600. It should be noted that most new products were shown at the exhibition COMPUTEX 2012 in June.
Pre-orders for the device opened their cost. Hybrid notebook and tablet, ASUS Taichi, costs $ 1,300. For this money, the company offers a machine with 4 GB of RAM, 128-GB SSD, and an Intel Core i5 third-generation 1.7 GHz. Recall that this model ASUS Taichi also has two 11.6-inches display with Full HD resolution and IPS-matrix. For Version of the processor Core i7 1.9 GHz and 256-gigabyte SSD will cost $ 300 more expensive.
ASUS VivoBook X202 attracts with a small amount. In this 11.6-inch laptop equipped with a touch screen and has a very good performance: 1.8 GHz Intel Core i3, 4 GB of RAM, hard disk capacity of 500 GB. The recommended price of a compact ASUS VivoBook X202 laptop is $ 600.
The 11.6-inch tablet VivoTab RT will be sold for $ 600, but not included keyboard dock. For accessory will have to pay another $ 200. The price is not small, but the dock has its own battery, increasing the autonomy of the tablet in half. VivoTab RT is not impressive for its characteristics: screen resolution – 1366×768 pixels, IPS, 32 GB of flash memory and SoC NVIDIA Tegra 3.
The sale of all these ASUS Taichi, touch Vivobook X202 laptop and VivoTab RT tablet products will be on October 26, simultaneously with the launch of Windows 8.
