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Asus Transformer Trio
By Anca Gagiuc on Jun 11, 2013 in Technology
Asus is at it again. Imagination and innovation are once more on display with the newly revealed Transformer Book Trio. A mind-blowing gadget, it’s a slick notebook, a dockable tablet and a veritable desktop PC, all in one. The world’s first three-in-one mobile device is designed to offer extreme flexibility, encompassing work, play, and social interaction.
The Asus design shows the desire of technology developers to simplify today’s digital lifestyle and the multi-device headaches that come with it. When traveling for business, we’ve all looked into our bag and probably wondered whether it was really necessary to bring along the laptop, the tablet, the smartphone, and maybe even a standalone camera, on a four-day business trip. In Asus’ case, the streamlining effort started with transforming expectations for an average notebook. The result of the effort is a triple-faced gadget with dual operating systems, running off a pair of processors and double battery power.
When the Trio tablet is docked, it becomes a notebook and can switch between Windows 8 and Android Jelly Bean through a physical hotkey, a similar feature found on the Transformer AiO.. This gives the user the ability to access any of the over 700,000 apps in Google Play and over 50,000 apps in Windows Store. The transition between the two modes occurs smoothly allowing users to sync data and even to continue surfing the same webpage they were on before moving from notebook to tablet mode. The hotkey will not work if the tablet is unlatched from the keyboard dock, in that case it will only run the Android OS.
A 4th generation Core i7-4500U, a bigger 750GB of hard drive space, and a 33Wh cell battery are placed under its hood. The PC station serves as a charger for extended battery life; the Trio is said to be capable of 15 hours of battery life, probably with most of the compute time spent in tablet mode. Micro HDMI, 2 x 3.0 USBs (1 on each side), and a Thunderbolt port border the dock.
The tablet is the laptop’s 11.6-inch screen – a 16:9 aspect ratio IPS with Full HD 1,920 x 1,080 resolution that runs off a 2.0GHz Intel Atom Z2580 processor. It adds to the existing storage up to 64GB, and has its own battery of 19Wh.
Other technical specifications have not been made public, and prices have not been announced for any of Asus’ newly released devices. Rumor has it that the Transformer Book Trio will be made available to the public sometime in Q3 of this year. By then, there is plenty of time to decide if you’re satisfied with the multitude of devices you currently have at home, or if it’s high time you rid of them for the complex simplicity of the Transformer Trio.
