PC makers are expected to launch plenty of new laptops, tablets, and hybrid devices featuring Intel Haswell processors at the Computex trade show in Taiwan in June. But some Haswell-powered devices are starting to show up a bit early.
The Asus VivoBook V551 is an ultrabook with a 15.6 inch display and an Intel Core i7-4500U Haswell chip and an NVIDIA graphics card. It’s expected to sell for around $1000, and several retailers are already taking orders.
Notebook Italia reports that in Europe the same laptop is expected to be called the VivoBook S551.Detailed specs include NVIDA GeForce GT740M graphics, 8GB of RAM, a 1TB hard drive, and 24GB solid state cache disk. 90-OA001B2300Q Battery The notebook measures just 0.83 inches thick, but it packs a DVD burner, as well as WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI, 3 USB ports (including 1 USB 3.0 port), and a 65 Whr battery.
It also features a touchscreen display. Unfortunately, it’s a 1366 x 768 pixel screen, which seems kind of out-of-step with what’s otherwise a pretty high-end laptop.
While the Asus VivoBook V551 is a reasonably thin laptop, it’s not particularly light. It weighs about 5.3 pounds, which isn’t surprising given the large screen, disc drive, and other components.Laptops or tablets with built-in 802.11ac Wi-Fi are scarce, but if you have a desktop, A42-K93 Battery it's now quite easy to add the full speed of this new Wi-Fi standard to it, thanks to the PCE-AC66 Dual-Band Wireless-AC1750 Adapter add-on adapter from Asus.
This is a PCIe add-on card, similar to a video card, but it uses an x1 PCIe slot, which is available in most desktop computers. You can get this card now for around $90. It's not exactly cheap, but I find it quite worth the investment for what it has to offer.
The PCE-AC66 is currently the only adapter on the market that supports the three-stream 802.11ac standard. All other adapters, especially those that connect to a computer via USB, such as the Trendnet TEW-805UB, support the dual-stream setup at most. Like all existing 802.11ac adapters,Asus A42-G55 Battery the PCE-AC66 only works with Windows.
The card comes with powerful hardware and three detachable antennae, as well as a low-profile bracket to work with small-chassis desktops.Almost exactly two years ago, Motorola's Android-in-Webtop-OS solution was kicked off the stage by ASUS' PadFone, Asus A32-K93 the world's first phone that could fully power a tablet module from its own OS. The original concept took a while to materialize, but since then the company has kept up with a surprisingly rapid product cycle. It was only five months from the first PadFone to the PadFone 2; and now seven months later, ASUS is offering the PadFone Infinity: a non-surprising full HD update for both the phone and the tablet module.
The phone itself also benefits from a newer 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 SoC, as well as a new brushed-aluminum body. So, does this upgraded package have what it takes to kill the "glass is half empty" mentality? Asus 90-OA001B2500Q Or would consumers still rather have two separate devices? Read on to find out.Let's start off with the phone.
Like many of the latest Android flagships, the PadFone Infinity comes with a 5-inch, 1080p display and a quad-core chip. In terms of resolution, viewing angle and color gamut, the newer screen is a significant upgrade from the predecessor's 4.7-inch, 720p panel; though the screens from both generations belong to Sharp's LTPS line (not to be confused with the newer IGZO line, which is currently less efficient at this panel size).
Unsurprisingly, the Infinity comes with a bigger built-in battery -- 2,400mAh, which is a nice bump from the old 2,140mAh cell. The main camera uses the same Sony 13-megapixel IMX091 sensor as the PadFone 2, but its lens has been upgraded from f/2.4 to a brighter f/2.0. On the other side of the phone, the old 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera has been replaced by a 2-megapixel, f/2.0 module (it's an OmniVision OV2722 sensor, if you care), Asus A41-K93 Batterybut the backlit capacitive soft keys below the screen are here to stay.
The Infinity utilizes a brand-new design that takes advantage of an aerospace-grade, twice-anodized aluminum alloy construction. Instead of the signature Zen-ripple etching on the old polycarbonate cover, the almost fully metallic Infinity features a vertical brush pattern across its back -- one that is ever so slightly curved when viewed from either the top or bottom, making the thickness vary from 8.9mm in the middle to about 6mm at the edges.