Laptop – TWFLD

ASUS Transformer Book Flip has a rotatable screen, sub 5k pricing

Papi Mabele — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:52:00 +0000

Single-cable USB monitors have been around for a while, so it was only a matter of time before someone came up with a USB Type-C update. As it turns out, ASUS is the first to announce such a product and might have initially bested Lenovo’s Yoga with its dual-screened convertible laptop, but two screens meant weaker battery life and well, it was expensive too. The Transformer Book Flip, TP200 to be exact, then, offers four different use cases: completely flat like a tablet, a house of cards style prop-up structure, a media-viewing mode with the keyboard down, and good-ole laptop mode.

The notable thing here is that the Transformer Book Flip will arrive with similar pricing to ASUS’ middleweight to entry-level Vivobook series. (We managed to get local pricing: the Flip starts at R5 999 for the 11.6-inch Dual-core 2.16 GHz model)

Screen resolutions go up to 1366 x 768, we’d advise sticking to the higher resolution models if you can afford to. The build quality looks a lot like the middleweight laptops that ASUS has shown in years past, although there’s a classy brushed aluminum effect to the top of the laptop. The device is already available at major PC hardware retailers. We can’t wait to get out hands-on.

ASUS’ super thin UX305 will set you back 12K at launch

Papi Mabele — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:20:28 +0000

We’ve already seen what Intel’s Core M chips can do to a laptop — all of the specimens we’ve seen have been impossibly skinny and lightweight. The problem is, that brand of thin-and-lightness doesn’t come cheap: Lenovo’s new Yoga Pro 3 starts at R15 000, for instance, while the Apple’s Mac Pro is currently going for R16 000 and up.

Leave it to a slightly lesser known brand, then, to shake things up. ASUS is about to start selling that skinny, 0.48-inch-thick Zenbook UX305 we saw announced last summer, and the price is actually quite reasonable, especially considering its specs more or less match the competition.

All told, the higher-end edition that steps up to a 3,200 x 1,800 touchscreen. At that point, it basically match machines like the Yoga 3 Pro, which come standard with a QHD+ display, except in this case, you can expect to pay R11 999 and not R15 000. Kind of nice, isn’t it.

Nokia teases Tablet & Laptop in ‘screen of your choice’ invite

Papi Mabele — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:11:25 +0000

Just when we were beginning to dismiss the rumours of Nokia releasing a Tablet in the near future, invites teasing a new handset, tablet an laptop from Nokia lands in our inbox this morning!

While the invite is not to a physical event in SA, the one we receive are for a live stream live from Abu Dhabi and you too can catch the event on conversations.nokia.com at 9am CAT.