Gadgetory

i'm dan ackerman and we are here take a look at the asuste transformer book this looks like a fairly standard ultrabook style 13-inch laptop but because it has the word transform in the name you're not going to be surprised when I grab the screen like this and just lift the entire thing off because it's one of these laptops that becomes a tablet we usually call it as a hybrid now this is a little bit different than a lot of the other hybrids that we've seen because a lot of the other hybrids are very low power systems this is actually a intel core i7 system so it's a fairly powerful laptop and it has a 128 gig SSD hard drive in the screen where most of the components are but then a second 500 gig standard hard drive in the base where the keyboard is so that lets you store lots of movie files maybe video game install files all kinds of big stuff here in the face but just have the smaller tablet to take with you you know when you're on the go and you'll have to access all that other information I think it's a brilliant idea and I'm surprised that more of these hybrids have not done that although a few other models like that are coming out pretty soon you also get a secondary battery in the base although it may not really increase your battery life that much because you're driving the extra hard drive the keyboard and the ports and everything from it you've also got a screen here that's different than what we've seen a lot of the other hybrids it fits sort of the high-end price they're asking for this transformer book here it's a 1920 x 1080 screen which is fantastic and of course it's got that core i7 to drive it and then when you're using Windows 8 it's really great to have that HD screen especially if you're streaming HD movies that I may be playing games although this machine doesn't have a discrete graphics card so it's not a super gaming machine but you can do some casual gaming on it now of course you put all that together and they're asking about fourteen hundred dollars for this which is a lot more than something like the HP Envy x2 or some of the other less expensive hybrids that we've seen but it does add a lot of the high-end features I'd like to see in one of these if they can get the touchpad a little bit better maybe get the keyboard to be a little bit less flexi and just maybe make Windows 8 a little bit better at switching between orientations when you move the screen vertically and horizontally then they really could be something I've been a commit and that is the asuste transformer book