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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western Digital we're kicking things off here in the a su systems suite with the transformer book duet TD 300 the first transforming device that I really see myself using the transforming functionality of pretty much on a daily basis it can handle being a Windows 8.1 notebook or tablet and it can handle being an Android notebook or tablet and you can switch between them all very very quickly and seamlessly in terms of hardware it can handle an Intel Core i3 i5 or i7 processor it's got 4 gigs of RAM you can put SSD based storage in the top well it'll come with that and it also comes with hard drive based storage in the keyboard dock itself so that gives you the best of both worlds and finally it has a 1080p full HD display on this particular one although they've got sort of like a slash on the card so I think it'll also be available in a 1366 by 768 models so I want to show you guys how exactly the transformation works to detach the clamshell all you do is press the button in the middle this is actually better than many of the transformer mechanisms I've seen from Asus in the past and then you can reattach it simply by latching it back in place at which time you'll see the storage inside the keyboard dock is detected now to transform between Windows and Android is actually a bit of a treat so it only takes about four seconds you press this little button yes there is an app for that completely changing your OS and all of a sudden you go from Windows 8.1 to Android and you can imagine Android is going to absolutely fly on something like a core i7 processor so then to switch back between Android and Windows we go ahead and press the OS switch app and within about 4 seconds we are back in Windows 8.1 very very cool let's finish this up with a quick look at what we've got in terms of i/o on the left hand side we've got Gigabit Ethernet USB 3 SuperSpeed and HDMI as well as power in and then on the right hand side we've got a keyboard is a keyboard well we've got a USB port you could technically plug a keyboard into that as well as a microphone headphone combo jack next up we've got the G 750 Jay Z the unique thing about this notebook is that it does not come in a box it comes with a wrapper haha sorry for that anyway it comes with a core i7 processor it supports up to two two and a half inch drive so in the US that'll probably equate to a large SSD with a large hard drive although the final specs are not necessarily available yet particularly with regards to the graphics card so it has a next-generation presumably very high-end to go along with the rest of the high-end specs graphics card from am I allowed to say who it's even from yes it is from Nvidia so I'm sure you guys can all use your vivid imaginations to figure out what that's likely to be it supports up to 32 gigabytes of memory so it has eight DIMM slots it's got a full HD display it runs Windows 8.1 it's got a blu-ray drive and of course it has the ID that we have come to expect from Asus gaming notebooks with the business in the front that is to say your full layout keyboard including a number pad nice large trackpad and the party in the back so that's where you're gonna have all the cooling including your ventilation as well as your fans that keep Asus gaming notebooks particularly cool running now it's not that thin but this is a yet another hint about that graphics card with the kind of graphics horsepower that this notebook is likely to have putting it in an extremely thin form factor might not be possible and if you're looking for the ultimate in portable graphics with a 4th gen as well processor and a fantastic next generation graphics card this looks like it should be it next up we're here with the m8 ETA which may be the ultimate note-taking tablet for example it features a 5 megapixel camera on the back ok now we've seen this before what it actually has that's a little bit on the unique side is a quad core Bay Trail processor it's got 2 gigs of RAM it's available in 32 gig or 64 gig configurations it has a 1280 by 800 resolution IPS display and most importantly of all it has a Wacom digitizer so that is 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity and it means that you can use a passive pen in order to achieve said that desirable many levels of pressure sensitivity so that means you can draw notes you can write notes you can take pictures of notes because this is running on an x86 compatible architecture it comes now so not only is it compatible with Microsoft Office it comes with Microsoft Office so you can use a Bluetooth keyboard to type your notes and I think that pretty much oh yeah love that and it'll like basically fit into a little sleeve in your backpack or a large coat pocket thanks for checking out our coverage of the Asus system suite don't forget that our trip to the show is powered 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