{"id":752,"date":"2021-09-24T20:14:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/?p=752"},"modified":"2021-09-24T20:14:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:14:39","slug":"top-3-from-computex-2012-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/top-3-from-computex-2012-feature.htm","title":{"rendered":"Top 3 from Computex 2012 feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being an optimistic type of guy, I had hoped to pen a\u00a0Five of the best from Computex 2012<\/em>\u00a0feature. Alas, there\u2019s not a great deal to write about. Not in terms of new tablets and smartphones, anyways.<\/p>\n

Indeed, one of the biggest stories out of this year\u2019s Computex was\u00a0HTC\u2019s absence\u00a0from the first wave of Windows 8 tablets. Supposedly Microsoft had reservations about HTC\u2019s prior performance in the tablet field, not to mention a recent cut in sales forecasts. Oh dear.<\/p>\n

But I digress. Let\u2019s get back to these new devices. Windows 8 was the star of the show, and that\u2019s exactly what these three chaps rock.<\/p>\n

Asus Transformer<\/a> AiO<\/strong><\/p>\n

We haven\u2019t written anything about the Asus Transformer AiO just yet, and with good reason. See, it straddles the boundary between tablet and desktop, with a massive 18.4in display. Not exactly the kind of tablet you\u2019d use to play Angry Birds on the train.<\/p>\n

\"Three<\/a>Asus is a big fan of convergence, and the Transformer AiO \u2013 as I mentioned \u2013 doubles as a desktop, with a big fat base station type thing.<\/p>\n

At the moment, Asus Transformer AiO specs remain elusive. Not even a whisper on resolution. However, we do know that the Asus Transformer AiO will rock Windows 8\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0Android Tablet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A dual-booting tablet<\/a>\/desktop hybrid? It could only be Asus.<\/p>\n

Acer Iconia W510<\/strong><\/p>\n

Taiwan-based Acer revealed\u00a0two Windows 8 tablets<\/strong>\u00a0at Computex 2012, namely the Iconia W510 and Iconia W700.<\/p>\n

You know sometimes you see a tablet or a smartphone or whatever, and you just\u00a0want<\/em>\u00a0it? That\u2019s exactly how I felt when reading about the Acer Iconia W510. No offense, Iconia W700.<\/p>\n

\"Three<\/a>Not exactly a unique concept, but the Acer Iconia W510 has a keyboard dock, extending battery life<\/a> to a juicy 18 hours. The tablet portion can dock either way, so you can use the keyboard as a, uhm, keyboard, or as a stand.<\/p>\n

Other than a 10.1in IPS display and 8MP rear camera, exact Acer Iconia 510 specs are fairly guarded. It\u2019s thought to host an Intel chip, so that\u2019ll be Windows 8 as opposed to ARM\u2019s Windows 8 RT.<\/p>\n

On the poop side, Acer Iconia 510\u00a0price will be somewhere in the region of $599 to $799. Hmm.<\/p>\n

Asus<\/a> Taichi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back to Asus for the final in our top three from Computex 2012, and yes \u2013 it\u2019s another hybrid beast. The\u00a0Asus Taichi<\/strong>\u00a0is part laptop, part tablet. But wait; it gets better.<\/p>\n

The Asus Taichi doesn\u2019t have just one display. That\u2019d be ridiculous. Nope, it has a standard laptoppy display above the keyboard, and a second \u2013 effectively a touchscreen tablet, of sorts \u2013 on the back.<\/p>\n

\"ThreeBoth Asus Taichi displays boast a resolution of 1920 x 1080, with IPS goodness for angled viewing. There\u2019ll be two options when it comes to size, namely 11.6 and 13.3in.<\/p>\n

Other Asus Taichi specs of note include an Intel Core i7 processor (again that means Windows 8 as opposed to RT), 4GB of RAM, a pair of USB 3.0 ports, micro HDMI and a mini DisplayPort.<\/p>\n

According to sources of good old\u00a0DigiTimes<\/strong>, the Asus Taichi is estimated to have a Build of Materials (BOM) value of $900, which means price could \u2013 in theory \u2013 start around $1,300. Good lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being an optimistic type of guy, I had hoped to pen a\u00a0Five of the best from Computex 2012\u00a0feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330,76,19,18,760,57,303,46],"tags":[876,406,874,875,792],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussiebatt-com","category-batteries-company-com","category-battery-knowledge","category-battery-usage-tips","category-batteryfast-org","category-better-life-tips","category-laptop-reviews","category-tech-info","tag-3-best-from-computex-2012","tag-acer-as07b32-battery","tag-computex-2012","tag-computex-2012-feature","tag-windows-8-tablets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}