ASUS UX Series: New ultra-portable MacBook Air competitor

ASUS UX Series: New ultra-portable MacBook Air competitor

Since the dawn notebooks are traded as a mobile companion, but just when you think about it, is a big machine with a screen size of 15 inches and a weight of 2-3 kg of limited mobility and could in the long run but a little hard in the pocket . Having presented our friends in Cupertino before a while the MacBook Air, other manufacturers jumped on the train and attempted to extremely thin and light laptops.

But frankly, has never managed to present a manufacturer a similarly well-rounded work such as the MacBook Air, however things seem now with the new ASUS UX to change series.
 
 These new ultra-thin laptops and share a housing made ​​of an aluminum alloy, and its contents weighs just 1.1 kilograms. At the shallowest point, it is also just 3 millimeters high at the thickest only 17 mm - here is one with the Apple competitor in about the same.
 

 


As an input device is installed here resemble a Chiclet keyboard, which we are already accustomed to the most laptops and netbooks, and a touch pad, the surface of a smartphone is - perhaps this is glass used as the base.
But that was not the only ace up its sleeve, because tinkers inside an Intel Core processor, the second generation (codenamed Sandy Bridge), a model can be used to the big Core i7. In addition to a solid state drive and SATA 6 Gb / s to help the process of the device is nearly bring without delay from the rest of life.
The only disadvantage is probably that they also compromise on the terminals must, but here we are at least one USB 3.0 port offer.

An introduction is current for the 3rd Quarterly planned, probably in September. That the good pieces will not come cheap should most be clear. However, Apple does not sleep and it is expected that in the meantime a new MacBook Air comes on the market.

Source: TechConnect Magazine