The first official day of IFA 2017 isn’t until Friday, September 1st, but the pre-event festivities are already in full force. Like Acer and Samsung, ASUS had its big press conference today in Berlin, where it revealed a slew of new mainstream, multimedia and gaming laptops. It also shared more details about its upcoming Windows […]
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Asus Zenbook Flip laptops get quad-core Intel CPUs and discrete graphics
Mark Walton If you like your laptops thin and light then boy has Asus got the laptops for you. Asus has dubbed its new ZenBook Flip 14 the “world’s thinnest 2-in-1 with high-performance discrete graphics,” which is an impressive qualifier if there ever was one. Still, at just 13.9mm thick, weighing 1.4kg, and with a […]
ASUS’ latest 2-in-1 has NVIDIA graphics and weighs 3 pounds
If you need a very light convertible or laptop and still want to do some light gaming or video editing, the latest ASUS ZenBook Flip and VivoBook models may do the trick. Just a few months ago, ASUS unveiled the thinnest 2-in1 ever, the ZenBook Flip S. Now, the new ZenBook Flip 14 is the […]
ASUS ZenFone AR review: A ‘better’ Tango phone doesn’t mean much
Google’s Tango augmented reality technology isn’t new, and its debut last year on Lenovo’s Phab2 Pro left a lot to be desired. I mean, honestly, as neat as AR apps can be, an enormous phone with a mid-range chipset wasn’t the best vehicle for them. Meanwhile, ASUS was fine with waiting, and that has made […]
Asus leaks four ZenFone 4 models on its own website
Last year’s Asus’ ZenFone 3 line of mobile devices included a ton of spinoffs, including the ZenFone 3 Deluxe, ZenFone 3 Laser and the dual-camera ZenFone 3 Zoom this past January. Apparently the potentially confusing naming conventions are going to continue, as Asus just accidentally leaked four new ZenFone 4 models onto its own website, […]
ASUS’ take on mesh WiFi is now available
Mesh networking is all the rage for people who want to fill every bit of their home with sweet high-speed Wi-Fi. Lynksys, Google, Netgear, TP-Link and Eero all have devices that use the new technology to smooth out the dead spots in your home. Now Asus has joined the crowd with its Lyra Home WiFi […]
ASUS ROG Zephyrus review: Gaming laptops will never be the same again
The ASUS ROG Zephyrus is an entirely new breed of gaming notebook. It packs in the most powerful laptop graphics hardware on the market, NVIDIA’s GTX 1080, in a frame that’s almost half the size of similar machines. Mostly, that’s due to being one of the first notebooks to feature NVIDIA’s Max-Q design standard, which […]
ASUS made an even bigger curved monitor especially for gamers
Yeah, ASUS, we get it: you’re really into games these days. We’re about halfway through the company’s Republic of Gamers press conference here at Computex in Taipei, and we just got our first dose of info about its latest gamer-friendly monitor: a curved 35-inch Quantum Dot LCD panel running at 3440×1440, complete with HDR support […]
ASUS crams a GTX 1080 into a 16.9mm-thick laptop
For most people, Zephyrus is the Greek god of the west wind, gently bringing spring, and fruit, to the peoples of the world. For gamers, you can be damn sure that definition is going to be quickly supplanted by the one created by ASUS’ Republic of Gamers today. Now, Zephyrus means a pretty damn powerful […]
ASUS’ Tango-powered ZenFone AR will hit the US in July
We already knew from Google I/O that ASUS’ ZenFone AR, the second-ever Tango phone (and the first to also support Daydream), was getting close to its official launch, and that it’s coming to the US as a Verizon exclusive this summer. Thankfully, we now know when people will actually be able to buy one. Right […]