Computex 2014: The ASUS Booth Tour
by Ian Cutress on June 11, 2014 11:45 AM ESTIntel in Fonepad and MeMO Pad
One of the big stories to come out of Computex was the large number of design wins for Intel’s Silvermont based platforms. Some of the items we saw at ASUS system press event on Monday at Computex were the new Fonepad and MeMO Pad models, with the Fonepad featuring Intel’s Moorefield processors.
The Fonepad was nice and light (299g) and doing basic navigation on the device did not reveal any slowdown. The Fonepad 7 here is more oriented towards the mid-range 7-inch tablet market, featuring a 1280x800 IPS display with 10-point multi-touch. The SoC is the 64-bit Intel Z3560, a quad core 1.8 GHz Silvermont based system leveraging a PowerVR G6430 at 533 MHz. The system was running Android 4.4, but with only 1 GB of LPDDR3, which suggests that high-end gaming use might be limited. Perhaps the lower resolution display might help with this. The device will ship with either 8GB or 16GB of onboard storage, along with 5GB of online ASUS WebStorage plus 11GB for the first year.
The MeMO Pad 7 and MeMO Pad 8 were also launched at the ASUS press conference earlier in the week, both almost identical to each other except the screen size, 25g of weight and 1.3mm z-height.
Both models use the same Z3745 (quad core 64-bit, up to 1.86 GHz) and same 1280x800 IPS display. The battery in the 7-inch model is listed at 15 Wh compared to 15.2 Wh in the 8-inch.
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CknSalad - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - link
Hopefully the GR8 has a desktop cpu. If they are using desktop cpu parts, it would be nice if they have i5 and i7 T-Models as the cpu options (lowest is 35W TDP).I just hope that the custom cooling for the cpu isn't that of a notebook cpu cooler as they did market this as being able to run quietly (small size and low noise are the high points for me). Overall, this custom-built PC has a lot of good potential as a good lan, media, and streaming pc.
jimhsu - Saturday, June 14, 2014 - link
Any news on the UX303 (ultrabook form factor + discrete 840M)? That'll me my next notebook, if nothing better comes out in the interim.Matthew Wills - Thursday, May 16, 2019 - link
It's great that companies like Asus think about education and other social areas. Technologies will now be introduced into the educational system at an incredible speed. Already there are a huge variety of educational websites. Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites in the world. https://edusson.com/ an online writing service, is one of the largest websites that is designed to help students learn. Every day, thousands of students search the Internet for educational materials, but this is scattered throughout the network. The state needs to create its own educational web resource where all necessary information will be collected and systematized.