Asus UX21 - An Impressively Thinner Yet A Powerful, Laptop

Although I certainly didn't get my hands on it, yet from those who did, I hear them say, at its most thickest point, it's still about 17mm (about 3mm! at the most lowest). And when looking at the whole design it's apparent that Asus upcoming UX21 Laptop is certainly "inspired" by Apple's Mac Book Air.

But when considering its hardware specifications it's certainly powerful than theMac Book Air. For instance it packs with USB 3.0 mega speed :) ports, SATA III SSD drive as the main HDD, Intel Core i7 processor... yup it may look like a skinny/sexy model (female of course :P) but also very powerful at the same time as well.

But we all have seen these iPhone killers or iPad killers yet none of them have been able to beat Apple at their own game. I honestly can't figure out why Apple products are so much popular but if you are gonna introduce another iPad or Mac Book "Killer", it's not just about Power, which should be apparent by now.

Anyway for those of you haven't heard SATA III SSD doesn't mean it a hybrid HDD with a rotating SATA mechanical drive + solid state disk... again most of you know this but for those who doesn't, UX21 comes with a SSD drive and that "SATA III" part means that the SSD drive is as fast as the SATA III or version 3 which is about 6000Mbit/s (at its peak - Megabytes per second).

So basically with a SATA III SSD drive you can copy/move a 700MB DVD rip slightly above 1 second, how's that for speed.

Well, it looks pricey... :)

Asus say that they'll start shipping it in September. It comes with a 11.6 Wide screen display with 1366x768 HD resolution, gassy touch pad (those aren't that sensitive for my taste), Full and stylish keyboard, mini-HDMI port, no SD card reader (but that may change if they "hear" the complaints), 1 USB3 port and 1 USB 2.0 port, 64/128SSD drive.

A 1.1kg of weight...  although for the "showoff" they had an Intel Core i5 processor running at 1.7Ghz yet they've said that it'll come with an i7.

Although other things such as battery life, price or RAM are still unknown yet when asked whether it'll be cheaper than the Mac Book Air, the answer was Yes! (consider the "bold" :D). Well it's just 3 months ahead, so, we'll see.

The New Motorola XOOM (Specifications) - Ready to Take on the Ipad!

Before giving you the new Motorola Xoom hardware specifications let me say this, I like their approach. The reason is simple actually the aren't trying to create something exactly look alike the iPad and hoping it'll dominate the market. Instead they with the Xoom tablet PC seems to concentrate on the weaker points or where iPad is missing. Aaah an intelligent opponent!. Anyway enough for the boring stuff below are the hardware details....

*. Multi touch 10.1 Screen with 1280x800 resolution.

*. Dual cam (front -2MP one for you Skype abusers ;-) ) and with a back camera of 5MPX (mega pixels), 720p HD video capturing, auto focus, geo tagging, etc.

*. Featuring the Dual-Core Nvidia Tegra 2 mobile processor (1Ghz). The package also include a GPU which with the help of the mobile processor will be able to play 1080p videos with ease. And also the GPU features enhanced 3D graphics + low power usages, etc as well.

*. Android 3.0 is the Default operating system. So the users will be given a wide range of third party applications (both free and paid) which in my opinion - the android market is cheaper and better than the iPad.

Ooh can't wait to get my hands on......

*. Adobe 10.1 player support, accelerometer and gyroscope are all included.

*. 1 GB of RAM.

*. Wi-Fi and 3G.

*. Bluetooth 2.1

*. Standard stereo speaker outputs.

*. USB 2.0 ports.

*. 32GB internal storage (SSD drive).

*. Facebook, Twitter and all other "weird" social sites (just kidding no disrespect :D ) + e-mail, chatting features.

*. GPS and A-GPS navigation.

*. HDMI 1.4 version.

No need to tell when it comes to playing music and videos on the tablet PC it simply will (well it better should!) rock thanks to the mammoth CPU and the mobile GPU. So it's not cleaner when the new Motorola Xoom with the android 3.0 will be released but it will be interesting nonetheless!.