ASUS dockable Windows 8 tablets are planned for the holidays, but the pricing is high—$599 to $1,299 for a hybrid, says C/Net, who was leaked the Asus’ holiday roadmap.
- The Vivo Tab RT has a 10.1-inch IPS display with a 1,366 x 768 resolution, and runs a Tegra 3 processor and a 12-core GPU, with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage.
- The Vivo Tab sports an 11.6-inch IPS display with a 1,366 x 768 resolution and runs an Intel Atom Z2760 CPU with 2GB of RAM and 64GB of storage.
- Vivo Taichi is an ultrabook with a “double-sided display,” and runs third-gen Intel Core i-series ultrabook processors with SSD storage.
Clover Trail Atoms will give Windows 8 tablets ARM-like battery life. It uses the same 32nm CPU architecture but is a dual-core and paired with a more powerful GPU, a dual-core PowerVR SGX 544MP2 GPU that is said to be comparable to Apple’s A5X in graphics performance. Clover Trail in many of the first Windows 8 tablets, slotted in between the Windows RT devices at the low end and the low-power Ivy Bridge devices at the high end.
Asus could change its pricing before the tablets launch along with Windows 8, October 26.
