ASUS Official Double Ultrabook Zenbook Starting at $999

At the same time as Intel put forward the ultrabook concept of ultrabook, Asustek stood up to express its support and demonstrated the engineering prototype, but it was robbed by Acer for the first time on the release of the listing. The latter's “hummingbird” Aspire S3 will land in China within this month. Market, selling price 7999-9999 yuan. At a conference in New York City, USA today, Asustek Shen Zhenlai finally released their ultrabook product, the 11.6-inch UX21E and 13.3-inch UX31E named Zenbook.

UX21E and UX31E are all made of brushed metal brushed aluminum housings, combined with a special industrial design to achieve a very thin and extremely light figure. The thickness of the front of the blade shape is only incredible 3 mm, and the back end of the curve is only 9 Mm, and the thickest place in the middle does not exceed 17 mm. The former has a length and width of 299 x 196 millimeters and the latter 325 x 223 millimeters, while the weights are 1.1 kilograms and 1.3 kilograms respectively.

Using the unique second-generation super-hybrid engine “Super Hybrid Engine II”, the two ultrabooks also have extremely fast response speeds, including: 2-second sleep recovery, standby time of up to 2 weeks, and battery power of only 5 Data is automatically backed up at %, the Battery Saving Mode extends battery life by up to 25%, and PowerWiz gadgets display battery life at any time in various applications.

Specific specifications, UX21E LED backlit screen resolution 1366 × 768, the processor can choose ultra-low voltage dual-core Intel Core i7-2677M/i5-2467M/i3-2367M, thermal design power 17W, integrated graphics core HD Graphics 3000, Chipset Intel QS67, on-board memory 4GB DDR3-1333, hard disk is SATA 6Gbps interface 64/128/256GB solid state hard disk, network has Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n wireless network card, Bluetooth 4.0, Audio has ASUS and Bang & Olufsen ICEpower jointly developed SonicMaster, input and output interface with audio output / headphone output, USB 3.0, USB 2.0, mini VGA, micro HDMI interface each one (note that VGA / HDMI are mini may need adapter ). The battery is a 35W lithium polymer type with a battery life of up to 5 hours and standby for 7 days.

UX31E screen resolution of 1600 × 900, the processor is the same ultra-low voltage ultra-low power Core i7-2677M/i5-2557M, solid-state hard drive provides only 128/256GB two large-capacity models, an additional SD / MMC combo read Card device, lithium polymer battery also increased to 50W, the longest life of 7 hours, standby up to 10 days.

UX21E and UX31E will begin to be listed in the United States starting immediately, starting at US$999 and US$1,099, respectively. The UX31E requires $1,499 to select the highest configuration.