At Computex 2013 in Taiwan, Asus has announced the Transformer Book Trio, the “world’s first” three-in-one laptop, tablet, and desktop PC (!). To obtain this rather dubious title, Asus has created a single device that runs both Windows (desktop and laptop), and Android (tablet). That’s not the weird bit, though: Whereas most modern computers get by with just one CPU, the Transformer Book Trio has two: A brand-new Haswell Core i7 chip for Windows, and a Clover Trail Atom CPU for Android.
Putting aside the obvious nomenclature issues — the Transformer Book Trio is clearly not a desktop PC — the Transformer Book Trio is actually a stroke of genius. If you’re not up to speed on Asus transformers, let me explain. The Trio’s predecessor, the first Transformer Book, was essentially a Core i7 tablet that plugged into a keyboard docking station. Beyond providing a keyboard, the dock also contained a secondary battery and some expansion ports (RJ45, USB, DisplayPort). Essentially, though, the first Transformer Book was simply a tablet that plugged into a dock.
The Transformer Book Trio, however, puts an Atom CPU in the tablet — and a Haswell Core i7 processor and 1TB hard drive in the docking station. In other words, the docking station is now a fully fledged laptop, but without a monitor.

The tablet portion of the Transformer Book Trio has an 11.6-inch screen at 1920×1080, 64GB of storage, and it’s powered by an Atom Z2580 (Clover Trail) SoC at 2GHz. This is the top-of-the-line Clover Trail+ CPU, featuring a dual-core SGX 544MP2 GPU, but it’s still pretty weak in the grand scale of things. Power consumption for Clover Trail+, however, is pretty good. Operating-system wise, the tab runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, but... [url]tech-latests..com[/url]