10.1” Asus Transformer Book T100HA hybrid laptop – Chromebook killer with 15” Macbook Pro stylings

If you want to take a quick look into the future as to what's coming in Christmas 2015, you only have to look to the Trade shows in the Far East. By far the most popular of those Trade Shows is the Computex Trade Show in Taipei, Taiwan.

Asus seems to already have a foot in the door as it relates to the future, as they've outed some products that showcase their forward thinking style. Windows 10 from Microsoft is coming on Wednesday July 29^th 2015 as stated in the article “Windows 10: release date, price, news and features”, published June 8th 2015 by Joe Osborne, Techradar but Asus already has products using Windows 10.

One of those products is a part of the popular Transformer line, the Asus Transformer Book T100HA hybrid laptop as described in the article “Asus Transformer Book T100HA Preview”, published 1 June 2015 by Seamus Byrne, CNET News.

Albeit this product isn't out as yet, the specs look really good.

10.1" Asus Transformer Book T100HA hybrid laptop – Cherry Trail leads to a Windows 10 Chromebook

The 10.1" Asus Transformer Book T100HA hybrid laptop, like its predecessors, is really a Tablet with a detachable keyboard with an overall Laptop form-factor. Silky smooth to the touch and super slim at 8.45 mm, it weighs in at 580 g and comes in four (4):

1.      Silk White

2.      Tin Grey

3.      Aqua Blue

4.      Rouge Pink

10.1” Asus Transformer Book T100HA hybrid laptop runs Windows 10 on a much improved Intel Atom “Cherry Trail” X5 series Processor supported by 4 Gb RAM.  The 10.1” screen is an impressive 1,280x800 pixels and might be touch-enabled.

10.1” Asus Transformer Book T100HA hybrid laptop – Chromebook killer with 15” Macbook Pro stylings

But what has me surprised is the fact that the 10.1” Asus Transformer Book T100HA hybrid laptop has more in common with the recently updated 15” Apple Macbook Pro as described in “Apple updates 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch and the 27-inch 5K Retina iMac with a lower starting price", published May 19, 2015, by Dan Ackerman, CNET News.  

That is, it has a USB 3.1 Type-C port and also sports an impressive 14 hour battery life. It might possibly have other features that will be revealed when a full review of the product comes out.

So far, however, it has a lot in common with the BYOMD (Bring Your Own Mouse Display) US$319 Pavilion Mini and the US$179 Stream Mini desktops as detailed in my blog article entitled “US$319 Pavilion Mini and the US$179 Stream Mini - Microsoft Windows 8.1 Desktop with OneDrive Cloud that's a Chromebox killer”.

But at possible price point trending below US$400, this jack-of-all-trades Asus Transformer Book T100HA hybrid laptop looks like yet another Windows based Chromebook killer.

Look for this product coming in the Fourth Quarter 2015.