Asus outs svelte, aluminum Zenbook UX305 and the EeeBook, a $199 Chromebook killer

Asus announced a brace of new to the job Windows 8.1 PCs by the side of IFA on Wednesday, and they're to the same degree opposite to the same degree polar opposites can survive: The aluminum-clad Zenbook UX805 (pictured above) is the hottest version of the company's signature Zenbook Ultrabook line, while the simply named Asus Eeebook X205 is the spiritual successor to—you guessed it—Asus' old line of Eee PCs.

The theme of Asus event was premium elegance, an ethos prolonged exemplified in the sphere of the Zenbook sequence. The hottest submission continues the trend, fair a 13.3-inch 3200x1800 high-resolution put on show with 267 pixels-per-inch density, an ultra-slim 0.48-inch frame weighing in the sphere of by the side of 2.645 lbs., and black or else ashen color options with the aim of Asus artifact director Derek Yu claims were inspired by obsidian and ironstone china, correspondingly.

Beneath the break the surface, the Zenbook UX805 packs single of Intel's new to the job, power-efficient meat M processors and 128GB or else 256GB SSD options. Pricing and availability were not announced, alas.

Eeebook x205
The 11.6-inch EeeBook X205 meanwhile, is more or less a new generation netbook, powered by Windows 8.1 with Bing and a quad-core Intel Atom computer. That's paired with 2GB of RAM and either 32GB or else 64GB of onboard luggage compartment, augmented by 500GB of complimentary Asus WebStorage (read: Cloud storage) and 100GB of complimentary Microsoft OneDrive luggage compartment on behalf of two years. Connectivity-wise, there's a brace of USB 2.0 ports, Micro-SD and Micro-HDMI, and of direction, Wi-Fi.

Asus made a gigantic to-do in excess of the laptop's better-than-netbook styling, plus four dissimilar color options. The EeeBook X205 additionally has a hefty baby grand and trackpad of the size normally found in the sphere of 14-inch laptops, according to Yu.

All in the sphere of all, the Asus EeeBook appears poised to join the HP Steam 14 in the sphere of Microsoft's escalating "Chromebook killer" ranks—cheap, lightly spec'd policy designed to take the Windows battle straight to Google's web-centric notebooks. To the same degree far to the same degree the humankind of Windows tackle goes, the EeeBook's internals ought to let somebody have it performance comparable to a mainstream Windows tablet, with very little luggage compartment to match—not with the aim of narrow tough drive interim matters to the same degree much if you table to function the laptop in the sphere of Chromebook-like form.

Pricing on behalf of the EeeBook X205 was announced by the side of 199 euros. I'd expect the machinery to swap banned the euro sign on behalf of a cash sign whilst it hits stateside, every time with the aim of happens to survive.

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