ASUS has unveiled not only some new tablets with Android, but for users interested in Windows 8 also some very fine Ultrabooks as the UX301 touch screen with Gorilla glass 3 rear. The best of both worlds is there but--at least in theory - with the ASUS transformer book trio. While an Intel Atom Z2760 is installed in the tablet itself, you can find keyboard dock in with up to 1 TB of hard drive storage, a 4th generation Intel Core i processor and up to 4 GB RAM everything you need to work with full Windows 8.

The concept is relatively simple - it is taken basically to an Android tablet, which functions as a display for the keyboard dock, which works independently at the same time as Windows-8-PC. So you can connect the dock to an external display and use a computer or just both together as a laptop with touch screen. The Tablet part is slightly thicker than for example in the new transformer pad with 8.9 mm this 9.7 mm, but up on the not quite fixed hinge processing there is nothing objectionable. It was stressed however that it is merely preliminary series devices, so that the problem of the end product may not appear.

While there are no surprises when Windows 8, the Android software similar to the version that is installed on the new Android tablets like the new transformer pad with optical adjustments in the status bar and additional options such as the display calibration with the splendid app. The Tablet is actually only a microSD slot that goes to the interfaces, in the dock, however, two USB 3.0 ports, a mini display port and also a micro HDMI port find their place.

By clicking on the appropriate button to change in theory easily between Android and Windows 8, however, there were some problems that are hopefully ironed out until the final release in my Hands-On. The hinge was not optimally installed and switching to Windows 8 not to work or to register any more inputs the touchscreen seemed occasionally. At a price starting at 999 euro can expect, that ASUS makes time to make the device ready for series production – a date of availability was not called that.