ASUS Unveils ZENBOOK – Companies First Ultrabook at $999
ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih has unveiled the long-anticipated ZENBOOK that fuses masterpiece design and incredible performance at a global launch event in New York along with Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Sales and Marketing Group, Tom Kilroy. The Ultra Era event opened with a vivid, yet tranquil dance to Moon Water featuring a performance artist from the internationally renowned Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. The performance set the tone of the event, to display that the ASUS ZENBOOK is designed to be effortlessly enjoyable without compromising on performance. It exudes the perfect balance of elegance and power in an Ultrabook. With a thickness of 0.11 at the front and 0.67 at the rear, the ZENBOOK UX21 exterior lines are sleek, making it the thinnest Ultrabook on the market and perfect for users constantly on-the-go, in the classroom or relaxing at home. The ZENBOOK will be available for order in North America starting on Oct. 12, with prices starting at $999 (suggested MSRP).
The ZENBOOK is designed with an instant-on feature that resumes the system in about 2 seconds* and features incredible standby timesup to ten days, which is four times more than the industry standard. Although svelte and sleek, the ZENBOOK packs an impressive and uncompromising list of technological breakthroughs. It uses the latest Intel 2nd generation Core processors (optimized for mobile use), SATA Revision 3.0 solid state storage (SSD), Bluetooth V4.0 and USB 3.0. ASUS has also added USB Charger+ technology, which uses the powered USB 3.0 port to recharge portable devices in a fraction of the time it would normally take. To accommodate all of these technologies, ASUS engineers designed custom cooling technology using a V-shaped channel with a unique copper fin design for improved airflow and cooling.When battery life dips below 5 percent, the ZENBOOK will automatically save files in progress to prevent data loss.
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