Asus Vivobook 13 Slate’s detachable OLED screen

Vivobook 13 Slate. © Asus.

As laptops with an OLED display become more common, Asus announced its new Windows laptop with a detachable 13.3-inch OLED touchscreen (1920 × 1080px, 16:9). The Asus Vivobook 13 Slate OLED stands out for its design and relatively modest US$ 600 price tag. The device is powered by a quad-core, four-thread Intel Pentium Silver N6000 with a base clock speed of 1.1 GHz, which can reach up to 3.3 GHz. Maximum PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD storage stands at 256GB and LPDDR4X RAM can reach 16GB. According to Asus, the battery lasts 9.5 hours. The components are housed in the display part of the PC, as are the ports: two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C ports, a 3.5 mm headphone jack and a microSD card reader, but no USB Type-A or Thunderbolt ports. This two-in-one comes with a stand that lets you incline the device horizontally or vertically at a 170° angle. It also comes with a stylus, the Asus Pen 2.0, which is based on the Microsoft Pen Protocol 2.0. Asus claims the stylus’s four interchangeable tips mimic 2H, H, HB, and B pencils. The basic set-up, priced at US$ 600 for 4GB of memory and 128GB of storage, arrives next month, just in time for the holidays.

⇨ Ars Technica, Scharon Harding, “Asus preps affordable 13-inch laptop with detachable OLED screen.”

2021-11-04