ASUS may be ready to step where Lenovo went before with a new Chrome OS tablet, complete with kickstand and keyboard cover. Intelligence suggests that the so-called Chromebook Flip device may have almost the same specification footprint as last year’s Duet. And in fact, the few places were that things differ, this new tablet could come out bigger and better.
The photos we share here and specific lines come from the German retailer Saturn as picked up by Chrome Unboxed.
The so-called CM3000 – apparently codenamed Saturn – uses MediaTek’s MT8183 processor, which is itself quite a reheated version of the Lenovo Duet’s Helio P60T, as they mainly have four Arm Cortex A73 cores and four A53 cores with all of them capable of having a maximum clock of 2 GHz.
The screen diagonal gets 0.4 “with no change in resolution, but it does have a larger total footprint and more mass. ASUS also found that it can afford a 3.5mm audio jack here and designed the keyboard cover with its soft touch.surface to magnetically attach to the tablet – as Microsoft’s Surface converters do, and unlike the Lenovo Duet.The one sore spot for the CM3000 is back with the display, as the highest brightness of 320 net seems to perform against the Duet’s 400 nets.
Otherwise, the rest of the skin is aligned.
We’re a little less sure about how Chrome Unboxed includes this photo in its media package, which suggests that the tablet has a silo for an embedded stylus, especially since one of Saturn’s slanted profile photos provides a clear picture of the contains full version. top edge of the device with no port visible where the pin would be. However, the possibility is not ruled out that a stylus on the keyboard cover will have a suitable home and can be included in the sale.
Saturn dropped a price of € 449 as a placeholder, but if you think a similar Lenovo Duet sold for $ 279 at launch, we think it’s best open for discussion.
