Asus delays Taichi dual-screen ultrabooks - meaghercasere1999

Asustek has delayed U.S. shipments for its dual-screen Taichichuan ultrabooks, which were available for rank from retail sites ilk Amazon, Newegg and TigerDirect.

The Taichi tablet-laptop hybrid has an innovative design with two screens, uncomparable connected the advanced and one on the dorsum of a display panel. At first glance, it looks wish a laptop computer with an 11.6-inch touchscreen, but closing the laptop computer activates another 11.6-column inch touchscreen on the back of the panel for the device to become a tablet.

Taichichuan was an attention grabber when first announced at the Computex trade show in June this twelvemonth. The Taichi models were originally hoped-for to ship in November, not far after Windows 8 became available in PCs and tablets in of late October. An Asus spokeswoman aforesaid via email that U.S. shipments will likely start in December, just could be abeyant to even later than that. She did not offer specific reasons for the hold and did not provide information almost global shipping status for the Taichi.

The tablet-laptop Windows 8 hybrid gimmick is being sold in two models. The Taichi 21 DH51 has an Intel Core i5 processor and 128GB solid drive storage, and was originally priced at $1299 on Amazon.com, Newegg and TigerDirect.

A Taichi 21 DH71 is faster with an Intel Core i7 C.P.U. and 256GB SSD storage. It was priced at $1299 on Amazon.com (price has now been withdrawn) and at $1599 on Newegg and TigerDirect.

The retail sites have stopped taking orders and listed the Taichi models as either being unavailable or discontinued.

The Taichi models have sopranino-resolution, 1920-past-1080-picture element screens, weigh 1.2 kilograms, and have 4GB of RAM. Additive features admit a 5-megapixel webcam, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and two USB 3.0 ports.