Asus at IFA 2014: an EeeBook for 200 euros and the thinnest 13-inch QHD laptop on the market

The IFA 2014 is already underway, and the first manufacturer to present has been ASUS, a presentation that our colleagues from Xataka Android have followed. And although the protagonist has been the ZenWatch, they have also presented two laptops: the EeeBook X205 and the ZenBook UX305

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The EeeBook is a 11.6-inch laptop (1366 x 768 pixels) designed for mobility, weighing less than 1 kilo (980 grams), with a size of 28.6 x 19.3 x 1.75 centimeters, and which promises 12 hours of battery life.It has what they call Connected Standby, which allows you to receive emails and other notifications with the laptop closed, and which allows an almost instantaneous reboot."

Of course, what you gain in mobility you lose in power: the processor is a quad-core Intel Atom Bay Trail, with 2 GB of Ram and 32 or 64 GB of flash storage (eMMC). In terms of connectivity, it has Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, two USB 2.0 ports, a microHDMI output and a microSD reader.

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The strengths of the laptop are, according to Asus, a large trackpad, the same size as 14-inch laptops, with Smart Gesture technology>price: €200. "

That low price would be thanks to Windows 8.1 with Bing, which we remind you that comes with Bing as the default search engine in Internet Explorer.Also, according to the press release, it would come with pre-installed applications such as Skype or Photoshop (we assume a trial version or Photoshop Express, which is free).

Asus Zenbook UX305, the slimmest 13-inch QHD

The other laptop they have presented is the Zenbook, with much better features. 13.3-inch screen with QHD resolution (3,200 x 1,800 pixels), which gives it a density of 267 ppi, quite high. Its lightness is a strong point: 1.2kg and just 12.3 millimeters thick.

Finished in aluminum, inside it will have an Intel Core M (Broadwell family), SSD storage of 128 or 256 GB and a 10-hour battery life in use. In the absence of having it in our hands and knowing price and availability, a very, very attractive high-end range