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View Full Version : Purported ASUS holiday roadmap pegs Windows 8 tablets at $599 and above



wraggster
September 18th, 2012, 01:54
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/09/asusroadmap.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/17/asus-windows-8-tablets-599-799/)Windows 8 tablets (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Windows8tablet/) have had their specs bandied about for months, but their prices have continued to remain off the radar. Now, however, a purported ASUS holiday roadmap sent to ZDNet may give us a glimpse as to how badly bank accounts could be affected this fall. According to the slide, the ASUS Vivo Tab (http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/29/asus-outs-dockable-windows-8-vivo-tab-and-vivo-tab-rt/) will carry a $799 price tag and its Windows RT counterpart will come in at $599, which matches the previously reported price difference between slates running Redmond's latest OS with Intel and AMD processors. The ASUS Taichi (http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/04/asus-taichi-notebook-tablet/) dual-screen notebook / tablet hybrid is said to ring up at a heftier $1,299. As for the firm's Transformer Book (http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/04/asus-transformer-book/), it will supposedly set purchasers back $1,399. If these prices are any indication of what we can expect from other OEMs (http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/13/microsoft-windows-rt-tablet-partners-asus-dell-lenovo-samsung/), Microsoft's Surface (http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/18/microsoft-tablet-announced/) might be pricier than hoped (http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/14/microsoft-surface-199/)

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