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The next model in Asus's Eee Pad Transfomer line of docking tablets will come with a Tegra 3 quad-core chip, plus the promise of longer battery life, when it arrives in the UK
Asus plans to start selling a quad-core modular 10.1-inch tablet, the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, at the start of 2012.
The device made its debut in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday. It will be priced around £499 when it goes on sale in the UK in January, the company said. It will go up against rivals such as Lenovo's ThinkPad tablet.
It is lighter and provides one fewer USB port on the dock than its predecessor, the Eee Pad Transformer, which launched in May. In addition, the Prime version is powered by a Tegra 3 quad-core processor rather than the dual-core Tegra 2 in the earlier device.
At 8.3mm thick, the Transformer Prime is a slim tablet. Its audio is based on Asus's own SonicMaster technology. It promises a battery life of up to 12 hours.
Face on, it measures 263mm by 181mm, and it weighs 586g.
Caption by: Ben Woods
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