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<\/p>\nThe world of convertible laptops just got its thinnest yet.<\/p>\n
Asus unveiled the Zenbook Flip S on Monday in a large-scale launch event, a day ahead of the larger Computex technology show in Taipei.<\/p>\n
The Zenbook Flip S is 10.9mm thin. In comparison, competitors like the HP Spectre x360 come in at 13.8mm, and the Apple MacBook Air measures 17mm.<\/p>\n
The Taiwanese maker’s 13.3″ laptop features a 360-degree hinge and weighs just 1.1kg \u2014 again, lighter than the HP and Apple competition.<\/p>\n
It’ll be priced at $1,099.<\/p>\n
The Flip S also boasts a fingerprint security sensor, 4K display, and fully supports Windows Ink in Windows 10 \u2014 the OS’s support for onscreen pen input.<\/p>\n
And like everyone else, Asus is also jumping on the USB-C bandwagon, with two ports for data and charging.<\/p>\n
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But how durable is the laptop?<\/strong><\/p>\n Asus claims it’s able to handle 20,000 open and close cycles, so it should last its lifetime in the average user’s hands.<\/p>\n With a blue and gold finish, the ASUS Flip S is also stunning to look at \u2014 though its shiny surface also meant that every smudge and fingerprint could be seen.<\/p>\n Asus also unveiled four other laptops at the press conference: the ZenBook 3 Deluxe, the ZenBook Pro, the VivoBook S and the VivoBook Pro.<\/p>\n The VivoBook S comes in at the lowest price point \u2014 at just $499.<\/p>\n At the launch event, Asus Chairman, Jonney Shih, talked up the new laptops’ thin profiles, saying: “Our brand-new ZenBook and VivoBook line-up…[provides] everyone with a new definition of thin, beautiful and powerful laptops.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: Mashable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The world of convertible laptops just got its thinnest yet. Asus unveiled the Zenbook Flip S on Monday in a large-scale launch event, a day ahead of the larger Computex technology show in Taipei. The Zenbook Flip S is 10.9mm thin. In comparison, competitors like the HP Spectre x360 come in at 13.8mm, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[7559,7560,7561],"class_list":["post-323574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-asus-convertible-laptop","tag-mashable","tag-thinnest-convertible-laptop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}