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Asus   always come up with the coolest multi-functional products. The best example is probably the PadFone - the phone that fits inside a tablet that comes with a stylus that's also a  Bluetooth headset  - but their latest big reveal is pretty incredible as well. It's called the Asus Transformer Book Trio , and as the name suggests it has three rather different operating modes. So to start off, we've got what looks to be a normal laptop computer, running Windows 8 on a new Intel Core i7 Haswell processor . There's a nice full HD 11.6-inch display with 10 finger touch support. And that's pretty cool by itself, but it gets  way  cooler. Flip a switch, and the Trio will swap to running Android instead, running off an entirely separate Intel Atom processor . Storage between the two modes is shared too, so you can edit a document on Windows then send it off on Android. So that's pretty cool, but it's not the only way that the Trio is crazy-awesome.

ASUS launched the Transformer P1801 All-In-One at Computex towards the end of 2012. It is a tablet cum computer that you can boot with either Windows 8 or Android Jelly Bean . There is a button on the side of the device that you can use to toggle between the operating systems. It is a desktop that can be converted into a tablet by removing the 18 inch display. A quick look at the specifications of the  Asus Transformer P1801. · 18.4-inch 10-point multi-touch IPS screen; resolution: 1920 X 1080 pixels · CPU: Intel Core i5 or i7 ,Nvidia Tegra 3 · Memory : 1TB hard drive and 32 GB solid-state storage · Wi-Fi connectivity · Weighs 5.73 pounds · USB 3.0 It is expected to be available by the end of the first quarter this year, and estimated to cost somewhere between $ 1200 and $ 1300. I’d say this is pretty aggressive pricing, considering the specifications and capabilities. It is similar to the all