ASUS unveils Vivobook 13 Slate OLED detachable laptop, priced

With hybrid learning and remote working being the norm today, ASUS responds to this change with its latest innovative product that aims to deliver incredible experiences that enhance the lives of people everywhere.

Designed for the energetic and ever-connected Gen Zs, ASUS has launched the Vivobook 13 Slate OLED (T3300).

This 2-in-1 world’s first 13.3-inch Windows detachable laptop rewrites the rules to make it easier to enjoy everything, everywhere.

Fearless form factor

Known as multi-hyphenates in their online and offline worlds, Gen Zs need a versatile device that quickly adapts to their lifestyle. Now, there’s no need to carry multiple devices for school, work, and entertainment as the Vivobook 13 Slate OLED does it all.

This laptop can transform into four modes: tablet, landscape stand, portrait stand, and laptop mode, making writing, typing, or watching at any angle in any environment effortless.

It’s stylishly lightweight at 785g and 7.9mm in thickness, so users can be productive or entertained, even on the go.

It also features a full-size detachable keyboard and a cover stand with a 170° hinge. There’s also a high-precision ASUS Pen 2.0 stylus, neatly stored in a handy magnetic pen holder, so it’s always on hand.

OLED TV on-the-go

The fantastic Vivobook 13 Slate OLED is the master of entertainment, thanks to its big 13.3-inch OLED Dolby Vision touchscreen. This brilliant display has a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio that provides a full-screen viewing experience when watching movies and TV shows.

It’s also PANTONE Validated with a cinema-grade 100% DCI-P3 gamut for accurate, vivid colors, and it’s DisplayHDR True Black 500 certified for deep blacks and brilliant highlights. Along with its incredible high contrast ratio, this means it brings out every detail, even in the darkest scenes.

This OLED display has a fast 0.2-millisecond response time, and it offers much better eye protection, too, with naturally lower blue-light levels — up to 70% lower than an LCD display — that deliver TÜV Rheinland-certified and SGS-certified eye care.

Completing the exhilarating entertainment experience is the powerful quad-speaker Dolby Atmos sound system. This uses an intelligent amplifier to safely drive the four wide-range speakers at their maximum possible distortion-free volume — up to 3.5 times louder than a standard amplifier.

Note or sketch every creative idea

The Vivobook 13 Slate OLED makes it easy to pursue creative hobbies and interests with its responsive touchscreen and high-precision ASUS Pen 2.0. Pop the Microsoft Pen Protocol 2.0-compliant stylus out of its magnetic holder, and it’s ready to write, draw or annotate with its 4096-level pressure sensitivity, 5-350 gram pen-tip force, and 266 Hz sampling rate.

The four interchangeable pen tips have different textures that mimic 2H, H, HB, and HB pencils, providing a truly natural feel for sketching and drawing.

When paired via Bluetooth, the shortcut button provides intuitive one-click functions, such as taking screenshots or navigating to the next slide of a presentation.

It’s perfect for taking advantage of the free Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, which includes one month’s access to all the world-renowned Adobe creative apps.

Your versatile PC

When the school or work beckons, the Vivobook 13 Slate OLED excels at on-the-go productivity. Just clip on the full-size detachable keyboard, and it’s ready to blitz through the serious stuff. This magnetically attached marvel has keys spaced 19.05 mm apart for comfortable typing with an extended 1.4 mm key travel. In addition to that, this productivity device comes pre-installed with a lifetime license of Microsoft Office apps.

Zippy performance is provided by up to quad-core 3.3 GHz Intel processor, with top-class components that include up to a 128GB M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 SSD and up to 8GB of fast LPDDR4X RAM.

Need to connect a USB device or headphones or transfer some files? No problem, as the Vivobook 13 Slate OLED has two USB-C ports, an audio jack, and a microSD card reader ready. And for quick one-touch login, there’s an optional fingerprint sensor on the power button.

Charging the long-lasting 50 Wh battery is simple, too. Having a USB-C Easy Charge means it can be charged from a power bank or almost any USB-C charger, and the bundled will charge it to 60% in as little as 39 minutes, so there’s never any missed beat.

The ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED is now available in ASUS Concept Stores with a starting price of only PhP 39,995. Check here for the complete list of authorized stores.

Your PC, Your OLED TV Online Launch

Join the Your PC, Your OLED TV Online Launch featuring the Vivobook 13 Slate OLED ambassador Kyline Alcantara at the ASUS Philippines Facebook page on March 19, 8 pm. Catch Kyline to unbox the laptop and show how its different form factors adapt to her lifestyle. ASUS Philippines will also be giving away prizes to lucky viewers.

Specifications

SeriesVariantColorSpecsSRP
Vivobook 13 Slate OLEDT3300KA-LQ035WSBlack13.3″ FHD OLED touchscreen / Intel Pentium Silver N6000 Processor / 4GB LPDDR4X / 128GB eMMC / Intel UHD Graphics / Windows 11 Home / Microsoft Office Home and Student 2021

 

Sleeve / Stand / Soft Keyboard

PhP 39,995
T3300KA-LQ075WS13.3″ FHD OLED touchscreen / Intel Pentium Silver N6000 Processor / 8GB LPDDR4X / 128GB M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 SSD / Intel UHD Graphics / Windows 11 Home / Microsoft Office Home and Student 2021

 

Sleeve / Stand / Soft Keyboard / Stylus / Stylus holder

PhP 44,995

 

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We’re Here review: HBO’s new show that needs no introduction

10/10/2021

We’re Here is a new drag show that stars RuPaul’s Drag Race favorite Bob the Drag Queen and his co-drag queen mates Shangela and Eureka O’Hara.

With the pandemic shutting down bars and nightclubs and ultimately the drag shows they house, drag-thirsty folk can now get their fill of glittered shadow, feathered mascara, and fierce strutting while lip-syncing on HBO.

Unlike the reality show formula of Drag Race where each queen competes with one another for top title and money, We’re Here leans toward another familiar formula made famous by Queer Queen Eye for the Straight Guy. See what I did there?

No matter, the show doesn’t disguise from the affiliation.

The premise is simple: the three queens arrive in small-town America, preferably with an undeveloped (yet bubbling underneath) LGBTQ community, mount an extravagant drag show, taking some locals as their guests (and queenlets to mentor) to perform in the show.

The drag show serves as the show’s repeating finale or closer in every episode.

At face value, it looks like a show I would personally skip over with the remote when picking a show to consume during a chill Friday night. But just like that show’s general message, maybe we should give it a chance because we might like what we see.

Surprisingly, the new formula combined with the unapologetic opener of the drag queens’ flamboyant arrival at each small-town, walking around in their full drag queen personas, serves for a refreshing in-your-face TV that’s been missing in this age of streaming.

In true fashion of the colorful drag culture, each episode opens this way, and even if every small-town America’s reaction is pretty much identical to each other (whether it be shock, amusement, accepting or otherwise), it really doesn’t get old.

Although glints of the producers’ heavy hand on some scenes are pretty obvious (glaring example: having a previously intolerant mom perform drag as a way to apologize to her daughter for not accepting her when she came out), the show does catch genuine moments, especially when the Queens prepare their “drag daughters” for the drag show they are setting up.

Their small-town recruits, most of the time shoved way outside of their comfort zones, have moments when they are truly vulnerable and very often uncomfortable, which makes for truly authentic TV. It is also during these moments when you find all the drag queens’ outrageous sense of humor on display.

Mind you, We’re Here does not recruit exclusively within the LGBTQ community. The show is gender-blind when it comes to its recruits and delightfully surprises at each episode, making sure that an LGBTQ issue or something equally important, like mental health, is talked about both amongst each other and directly at the audiences during in-between interviews.

Again, it reeks of the producers’ heavy hand at maybe tugging at the viewer’s emotions, but at least it does get these issues discussed.

Credit must also be given to where credit is due because it takes a lot of guts and strength for these hosts to walk around and interact with small-town residents, where ignorance and intolerance are thriving.

Each show opens with Bob, Shangela and Eureka’s arrival in full drag, parading around their chosen small town, dealing with blatant stares, uncomfortable whispering, and outright avoidance from the local folk.

In one episode, dressed in normal (albeit still excessive) garb, the trio are put in a hostile and potentially Insafe environment when they were asked to leave for merely looking around outside an establishment, all this time being shunned away by someone who refused to speak to then directly or make any sort of eye contact.

These hostilities are dealt with respect and tolerance from the three hosts, which truly juxtaposes the aggressor in these situations.

Like all reality shows that are well-produced, these scenes should probably be taken with a grain of salt, but it doesn’t take away from the reality of the intolerance the LGBTQ community experiences on a daily basis.

Magnifying this intolerance by choosing to shoot a drag show that stages a drag show in towns within the bible belt of America is quite fearless and, if not for anything else, is worth checking out merely for the intrepidness of these three Queens and their endeavor to try to crack open the minds of privileged white folk one small town at a time.

And if that still doesn’t appeal, then surely the show can serve as a suitable stand-in for the lack of live shows as we wait for the world to reopen at the wake of the pandemic.

Catch We’re Here, which airs on HBO Go this October 11.

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