Microsoft's Terry Myerson joined Asus, HP and Qualcomm executives on stage at the Qualcomm Technology Summit to unveil the first Always on PCs - Windows 10 laptops based on the Qualcomm 835 chipset, with a promised week of battery life.
Following Myerson was Asus' Jerry Shen, announcing the Asus NovaGo - an ultraportable 2-in-1 convertible laptop running Windows 10.
The NovaGo will have a 4X4 MIMO antenna array for high-speed, Gigabit-class 4G connectivity and will have up to 256GB of UFS 2.0 storage and 8GB of RAM.
The laptop will run the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset and, in the most exciting of developments, battery life is promised to be huge. Shen said the Asus NovaGo would deliver up to 22-hour video playback.
The price of the new machines will be very reasonable. It has a price tag of $US599 for the model with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage and $US799 for the model with 8GB of RAM and 256GB.
HP's Kevin Frost, who also unveiled a Snapdragon 835-powered Windows 10 laptop at the event: the HP Envy x2. The Envy x2 is, like the Microsoft Surface Pro, a 2-in-1 detachable with a removable keyboard cover with built in a hinge, measuring 6.9mm thin and promising 20-hour battery life.
The HP Envy x2 will be available from Spring 2018 with no word yet as to pricing. It has a 12.3in touchscreen, topped with Gorilla Glass 4, pressure-sensitive stylus support and, once again, a Snapdragon X16 modem for gigabit 4G connectivity.
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