Earlier today, the much anticipated Black Friday sales kicked off with mind-blowing offers on e-commerce sites like Amazon and Aliexpress. One offer that stole our attention is the productivity-focused Detachable tablet offering by Asus.

With the global pandemic going on, demand for tablets is at an all-time high, be it for office use like attending meetings or taking classes and lectures online. At such a time of need, you can save a whopping $110 on the Asus Chromebook Detachable CM3 (Tablet) thanks to the Black Friday deal on Amazon. The stylus and detachable keyboard featuring Asus Chromebook Detachable CM3, which usually retails for $369, is available at a jaw-dropping $259 for the day!

Specs and features

The Chrome-OS-powered Tablet comes with a detachable keyboard, stand cover, and “garaged” USI stylus. The device features a generous 10.5 inches of screen real estate, as well as a respectable resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. It weighs a wee 1.12 pounds thanks to its razor-thin aluminum body at 7.9mm.

Under the hood, the device houses a MediaTek 8183 processor, 4GB RAM, and 64 gigs of internal storage space for a smooth experience. The Asus Chromebook CM3 is powered by a Lithium-ion battery able to carry it through 12 hours of continuous usage on a single charge and also features a 45W power brick. Some other features include a USB-C port and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

The ASUS Chromebook Detachable CM3 is available at Amazon for $259 through Amazon’s Black Friday sale. Click this link to check out the product on Amazon.

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ASUS has announced a new Chrome OS tablet, increasing the options of those who are interested in this form factor by one. The new ASUS Chromebook Detachable CM3 arrives as a competitor to the Lenovo Chromebook Duet, but is it a better choice?

The ASUS Chromebook Detachable CM3 has an aluminum unibody with a matte finish. It is 7.9mm thick and comes with a stain-repellent cover that gives it a classy look. There is only one color variant available called Mineral Gray.

ASUS’s Chrome OS tablet has a 10.5-inch screen with a 16:10 aspect ratio and a 1920 x 1200 resolution. There are thick bezels around the display which is not uncommon for a lot of tablets.

Powering the ASUS Chromebook Detachable CM3 is MediaTek’s MT8183 processor which is practically the Helio P60T but specially designed for entry-level Chromebooks. It is an octa-core chipset with four Cortex-A73 cores and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 2.0GHz. It also has an Arm Mali-G72 MP3 GPU clocked at 800MHz.

The processor is paired with 4GB of RAM, and buyers will be able to pick between a 64GB version or a 128GB version. Just like Lenovo’s own tablet, this too is missing a MicroSD card slot, so you can’t expand the storage.

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What it does have that the Duet doesn’t is an audio jack and a USI stylus with a silo for storing it. When inserted in the slot, the stylus automatically charges and ASUS says that a 15-second charge will provide 45 minutes of use. Lenovo’s USI Pen has to be purchased separately and it costs $39, though it is much thicker and feels like a regular pen. It also uses a replaceable battery.

The ASUS Chromebook Detachable CM3 has a keyboard that connects via four pogo pins at the bottom of the tablet. The keyboard has an ErgoLift design, a 1.5m key travel, and a trackpad. The stand cover, which can also be removed can be adjusted to up to 90° when in landscape mode. It can also be used to prop up the tablet in portrait mode.

There is an 8MP camera on the back of the tablet while the front camera is a 2MP sensor. ASUS has packed a 27Whr battery into the tablet which it says should last up to 12 hours on a single charge. A 45W charger is included in the box for charging. The tablet has dual-band WiFi, Bluetooth 4.2, and a USB-C port.

The ASUS Chromebook Detachable CM3 is priced at $350 for the 64GB version and $370 for the 128GB version. Both are currently listed as Coming Soon on the official ASUS store. ASUS states that there is a 1-year Free 100GB Google One trial which expires from Google by the 31st of January 2022.

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