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ASUS ExpertBook B3 Detachable Is A No-Nonsense Convertible Laptop For Just S$999, With A Caveat

The ASUS ExpertBook B3 Detachable (B3000) convertible laptop hits Singapore stores today, packed with features that business users and students in schools would find useful. The best part is it retails for just S$999 if you skip all the additional accessories.

Though ASUS calls the ExpertBook B3 Detachable a laptop, it really is more appropriate to call it a tablet that converts into a laptop (explained below).

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The ExpertBook B3 Detachable is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 chip and a Qualcomm Adreno GPU 618 mobile graphics card. It holds an onboard 8 GB LPDDR4 memory and an onboard 128 GB eMMC NAND flash memory storage, and runs Windows 11 OS.

It has a 10.5-inch WUXGA IPS-NB multitouch screen display with a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200. The screen outputs an average of 320 nits in brightness on its LCD backlight panel and is capable of displaying up to 87% of the NTSC colour gamut. It is TÜV Rheinland-certified for low blue-light emissions, which means your eyes are less likely to be harmed from long hours staring at the screen.

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As you can tell from the specifications, this ExpertBook is designed to minimise power use to let you push the laptop through a whole day’s use. You can play some low-requirement games on it, but it is really meant for productivity on the go, such as videoconferencing, taking notes, reading emails, as well as streaming movies and possibly playing games from the cloud.

It is also very portable, weighing in at just below 600g and measuring just 9mm in thickness. And like most ASUS devices, it looks pretty nice with a smooth, modern look.

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The ExpertBook B3 can be used as a tablet or converted into a conventional laptop, with support for both horizontal and vertical views. To perform more like a conventional laptop, you’ll likely need to include the optional ExpertBoard keyboard for touch typing and the optional ExpertStand to keep the screen propped up.

And if you like to use a stylus for drawing or note-taking, you could add that in as well. The good thing is it has an inbuilt stylus holder so at least you are unlikely to lose it. The holder also functions as a stylus charger, which charges pretty fast — 15 seconds in it will give you enough juice for 45 minutes of use.

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The ExpertBook also comes with two cameras, a user-facing 5MP camera for videoconferencing and a forward-facing 13MP camera for capturing high-resolution photos and videos. It has dual microphones and two speakers for your videoconferencing use, while also employing AI to reduce noise for your calls and reduce artefacts in your image captures.

It has a dual-band 2×2 WiFi 5 (802.11ac) that runs on Bluetooth 5.1, for strong WiFi connectivity and low power consumption. The laptop has just one USB-C 3.0 port and one 3.5mm combo audio jack, again going with the minimalist approach to its design. The whole package is powered by a 38Wh lithium-polymer battery, which ASUS states will let the laptop lasts a long time though it did not specify the expected performance detail.

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So all in all, the ASUS ExpertBook B3 Detachable has the parts to perform what it is designed to do, which is enabling business users to work from home and students to connect to lectures remotely, and at a pretty low starting price. Versatility is its biggest selling point. The elephant in the room is that to make that actually work, you’ll need to tack on some much-needed accessories as finger typing and swiping on a screen isn’t the fastest way to get your work done.

It is also not clear how much these accessories would cost as they aren’t available in the online store when we checked, with no option to include them in the purchase as well.

Still, if the lack of a detachable keyboard, stand and a stylus doesn’t faze you, the ASUS ExpertBook B3 Detachable (B3000) is available now for S$999 at the ASUS exclusive store in Bugis as well as its online store. For enterprise customers, you’ll want to contact the ASUS Business Team ([email protected]).