Asus Taichi
“Wait a second, isn’t the screen on the wrong side of that lid?” It’s a perfectly reasonable statement when introduced to Asus’s strangest convertible, the Taichi. Instead of figuring out how to convert a laptop into a tablet, Asus simply added a second panel to the outside. This way, you could keep the traditional clamshell form factor and enter tablet mode the moment you close the lid. It wasn’t as elegant as, say, the Lenovo Yoga, but the Taichi worked.
At least, to an extent. What you’d assume to be a potential problem for the Taichi, battery life, was indeed its biggest fault. Also, this laptop/tablet contraption arrived before modern software drivers made Windows touchpads usable, and unfortunately, the one on the Taichi was terrible. Asus phased out the dual-screen design for many years before reintroducing it in a different form with the ZenBook Pro Duo.
