The Asus Transformer AiO P1801, a dual-booting touchscreen all-in-one we first saw at Computex back in June and again at CES this year, has finally got a price and a release window. Engadget reports that the computer will start at $1,299 when it launches in the second quarter of this year.

While Asus has typically saved its Transformer moniker for tablets that connect to keyboard docks to become laptops, the Transformer AiO is a bit different. When the 18.4-inch 1080p touchscreen is in the stand, the computer is a Windows 8 PC, complete with dual- and quad-core Ivy Bridge CPUs, 4GB or 8GB of RAM, a dedicated Nvidia GeForce GT 730M with 2GB of graphics RAM, and up to 2TB of hard drive space. Remove the display from the stand and you've got what is essentially a gigantic Android 4.1 tablet that uses an Nvidia Tegra 3 SoC, 2GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage. The tablet can operate completely independently of the desktop, but it will also include a remote desktop application (accessed by pressing a blue button on the side of the tablet) that allows for untethered access to all the Windows 8 files and applications.

While Windows 8 itself already promises both a desktop and tablet experience, the seams between the operating system's desktop mode and tablet mode are a bit too visible for some, and there's no denying that Google Play is better stocked than the Windows Store at this point. Asus is offering the best of both ecosystems in a computer with many of the same benefits of convertible Windows 8 all-in-ones like Sony's Tap 20 or Lenovo's IdeaCentre Horizon. We'll evaluate whether the addition of a second operating system adds to or detracts from the experience in our full review.