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Had the day off work yesterday and went up to London with the Mrs., on the spur of the moment. Found myself in Harrods (like you do) 
and saw this wee beastie.. they only came out on the market the day before. I'd been looking at the previous model (701), but they have been like hen's teeth in the UK. When the salesman said they had some in stock, out came the credit card :devil:
The keyboard is a little, ahem, cramped shall we say, but it is a proper computer and all for a touch over £300. I've been playing with it today and it does pretty much everything you need for basic web surfing/email/office duties. You probably wouldn't want to play games on it, but that's not really what it's aimed at.
When I travel for work I have a works laptop that I have to drag around with me, I could never be bothered to take my own laptop as well. The Asus will slip into the same bag as my works one and I doubt I'll even notice the extra weight (it's just under a kilo).
So far, so good! Now for some tinkering to lose the Noddy user interface and see what's underneath..
Cheers,
Plug
and saw this wee beastie.. they only came out on the market the day before. I'd been looking at the previous model (701), but they have been like hen's teeth in the UK. When the salesman said they had some in stock, out came the credit card :devil:
The keyboard is a little, ahem, cramped shall we say, but it is a proper computer and all for a touch over £300. I've been playing with it today and it does pretty much everything you need for basic web surfing/email/office duties. You probably wouldn't want to play games on it, but that's not really what it's aimed at.
When I travel for work I have a works laptop that I have to drag around with me, I could never be bothered to take my own laptop as well. The Asus will slip into the same bag as my works one and I doubt I'll even notice the extra weight (it's just under a kilo).
So far, so good! Now for some tinkering to lose the Noddy user interface and see what's underneath..
Cheers,
Plug
