Asus UL30A

Joined this site and bought one after reading the threads on here. Should be arriving today (14th June) as got my DHL en route message on Saturday after placing order on Friday.
 
I ordered one today after the recommendations on here - did look in a local CPW but they didn't have one, so I took all your words for it :D

I've been looking for a laptop that's compact and relatively powerful for some time now - and was quite taken by a netbook but there were just too many compromises at the end of the day - so this looks an ideal middle ground.

Thanks everyone for the guidance and comments anyway, look forward to it arriving! :)
 
you wont be disappointed :)

i tried xp in virtualbox, was surprise with speed. i was originally going for HP compaq 311c with atom but after i played my friend's acer 10" with atom i decided atom is no no for me
 
Took 15 minutes for me? Quite enjoying mine, really glad I didn't get an atom based laptop last year, the low screen res always put me off. This one is great, not heard the fan once yet and the battery life is amazing, should last me the whole of my flight to NY tomorrow I hope!
 
I think I worked out why it was taking so long - I shut it off (probably a bad move) and turned it on and it started doing windows updates - when I told it the wireless details it must have started pulling everything down.

Silly Asus! :p
 
i found big performance improvement after i completely formatted the hard drive and installed win7, dont have rubbish recovery partition anymore, i dont need them. so i got full 320GB hard drive :)

dont bother with install any rubbish asus driver/utilities software, win7 and win update detected all drivers just perfectly fine.

me very happy :D
 
Loving using mine so far - but need to get a new memory stick or DVD drive to reinstall Windows, as I can't be doing with that factory partition lark! :)

Battery life is ace and it's very easy to use. Works really well :)
 
OcUK should stock it, it's fantastic. Mine has been absolutely faultless and the battery life is great. Hibernation every few hours hasn't caused any problems either.
 
OK, I'm gonna veer off topic a little...

I have a Samsung PB-22J in my UL30A, but it's only temporary. It's not the best by a long shot, but you don't need top of the range SSD to see a massive improvement in comfort.

What you get with a SSD is not raw performance, but responsiveness. Win 7 loads under 20 seconds, applications are very snappy and responsive, coming out of standby is very quick, shutdowns are under 3 seconds. It's great for a netbook / notebook where you'll be using it sporadically, and you can switch on and off real quick, and do light work. Plus, it's a little less load on batteries, completely silent, no heat, and much more resilient to damage than hard drives.

IMO, hard drives are the bottlenecks in any computer, no matter how fast or slow the CPU is. Personally, I think it's money well spent. For a netbook / notebook, I can see a 60GB under £100 being a viable option. And hopefully, they'll come down in price (however, everyone's been saying that for a few years now).

They are great as system drives for desktops too. I've been using a Raptor 30GB for quite a while, a SSD is a natural replacement. It's a great upgrade, and one everyone should consider, alongside a CPU and GPU upgrade. Now I just need to pull my fingers out and finally install win 7 on the Vertex :)
 
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