What's good about it? Well, it's a nice looking stylish machine, not as sleek as the MBA but good nonetheless. The keyboard is superb, a full sized chicklet style with absolutely no flex - a joy to use. The screen is nice and bright offering a 1366 x 768 res. Viewing angles are quite slender but good enough for me.
Battery life is about 6 hours with web browsing and wifi on, will be less if you're doing intensive stuff but pretty good compared to other laptops.
It sports the AMD Fusion APU, a combined CPU and GPU providing more performance than Atom and NEO CPU's. I'm perfectly able to use Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop 5 which you couldn't do on a netbook. I've loaded Office 2007, viewed 720 & 1080P video and all is fine. Overall it's very responsive and allows me to do everything I want to do, but then I don't play resource intensive games.
The front facing Altec Lansing speakers are good, providing decent full bodied sound, in fact, probably the best sound I've experienced on a laptop. Connectivity is good and beats the MBA with 3 USB 2.0's, HDMI, VGA, SD Card Reader, Bluetooth, Wifi and Webcam.
It weighs in at 1.6kg which is more than you expect when you see its A4 form factor, but this gives it some substance and sense of quality. It doesn't feel plasticky at all and is all very refined. The Trackpad takes some getting used to and you might be better off using a wireless mouse, but in the scheme of things this is a minor quibble. Windows 7 Home Premium 32 is the installed OS and the machine comes with 3 GB Ram and a 320 GB 7200 HDD. Shame they didn't throw in 64 bit, coz could've expanded RAM uoto the 2 slot maximum of 8GB.
It runs cool, no more burning your lap with a laptop and the fan is quiet and although other reviews have flagged fan noise as an issue - I've not come across this.
Here are some Web reviews which give better detail:
Laptop Magazine
Engadget
The best thing about this laptop though is the price - for a little over £300 you get all of the above, fantastic value. So for someone who wants a small ultraportable, that can handle most software, can be put in a rucksack and provide plenty of storage and performance to handle photographic editing, music and films on the go, then this is it - who needs an MBA!!
