This laptop is LIGHT. It only weighs about 5 pounds or so. Compared with my wife’s laptop of almost 15? No contest! Since this is a tablet PC and is meant to have the screen touched, you’ll want to carry a clean microfiber cloth with it so you can keep it tidy or else you won’t be able to see past the fingerprints.

The exterior casing is somewhat prone to scratches, but it’s not nearly as bad as the back of my ipod; which gets scratched by being looked at. Hell, the ipod got scratched being taken out of the bubble wrap it was packed in. But it feels good and I know they sacrificed some of the durability in the casing for the density of the material (ie. weight). I’ve had laptops that i felt would be completely unharmed by a 70-foot drop off a building, but I really hesitate not placing this one lightly on the desk.

But despite those issues, it’s a well-made laptop. Even the swivel monitor works without a hitch (just don’t swing it the wrong way).

This entry was written by Blaine LinehancloseAuthor: Blaine Linehan Name: Blaine Linehan
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About: I was born in Maine, and I’ll be a Maniac til I die. I’ve lived in several states, been in several countries, and lived outside the US so far (I’m not thirty yet). Right now I live in Kansas with my wife, Jana, and our four month old daughter, Bailey. I have a degree in Information Systems Technology from Penn State University and another degree in Computer Information Systems from Central Pennsylvania College. I started as a history major at the University of Central Florida but found that very very boring. So now I’m working at the Wichita State University here in Kansas doing what I love to do – expanding my computer horizons and deciding which of my 5 monitors I should work on next.See Authors Posts (11) and posted on 2009-09-22 @ 15:07:44-0400 and filed under Reviews. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.