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so we have kind of a unique unboxing today this laptop was already open when I got it so we're gonna do a Reebok cing so let's start with everything about it because that's what we have in front of us this is the assuit UL 30 a this is from their thin and light series so I guess why don't we just look at how thin and light it is now the first thing that I noticed about it is that while it is very thin impressively thin it's not actually that light a soos has made some compromises on this notebook in order to deliver the all-day computing experience so this notebook actually has an 8 cell battery in it so besides the fairly decent spec you've got a Core 2 Duo su 7,300 13.3 inch screen 3 gigs of ram as well as a 250 gig hard drive wireless-n all of that good stuff you have also got considerable battery life to go along with it that's great another way that they've achieved this long battery life on their thin and light series of notebooks is by using a green LED panel so that's going to reduce your power consumption a little bit and it's also going to give you a better quality screen so Zeus talks about a couple other things on the front of their box here first thing is they've got HD vision sticker here ok then they have Centrino inside sticker over here then they have that it has ddr3 up here iSchool palm rest that's kind of interesting so what they're basically saying is that this part of the notebook where you actually rest your hands when you're typing doesn't get that hot because that's a big problem that I've run into with notebooks in the past is that it'll have like some kind of hot component sort of right around here and so whenever you're typing your palm starts to get sweaty and it gets kind of gross it's not not that great ok so let me see ESU's is also saying that they've got health assurance with this notebook ultra low electromagnetic interference interesting ok so why don't we have a look at the keyboard like most premium notebooks these days it's using a chiclet style keyboard which while I'm not the biggest fan of everyone in there dog seems to seems to like these so Who am I to judge they've got a very very sensible layout to it here you can see that all of the keys are in there correct and full-sized locations for easy access of someone with relatively small hands I hate seeing a half-length backspace key because I can't I can't hit it over there and actually keep my hands on the keys so they've got nothing unusual or stupid on there and why don't we have a look at the screen itself so as we mentioned before it is a 13.3 inch screen I don't actually have wireless but I'm booted up into a Seuss's Express gate technology so that is pretty much a way of just getting right into whatever it is you need to do so we can want the web browser and you don't actually have to boot into Windows 7 Professional which comes pre-loaded on this notebook so it's kind of cool if you have your wireless set up then it'll actually work but it's a little Linux based thing so you can use Skype chat online games music web I've never actually used express gate before even though I've had lots of products that have featured it so yeah this is the first time I've seen it interesting okay why don't we have a look at what this notebook has in terms of connectivity so I'm gonna go ahead and close it on the cameraman there on the top first of all we've got garlic kind of a brushed aluminum sort of finish and I took off a little sticker thing you've got a silver sort of an embedded Asus logo that looks really really sharp so this is what you'll look what it'll look like when you're using it and people are looking at you see looks all stylish and thin very nice okay so let's go and have a look at what we've got in terms of connectivity first of all you've got an air vent here so the fan is exceptionally quiet I don't think that's realistically gonna bother anybody next you've got VGA more importantly you've got HDMI video out along with one USB port on this side then moving around to the front you've got a couple of what appear to be either speakers or air vents hold on give me a second here yeah those are gonna be speakers up on the front here then around on the other side we've got an SD card reader you've got your headphone jack microphone jack two more USB ports Gigabit Ethernet and a power in so the conductivity is actually a lot like a netbook in that you've got sort of three USB ports your network your sound and that's mostly it now one thing that have at it obviously is the HDMI port and that's huge but what you've noticed already hopefully is missing is an optical drive so you will need to use an external optical drive if you want to use any sort of DVD or CD media with this particular notebook now I'm gonna go ahead and turn it off oh the cameraman is looking at the multi-touch touchpad good job cameraman so that's a multi-touch touchpad so you can use gestures it's looks like up to three fingers which is pretty cool okay so why don't we take the battery out because when you're holding this notebook you can easily tell that by far the heaviest part of it is this side right here so as seuss in order to achieve the 12 hour battery life that they've got with this notebook has designed the battery to be a huge amount of the actual size of the notebook so let me see how many watt hours so this is a 5,600 milliamp hour battery rated at 15 volts if that matters to anybody and okay let me see what do we have on the bottom here so on the bottom you've got easy access panels to access the hard drive or the RAM and Wireless upgrade module so you can see the two sodium's that are installed right here and I'm gonna go ahead and assume the wireless is over there somewhere in here is the hard drive so now we can actually get along to the accessories included with this laptop so I'm not gonna bother putting it back stuff like oh actually this is interesting so those who's talks about their global warranty so 360 degree notebook service so you got a two-year global warranty that means you buy it in Canada you move to Europe you're still covered a lot of companies won't do that two-way overnight shipping for your for your 360 degree notebook service and then it also includes if you register within 60 days of buying your notebook one year of accidental damage warranty which covers drops fire spills and power surges that's pretty awesome to be including without any additional purchase on on their notebooks some and cardboard things back on the laptop itself here if I could make them fit really well why don't we just open up the box which I appear to have lost there it is okay so let's see what we find inside here I'm going to go ahead and guess that yes this is a power adapter so the power adapter is very very small so since this is using Intel's lowest power CPUs other than the atom you're only using a 2.1 amp power adapter so this thing is just just tiny very convenient to carry around because the last thing I want to see when I buy a low-power thin and late notebook is a huge bulky power brick that I have to carry around with it that's just stupid so you got a power cable to plug into your power brick and then what else do we have inside here you've got a Windows 7 recovery media ok so they're not using a recovery partition but they're in actually including a DVD with 64-bit windows 7 that's pretty nice and then they've got some applications that you can use a sous DVD power to go media show then you have drivers and utilities on yet another disc and finally a recovery DVD ROM so no I'm not sure which one of these is the recovery DVD and which one of them is the recovery DVD but this one's sealed so maybe this is Windows 7 to XP alternative program oh I see so this must be Windows XP there you go so this maybe was back when they were doing the windows 7 downgrade or maybe they're still doing it I don't know okay next we have uncompromising performance when it less than one inch ultra slim so this is a little sticker that was on the screen when this was new and sealed then we have a notebook warranty card which is has the registration information that you can cut out and send to a sous to get your one year of accidental damage warranty Express gate manual so that tells you how to use that software that I couldn't figure out how to use right off the bat there so it boots up in only a couple seconds and then you can do all of this stuff so you can pause that if you want to read it I'm not gonna read it out okay next we've got a cable tie so you can use that to manage the the cables for your plugs okay and then last but not least you have an assist users manual and the user's manual includes useful things like a picture of a notebook as well as some safety precautions and how to plug in your notebook PC okay oh it also it shows you some of the gestures that you can use for your multi-touch interface that's pretty nice okay well thank you for 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