Asus ZenBook (UX31E)
My regular ol’ laptop is a casualty of a bad CMOS battery (and maybe of worse) so, in desperation as I do at least half of all my writing outside the house, I acquired a replacement.
I got the ASUS ZenBook one of the new breed of Ultrabooks. It’s got one of the new Solid State Drives (SSD) which makes it blindingly fast to startup. Ooooh, I’m in love.
On the downside, while small and incredibly lightweight (and cute), it will not (snif!) run modo, my favorite 3D software. (That may actually be a good thing).
My kidlet and I definitely agree that this is the sort of ultrabook to take to classes and on the sort of European trekking we’ve both been thinking of doing (separately, kidlet would die before backpacking with Daddy).