ASUS N10J-A1 10.2-Inch Laptop (1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 Processor, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, NVidia 9300M 256MB, Vista Premium)

This is a great netbook, basically the most powerfull one they make.

I am very happy with the purchase since this little netbook will do everything it is suppose to do. I have played games on it, along with hooking it up to my big screen tv for improved view. Additionally I can play games locally with a very nice easily viewing smaller 10.2 inch screen.

My only grip is that it comes with vista instead of xp. It loads fairly fast and seems to be able to do any notebook tasks like emails, word, basic office tasks. Very light weight and comes with a soft pad case.

Hope this helps it is worth the extra 200.00 above the other ones if you want more graphics power and battery performance.

Thanks,

Purchased ASUS N10J (model A1) yet it did not include the External Optical Drive referenced within the User Manual (and also in various reviews I have read).

In the User Manual Section titled: "Using the Notebook PC", Subsection: Optical Drive (External), it explains connecting the external optical drive--> "... for use with the provided optical drive." Also, in
Section A-2 of the User Manual it lists Optional Accessories, yet the External Optical Drive is not listed.

I'm awaiting a final decision from ASUS but their initial claim is that the inclusion of the External Optical Drive is dependent upon the distributor as to whether or not it is included.

Obviously, this isn't very helpful now.