I've been looking at the Asus UX305 for the past couple months. As it's been ~$850 the whole time, I was happy to get it for $650. Thanks for the information. Microsoft's site insists you use or create a Microsoft account to purchase from them: there's no guest option. Presumably because you will of course want that acct when you go online with their fine operating system on your new laptop. They don't accept the "+" symbol in email addresses. They don't accept spaces in their passphrases - so I guess they're only "passwords." So I took the spaces out of the passphrase ... and it was rejected because they required special characters. Unimpressive. The irony of buying a computer from the Microsoft Store so I can install Linux on it isn't lost on me. I gave them money. <sigh> I hope it was below cost and they aren't actually profiting from this. On 26 December 2015 at 16:46, William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:
I tried it at Canada Computers. Keyboard sucks, but good specs, though.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 03:50:05PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
<http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msca/en_CA/pdp/ASUS-ZenBook-UX305CA-UHM4T-Signature-Edition-Laptop/productID.327234200> <http://forums.redflagdeals.com/ms-store-650-50-gc-asus-zenbook-ux305ca-256gb-ssd-8gb-ram-qhd-1889197/>
An Asus ZenBook ultrabook for $650.
- 3200x1800 pixel screen! - Core m2-6y30 processor (not that much crunch but low power) - 8G RAM, 256G SSD - no spinning parts (no fan, no HDD)
Price so good that I and others thought it might be an error. It still seems to be available online but not in-store at Yorkdale.
Hints for perfecting Kubuntu on this machine: <https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3ia8ta/review_of_ubuntu_on_asus_ux305fa/>
-- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com