ASUS U / UX Series laptops hands-on

Maybe it's just because we visited that heart-stealing Eee PC 1008HA right before these buggers, but for whatever reason, ASUS' new U / UX lineup just didn't seem as sexy in person as they did in the press shots. We will say, however, that the light-up trackpad was one of the more whiz-bang things we've seen in awhile, though we're still skeptical of its actual utility. Curiously enough, one of the models on display even lacked letters on the chiclet style keyboard, and while we know good and well it won't ship like that, we were kind of fond of it... in a weird, nerd-type way. At any rate, feel free to dig in to the gallery below, and be sure to mind the ASUS rep waxing the fingerprints from the bezel -- you'll be doing lots of that should you select one of these.

ASUS U / UX Series laptops hands-on

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 6:29AM]

I'm not sure how for others, but for me these laptops look sexy enough :). Very slim!

[KC Posted Mar 4th 2009 6:53AM]

Would love a few more details about these machines. In the last post you said they were 15.6" laptops but clearly from the gallery both the U and UX series are available in several sizes. I like the U series with the numeric keypad but if it's bigger then 15/16" it's a deal breaker because I actually take my laptop outside of my house. It looks from the pictures that the U with the num-pad is the biggest one in the series and that worries me a little because I have a VAIO FW series laptop and I like it, but miss the num-pad and don't want to go with a huge AW series. So if ASUS has made the U series about the same size as my FW but with a num-pad the FW is history.

Can you let us know please what the different sizes each line is available in and

[mwub Posted Mar 4th 2009 8:11AM]

Aren't you missing pictures from the UX series?
As far as I can tell these are only the U Laptops you show.
The UX series look much better.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 9:16AM]

Dear Engadget, How thing? How heavy? How quiet?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 9:16AM]

'How Thin', rather. Silly me.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 1:30PM]

YO guys, check out this link: http://www.heise.de/cebit/bilderstrecke/561/0/nt520afd
Thats the UX, and it looks amazing!! I believe the first 3 pics are UX. I want one bad!