You can't use it on your HDTV in your living room, because you'll need to have an HDMI cable tethered from your keyboard/computer to the flat panel.
You really gain nothing in terms of space on your desktop, because you'll need to get external drives to make this thing fully functional. And again, lots of cables between this and the drives and display.
Really, the only use for this thing is if you want the power of a netbook with a full-size desktop monitor. I remember the TI-99/4A, Commodore 64/128, Amiga 600 days, and let me tell you: It wasn't really that great having the keyboard built onto the desktop computer. All that meant was that when your keyboard broke or got cruddy, you had to send the whole computer in for repair/cleaning instead of just buying a new damned keyboard.
And I won't even mention the details of people spilling drinks on their keyboards and what it could mean for this thing. I love ASUS, but this seems pointless.
"I'm a college student looking for a new laptop, but almost all of my media I receive digitally. I'm looking for a laptop, not a netbook, without an optical drive, and budget sensitive. The optical drive will just be a waste of space, when I can have thinner laptop. What's out there?"
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This seems clunky to me.
You can't use it on your HDTV in your living room, because you'll need to have an HDMI cable tethered from your keyboard/computer to the flat panel.
You really gain nothing in terms of space on your desktop, because you'll need to get external drives to make this thing fully functional. And again, lots of cables between this and the drives and display.
Really, the only use for this thing is if you want the power of a netbook with a full-size desktop monitor. I remember the TI-99/4A, Commodore 64/128, Amiga 600 days, and let me tell you: It wasn't really that great having the keyboard built onto the desktop computer. All that meant was that when your keyboard broke or got cruddy, you had to send the whole computer in for repair/cleaning instead of just buying a new damned keyboard.
And I won't even mention the details of people spilling drinks on their keyboards and what it could mean for this thing. I love ASUS, but this seems pointless.
Wait... WIRELESS HDMI?!?!
Does that exist? Is that a real thing? `Never heard of it. Seems like it would be crap.
Yes, it's real, and from what I've seen on a few other gadgets, it's awesome.
That little detail might have perhaps changed your opinion of the niche this is going into?