That all sounds good in theory, but the chances of this laptop working at MIMO speeds with the Draft N routers you mention are almost nil at this point.
Airgo has come out against Draft N products (since the competition at Broadcom, Atheros, and Marvell are stealing all the thunder) and won't have chips doing anything like 802.11n for months. Since the vendors doing Draft N can't get their products to work together -- even if they use the same chips at this point -- don't expect it from 3rd Gen Airgo.
ASUS is also selling a router with the 3rd Gen Airgo chip -- this laptop is really meant to be used with that.
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Airgo has come out against Draft N products (since the competition at Broadcom, Atheros, and Marvell are stealing all the thunder) and won't have chips doing anything like 802.11n for months. Since the vendors doing Draft N can't get their products to work together -- even if they use the same chips at this point -- don't expect it from 3rd Gen Airgo.
ASUS is also selling a router with the 3rd Gen Airgo chip -- this laptop is really meant to be used with that.