Pros: This thing is incredible. It is absolutely the perfect mix of power, price, and portability. Great battery life when playing games. (2 hours on low end stuff a la starcraft and rise of nations)

Cons: Gets a little warm (to be expected), speakers are just ok, asus has a lot of neat but not very useful software (face recognition, security manager) installed. No dedicated volume buttons, but if you can hit the fn key its no big. Really all of these should not keep you from buying this laptop. Its great, and i think im in love.

Overall Review: I love the way the ports on this thing are laid out. USB on every side but the front, and even better, nothing on the front that sticks out at you. Also, asus has this great selection tool that controls wifi and bluetooth on and off, actually really neat.