ASUS ET2410 Series All in One Touchscreen Desktop PC Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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this is a very exciting product from isus it is the brown box actually this
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is an Eco box which is why it's brown it contains 80% post consumer materials and
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100% recyclable cardboard which actually this is an important distinction because
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uh lots of things say made from recyclable or recycled materials but
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actually aren't made of very much recycled materials so this is the ET
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2410 which is part of a new series of all-in-one PCS from ASUS some of the
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highlights are going to be the overall build quality which obviously I haven't
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opened it yet but based on ASUS's materials they're saying it's pretty
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darn fine the metal stand which is part of the uh build quality discussion the
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updated specs so these are Next Generation or second generation standy
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Bridge processor parts and
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the Slick design of the units themselves
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now the one I have today is the et2410
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which is the 24 in actually here I'll just show you this slide because you
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guys might benefit from it so there's also the ET 2700 series which is 27 in
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includes dedicated NVIDIA GTX Graphics
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it has a blu-ray combo drive and 10-point multitouch okay the 2400 is
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multitouch and has this one hold on let me just check the spec of our unit
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anyway it's a higher spec than than the 22in model which is the most value
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oriented option out of the ones available so here let's have a look at the spec of our unit so this is a core
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i5 2310 so this is the higher end one it
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has Windows 7 Home Premium 6 gigs of RAM a 1 tbyte Drive Wireless N with
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Bluetooth and it is a 23.6 in touchcreen as I mentioned before it uses the
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integrated Intel Graphics which isn't necessarily a bad thing because Intel
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Graphics ever since they released sandybridge
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aren't nearly
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as much of a bottleneck as they used to
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be all right so why don't we have a look
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at the included accessories first before
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we take a closer look at the all-in-one so here we go
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included accessories we have a wireless mouse all right thanks for that ASUS
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it's got kind of a rubberized grippy feel to it all right's throw that in
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there we have a monstrous power brick remember this is not intended to be like
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super portable so it's fine that it's a little on the heavy side there for size
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comparison is the iPhone 4 there you go guys all right next we have a power
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cable which plugs into that power brick so I'll take that out and that's it for
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the things in here kind of a neat shaped box there you go see has kind of a shape
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to it and finally I think this is a keyboard yep we got a keyboard
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as well as a dongle which is for
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something oh you know what it's probably for the mouse and keyboard and batteries
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for the mouse and keyboard so here let's have a quick look at the keyboard itself
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wow it's quite heavy actually it doesn't feel like those uh sort of
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more less expensively manufactured ones
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that often come with these all-in-one type units it's got a little bit of flex
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to it but the overall feel is quite nice it's got some weight to it which is nice
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to see it's a chicklet style keyboard um nothing nothing particularly out you
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know outrageous to do with the layout here so it's got a nice long shift key
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it's got a full length tab full length backspace and full length enter so
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that's really good to see because it means that you will be able to reach all
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of the keys the way that you're normally used to we got a warranty card
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included all right and then next we have
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a quick start guide which is right here and seems to
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be fairly straightforward in terms of the steps included adjust the angle plug
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in the thing push the thing plug in that thing B those things to that thing and
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you're ready to go all right give me a sec to get this unpacked and then we'll
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have a look at the unit so here we are experiencing the setup process it
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actually comes with a variety of different languages that you can choose
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including uh Italiano France
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espol okay I have no idea okay Portuguese and nether
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Dutch Dutch I guess that must be Dutch okay so we are in
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Canada and syncing up the uh keyboard and the mouse was actually very very
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straightforward use a United States uh oh time and currency whoops no no
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English English Canada keyboard layout us there we go okay so once we're booted
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up I'll I'll I'll get this going here here we are in the setup process
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and you want to go ahead and accept the license terms which are required to use
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Windows and this one I'm not so sure about but apparently the Bing Bar I am
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required to accept that license in order to uh keep going here so actually hold
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on let's see will it let me go no I have to I have to install the Bing Bar in
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order to get booted up here so I'm going to just hold on to my
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cheat sheet here because that makes life a little bit easier for me so let's have a look at some of the design features
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that the et2410 features so first thing let's have a look at the overall
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thickness so the thickness is actually 6 CM so what's that 60 mm not bad at all
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actually here is an iPhone this is cameraman's iPhone you can tell cuz my
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Wicked uh carbon fiber sticker isn't on the back okay so there you go that's the
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overall thickness of the unit and then the size this is a 23.6 in 1080P LED
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back lit WID screen so I'm just going to show you guys sort of the approximate
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size against the iPhone which maybe isn't that useful I think everyone knows
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how big a 20 24in class monitor is at this point in time okay so let's go
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ahead and move around to let's do the back first well it goes ahead and
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installs drivers for me so there's a couple different things here first there's the metal stand so the metal
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stand allows you to position it on the table wherever you so desire okay it's
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got rubber feet on the bottom so it's not going to move it's actually fairly
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hard to to rock back and forth so it's not going to go anywhere and then you
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can also adjust the tilt of the monitor
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or the all-in-one I guess I shouldn't say monitor because it is an all-in-one
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and it is a monitor but more on that later um all the way from pointing a
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little bit face down to all the way back up like this so if you're actually
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sitting quite a bit above it like on a bar stool you'll still be fairly
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comfortable using it so it's got a pretty good angle overall there okay in
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terms of input and output options let's start on the side here this looks like
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an optical drive but bam it's not an optical drive it's stealth to inputs and
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uh outputs rather well both Okay so
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we've got two super speed USB 3 ports an
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EA port an SD slot headphones and
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microphone jacks all on the side of the unit for ease of access now around the
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back for more of your permanent fixtures we've got an additional three USB ports
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one of which we're using right now for the dongle for the included wireless
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keyboard and mouse we've got gigabit Ethernet now this is cool check this out
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HDMI out which is great if you wanted to add a second monitor HDMI and VGA in
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which is pretty darn cool if say for example okay here here's a US scenario
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for this you know what I'm going to come up with two right off the top of my head here one is let's say you have a
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boardroom like we do at ncx and you don't have a projector in your boardroom
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like we don't at NC and you use an Allin one PC because it's very convenient with
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the touchcreen and all that like we have at NCI let's say someone brought a
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laptop and they wanted to do a presentation instead of unplugging your
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allinone and moving it and rearranging everything what you could actually do is
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you could just plug it right into the HDMI or the VGA in on your in one PC in
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your boardroom and you could display an output from the uh from the laptop easy
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awesome and here's another scenario let's say your all-in-one PC is outdated
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we're talking like 3 four 5 years from now you know what you need to do the
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latest things with your computer it's not fast enough anymore that's cool it
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doesn't matter that it's not upgradeable this has always been a beef of mine with
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all-in-one PCS is that you can't upgrade them well now at least it's not a
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throwaway now it can still be a monitor and you have that additional computer
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functionality should you so require it maybe you have the computer on at all
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times for something else maybe now it's a it's like a dedicated download box or
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something like that but you can use the monitor for a higher powered PC right
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here is a cable management spot which the cameraman evidently missed when he
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was plugging in the power and finally we have a Kensington lock right about
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here and I think that pretty much does it for the back so let's move around to
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the other side I'm just going to go ahead and turn it all the way around for
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you guys here and there we go I don't think this is
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going oh yeah it did work okay there you have it so that's a DVD multi multi
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reader writer CD also multireader writer
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the higher end model comes with Blu-ray but this particular one does not and
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then finally let's have a look at the front so on the front we have our
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microphone in we've got our webcam we have as I mentioned before
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1080p LED backlit screen which is
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multi-touch and has no flex to it this
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is critical because instead of using a flimsy plastic layer that has that
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ripple effect and just is generally not
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very desirable we've got a nice solid
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feeling display surface that has no uh
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no Ripple that you can see on flat backgrounds and just looks great and
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when you press on it you actually don't see any discoloration of the screen
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Around Your Finger which is really nice as well cuz I hate that about some multi
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uh some touch screens when you touch them and they just go all discolored and
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look and look horrible so let's go around to the bottom of it here if you
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just want to come down here check out the bottom we've got our power button
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here our hard drive indicator we have a volume control here a menu button volume
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other more different control here and a mode button give me two seconds here
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guys so we're booted up into Windows now I'm going ahead and restarting okay the
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program that's not allowing us to restart is one that was going to automatically restart it in 20 seconds
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so I'm not too worried about that along the Bottom bar here we have our power
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button we also have our oh no I already said that we have a speaker bar along
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the very very bottom with our assus logo here and we also have a Windows 7
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sticker Core i5 energy star and DTS
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surround sensation Ultra PC so let me just see if I'm missing anything uh you
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know what let's have a look at the cooling so the exhaust fan is actually
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coming out of here you can see a long heat pipe that goes through a very wide
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it actually goes from here to here um
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fin array that is going to be cooling the CPU which if you guys remember is
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also the GPU and let me just see if there's
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anything that I am missing here okay I already mentioned it is a
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multi-touch I already mentioned it doubles as a monitor oh yeah it has wall
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mount capability so if you pull this guy off you can actually buy a wall mount
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from auss and you can use it as a PO display for example so that's kind of
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neat as well uh last but not least
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least oh cool comes with ASUS web
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storage as well that's actually something that they're bundling in with a few of their products these days
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including the EAD Transformer so there's
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uh something that I had missed before
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and okay let's just take it in then go ahead and go around to the other side
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we've actually finally got it booted up fully here and uh running in the proper
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resolution so do I want to use the assus screen saver not particularly oh yeah I
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really like this screen actually this is pretty good so let's go ahead and launch
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e- paint here you know what I really want to do is I want to set up the
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Windows 8 preview on this thing so that we can really check out how a proper
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properly touchscreen optimized OS is going to run on a machine like this
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uh so we can oh okay I'm clearly Doing
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It Wrong let's use that and draw Green
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woo oh that's very responsive actually
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look at that I wonder how many how many multi- touches do we get oh I think this
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app only supports uh single touch let's see yeah single touch for this
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particular application but it's very very responsive and very very smooth you
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can see how long it takes to trace after me that's not bad at all it's a very
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compelling looking little setup too very clean because it comes with all the
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wireless peripherals that you're going to need and I think that pretty much
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covers everything I wanted to say for now until we do a full NC Tech tips
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