Asus U80V - 14in Laptop Hands-On Comments

For starters having the touchpad in the middle makes it equally difficult or easy for us left-handers.

And if it's a Synaptics pad then you can very easily tune accidental palm touches out in the driver. And have been able to for a number of years. The driver that enabled it appeared about a year into my ownership of a Dell Inspiton 7000. This had a PII-300 in it so quite a while ago. IIRC Alps' driver has a similar feature.

The touch pad is an Elan model. It also does support palm-registration.

The reviewer kept banging on about the design but glossy black is a classic and acceotable finish. In my opinion, this a classic and understated look for both home users and professionals who don't want a gaudy HP/Dell print.

Clearly _radditz_ has not seen just HOW glossy this particular Asus line is...

http://www.engadget.com/photos/asus-bringing-1008ha-ux50-and-u80v-laptops-stateside/2013366/

I'm not against glossy finishes in general, but too much is too much...