Theres a special XP recovery cd delivered with it . I'm pretty sure all should go fine.

In that case, no worries I guess.

Yay, driver horrors...
Back to Vista :|

Seriously? That's too bad.

Glad to have you as part of the Tablet Army.
Honestly, you may never go back!

Trust me, I am NOT unconciously careful with my Tablet... I take that guy to the bar all the time, it's had wine spilled on it, and it's been dropped in 3 different countries... and it still works perfectly.

One thing to try out is to use the pen instead of the mouse. What I like to do is to use the pen to tap links and lead me where I want withou using the mousepad. You'll find that it's more efficient and effective since you don't have to "find" the mouse and then "lead" it where you want... true "point 'n click" is acheived only with the pen.

No experience with the touchscreen so if yours has it, please report! I'm very curious!

It could be that they did not gave me an XP tablet edition for some reason. While vista immediately recognises the pen, XP did not. I'm not going back with XP again though, I decided to settle with Vista.



It has no finger-input touchscreen if that's what you mean, it works with a stylus pen. I have read that the finger-sensitive screens are more inaccurate. They are usually used for GPS and PDA systems as the inaccuracity is not really noticeable on those small screens. I've seen some finger-touch laptops nevertheless, but didn't want to take the risk ^^.


It works great so far, especially the ability to fold the screen up on the keyboard and be able to put it on my lap is very comfortable. And the stylus touch experience is, err, awesome .

I'm a littlebit concerned about the seemingly unstable rotation hinge. If it happen to break off within 2 years I send it straight back to Asus .

Did you get the extended warranty?
True Story: I bought my first tablet 5 years ago with a "anything goes" warranty. After 3 years my tablet "accidently" was destroyed and they sent me a new one. A year later, my tablet was in the car with me during an accident and the insurance paid for a new one, again with warranty. In conclusion, I paid 2k USD for my tablet 5 years ago... and too date I've not had to spend a penny more!
If you don't have it, get it... the warranty if offered is worth the 300 USD or so that it should cost.

Hmm, haven't got the extended waranty yet, might indeed be wise to do so. :P

I have had a touch screen for about 9 months or so, its an HP tx1000. I got it as an excuse to draw in photoshop. It is fine as far as gameplay (reminds me of the touch screen games at the bar). I run Vista Ultimate on it, 64 bit.
I have been seriously thinking of installing XP Tablet edition since I can grab it from MSDN, but if you are having issues I will probably too.

Well, after testing a few weeks, I came to the conclusion that this latop lacks alot of stuff. Partly from ASUS, partly from Vista, but both don't offer the drivers and upgrades to fix this. Anyone noticing the same problems, please tell! Then I know which are general problems (from vista or ASUS) and which one are specific for this laptop type.

Heres the list of cons so far:

• No modifyable pen buttons
• No modifyable monitor buttons
• No turning off of the automatic-screen-rotation when folding the screen down
• Mouse keeps hanging for a short second due to enabled mouse gestures and right-mouse-hold checks, making drawing awkwardly annoying after a while
• Mouse pointer movement acting different in some applications and games, more like dragging than moving
• Mouse click often not registrated in all tested applications, alot of tapping is required for one click
• Mouse gestures do not work in some applications like Photoshop, but do in others
• Mouse pointer is very inaccurate in the corners and sides of the screen, making clicking on close buttons harder than normal
• Scrollbars on the right side are very annoying for left-handed people, as the hand is constantly blocking the screen
• Selecting multiple files in explorer is much harder with a stylus than in XP, and I'm clueless as to why Vista does not have a clear white side in explorer so you can easily drag a selection box