Speaking of touch, I love the touchpad. I've never used a -based Windows touchpad that was this accurate with multitouch scrolling before. In other respects the touchpad's responsiveness is excellent, too. Having two physical keys at the bottom is nice, but I think placing the biometric fingerprint scanner between them is a mistake. It makes shifting from button to button tougher, and takes up some useful space.

If the Micro Express NBL5100 I tried were operating on a 64-bit version of Windows 7, it would be a laptop that I'd get a lot of use out of. I usually don't like machines this big, but the reliable performance and precise typing sold me here. It's a shame that the company limited the laptop so severely in useful RAM.