[GTALUG] great boxing week ultrabook deal

[Giles Orr]

I've been looking at the Asus UX305 for the past couple months.  As
it's been ~$850 the whole time, I was happy to get it for $650.
Thanks for the information.

Microsoft's site insists you use or create a Microsoft account to
purchase from them: there's no guest option.  Presumably because you
will of course want that acct when you go online with their fine
operating system on your new laptop.

They don't accept the "+" symbol in email addresses.  They don't
accept spaces in their passphrases - so I guess they're only
"passwords."  So I took the spaces out of the passphrase ... and it
was rejected because they required special characters.  Unimpressive.

The irony of buying a computer from the Microsoft Store so I can
install Linux on it isn't lost on me.  I gave them money.  <sigh>  I
hope it was below cost and they aren't actually profiting from this.

On 26 December 2015 at 16:46, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> I tried it at Canada Computers.  Keyboard sucks, but good specs, though.
>
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 03:50:05PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> <http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msca/en_CA/pdp/ASUS-ZenBook-UX305CA-UHM4T-Signature-Edition-Laptop/productID.327234200>
>> <http://forums.redflagdeals.com/ms-store-650-50-gc-asus-zenbook-ux305ca-256gb-ssd-8gb-ram-qhd-1889197/>
>>
>> An Asus ZenBook ultrabook for $650.
>>
>> - 3200x1800 pixel screen!
>> - Core m2-6y30 processor (not that much crunch but low power)
>> - 8G RAM, 256G SSD
>> - no spinning parts (no fan, no HDD)
>>
>> Price so good that I and others thought it might be an error.  It
>> still seems to be available online but not in-store at Yorkdale.
>>
>> Hints for perfecting Kubuntu on this machine:
>> <https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3ia8ta/review_of_ubuntu_on_asus_ux305fa/>

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