Just have setup an ASUS F201E with a SSD drive and Ubuntu on it. I will use that setup to test out some minimal setups and Ubuntu software.

This looks like a really good working machine.

• Fast and responsive
• Price of the complete setup together 300 Euros
• Lightweight like a Macbook Air
• I say all software free that I basically need beside special development stuff for OS X
• Dropbox works good
• LibreOffice is nice, some compatibility might come up
• web-based iCLoud on an Ubuntu Laptop might be interesting

ok

• keyboard not that good as a MacBook one
• trackpad strange if you are used to MacBook, with external mouse is ok, probably with more EMACS use this will be irrelevant 😉
• battery life not 5 hours or more but about 3 when you save
• but Hei, at least I know more or less what eats up the disk space on my machine.
• Some syncing difficult, so why is there no Evernote client for Ubuntu, the ones I tried have not made me enthusiast .
• missing Jottacloud client

So more to come.