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In a way, though, that's just inside baseball: to someone who's never played with an ASUS laptop before, they should be just fine: even if the keys are a bit flatter, they still offer more travel than what you'll find on most competing ultraportables. We were also relieved to find that although this is a fairly small system, ASUS kept most of the major keys intact -- Enter, Backspace and the right Shift key are all amply sized, though the Caps Lock and Tab buttons are admittedly small.

Additionally, the buttons have a pleasantly soft finish that makes them a comfortable resting spot for the fingers. As a side note, the backlighting is adjustable, which we can't say of every laptop we've ever reviewed. Initially, we ran into lots of problems with the cursor stopping short on the screen before it got where we wanted it to go. At one point, as a matter of fact, we were writing this review in SkyDrive, and an errant touchpad gesture caused us to close out of the site, losing some of our work in the process.

It wasn't as bad as that time we were testing the original UX31 and almost threw it against a wall, but it was close. As you may have surmised, though, we've made peace with it. Mostly, anyway. Even after re-installing the driver, the cursor can still be tough to drag, but we can reliably scroll with two fingers, as well as use pinch-to-zoom to magnify text. As we've often found with Windows 8 laptops, some of the smoothest gestures are those that are native to the OS.

That is to say, we had an especially easy time swiping in from the right to expose the Charms Bar and swiping in from the left to toggle through open applications. Obviously, using the TAICHI as a regular notebook or even a tablet doesn't require any instruction -- you can either close the lid or, uh, not.

You will need to do a little configuring to either mirror your desktop on the outer screen or enter the dual-display mode. Just press the fourth button from the right on the Function row of the keyboard -- the key with the dual-display graphic on it. That'll launch Taichi Home, a full-screen app that also shows things like battery capacity and shortcuts for mastering things like Windows 8 gestures.

In any case, just tap that Function button again to cycle through the different modes. By default, the TAICHI enters tablet mode as soon as you shut the lid, but you can lock the settings so that that doesn't happen. That is to say, if you have the machine set to mirror your desktop and then you shut the lid, it'll go back to regular notebook mode when you lift the lid again, with nothing showing up on the rear screen. It would be nice to control that, though ultimately we think ASUS made the right call in designing the TAICHI this way: can you imagine the battery drain if there was a chance the exterior display could be left on accidentally?

Now about those modes. We can definitely see a use for mirroring. If you're hosting a presentation on your laptop, it'd be nice to show off a page in IE10 or play a slideshow in PowerPoint without having to turn your laptop around for others in the room.

This way, you get a good view and so does everybody else. What's disappointing, though, is that dual-display mode only works with specific applications like PowerPoint, which allows you to display, say, Presenter View on just one screen. We're not sure what else we were expecting -- the ability to drag and drop an app onto the outer screen somehow?

So far, we've talked an awful lot about what it's like to use a notebook with two displays, but we haven't actually said much about the panels themselves. As we alluded to earlier, the inner display offers good viewing angles.

In fact, both screens do. Regardless of the one we used, we had no problem watching movies from off to the side; the contrast and color balance stayed even. In the case of the interior display -- the one you'd use in notebook mode -- we were still able to follow along with an episode of South Park even after dipping the lid almost halfway forward.

That means if you're working with the machine in your lap, you don't have to be too finicky with the screen angle; most should work. As for pen input, the outside screen has an N-Trig digitizer. The accompanying stylus is pressure-sensitive and is powered by a single AAA battery. It also has a button for erasing not like the Surface Pro pen, where you can flip it over and use the opposite end as an eraser.

Without a side-by-side comparison, it's tough for us to say which makes for a smoother experience: the Surface's Wacom-based tech or the N-Trig panel on offer here. Either way, we found we didn't have to apply much pressure while scribbling in SuperNote; we felt like we were pressing about as hard as we would if we were writing on an actual pad.

As you might expect of a small laptop, the volume coming from the speakers isn't the loudest -- we very rarely lowered the sound below the 50 percent mark.

It's not without tinniness -- this is a laptop, after all -- but in general the listening experience was more pleasant than on other Ultrabooks we've tested. Songs that would normally sound distorted on other machines -- rap tracks, Nirvana singles -- were fairly balanced here. Booting up the machine takes nine seconds, which is slightly faster, even, than some other Windows 8 Ultrabooks we've tested recently.

It does seem, though, that that high-octane performance comes at the cost of heat management. After leaving the system idle for a few hours and then picking it up to use Evernote, we noticed it was slightly hot around the vents on the bottom side.

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Like many other buttonless touchpads, the relatively large 4. The pointer occasionally moved up or down slightly when we tried to left-click with a finger on our left hand while navigating with a finger on our right. We also had issues with the cursor occasionally sticking or stopping its motion mid-swipe. These problems became significantly less frequent after we reintalled the touchpad driver.

The pad supports a limited number of gestures, but all worked smoothly most of the time. We were able to effectively pinch-to-zoom, rotate images by rotating our fingers, swipe in from the right to activate the Charms menu, swipe in from the left to switch apps and swipe down from the top to load the app bar. Click to Enlarge Both the internal notebook display and the back tablet display provide excellent colors and wide viewing angles.

Because they are both x pixels and Their p resolution makes everything sharper and provides lots of screen real estate, which allowed us to see more of our windows without scrolling. However, we found the text in desktop mode a little small, even though ASUS has set it by default to percent magnification.

Users may want to turn up the magnification or font size a little higher. At lux on our light meter, the Taichi's notebook display is just a little brighter than the lux ultraportable notebook category average, but way ahead of the Acer Aspire S7's lux measurement. The tablet screen on the lid looked noticeably brighter and measured a stronger lux. When we played a p trailer of "The Avengers" on the matte notebook screen, colors such as the red in Iron Man's armor were particularly vibrant and did not wash out even at angles of almost 90 degrees to the left and right of the display.

However, we did notice some noise in dark areas. Colors on the tablet screen were even richer; there was no noise at all and the subtle differences between similar colors like Robert Downey Jr.

Colors remained true even when we rotated the tablet back 90 degrees, viewed it from 90 degrees to either side or placed it flat on a table and stood standing a distance away from it. In Manual mode, you can move a slider to make the colors colder or warmer. After some experimentation, we found that Normal mode offered the most accurate colors. When we listened to the hard rock "Kickstart My Heart" and "Photograph," the guitar and drums were completely accurate, even at maximum volume, which was more than loud enough to fill a living room.

The bundled Wave Maxx audio software provides a number of presets for different types of audio, including movies, speech, music and gaming, but it turned out that speech and movies provided better music playback than the music setting. Disabling Wave Maxx made the output sound flat and lifeless. The software also provides a detailed graphic equalizer that picky audiophiles can use to fine-tune the output. Click to Enlarge Though the Taichi 21 has a tablet on its lid, we were disappointed to discover that its notebook screen does not support touch at all.

As we used the Ultrabook, we kept reaching across the keyboard to swipe the screen and then remembered that we needed to use the clickpad instead. Whether we were navigating around the Windows 8 UI, pinching to zoom in on photos in our gallery, drawing with 10 fingers at once in Windows paint, or swiping to switch apps, the digitizer was always immediately responsive to our gestures.

Even better, the high-end configuration of Taichi 21 comes with an active stylus that supports levels of pressure. Using the stylus, we were able to draw thicker or thinner lines in the Fresh Paint app, depending on how hard we pressed its tip against the glass. Using a finger in the same app, we were only able to draw lines with the maximum thickness.

When held down the top one of the stylus's two buttons in, we were able to erase the lines we'd drawn. We particularly enjoyed using Windows 8's built-in handwriting recognition tool to compose text and insert it in Wordpad and other parts of the OS such as the search box. In desktop mode, the stylus was also particularly helpful because it made targeting smaller objects, such as the items in a pull-down menu, or the text in the middle of a sentence a lot easier than they are with a finger.

The stylus also provides a hover feature, as it makes a small dot appear on the screen when you hold it a few millimeters above the glass. Watching this dot gives you a better idea of where your pointer is in relation to on-screen objects. Clicking the lower button while hovering makes a circle appear around the pointer dot to provide an even larger target area.

Clicking the upper button is equivalent to right-clicking on the clickpad. The stylus itself has just the right thickness and weight to make it feel like a real-world pen. The tip pushed slightly inward as we pressed down while writing, making it feel like a ballpoint point pen scribbling on paper. Unfortunately, the stylus only comes with the highest-priced configuration of the Taichi 21 and, perhaps because of that, the notebook doesn't have a compartment for storing it. The key touch points on the Taichi 21 stayed cool during our anecdotal use, but one area became disturbingly hot during our temperature test.

After streaming a video full-screen for 15 minutes, the touchpad measured a cool 87 degrees Fahrenheit, the keyboard a modest 96 degrees and the underside middle an acceptable 94 degrees.