Notebookreview checked out the M9V laptop from Asus, here's a short quote from their test report:

I bought my notebook at a retail shop in Taipei for around $1265, upgrading the RAM by another 512MB, later I thought I should've gone instead for 1GB. The entire package includes bag, AC adaptor, optical mouse, S-video cable, LCD cleaning cloth, software CDs, driver CDs, XP recovery CDs which I exchanged for an English version, but no standalone full XP CD (unlike what I read of other Asus reviews) perhaps their policy in Taiwan is different from everywhere else.



Link: Notebookreview