Not only is it possibly the best notebook around at the moment for the details as well as the specs, it’s the best price there’s been for a comparable mobile computing experience for a long time.

Imagine you walked into a computer store and asked rattled off a list of specifications to the sales consultant that aren’t that spectacular in themselves, but which you rarely see together in a retail notebook.

With content distributors falling over themselves to offer a digital download model that works to fight piracy, Telstra should have done far more to ensure their software works with a wider cross-section of system settings instead of stitching it to a single system profile that’s beyond the reach of casual users.