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I just got a Asus UX31a-DH71. It has an 256SSD, i7 processor with 4M cache. Long battery life. Great screen, 1920x1080. Keyboard stays cool. Suspend/resume work great. Got touchpad working with multitouch scrolling and clicking. About 2 pounds total weight.

I am running Linux Mint 16 with Cinnamon. Almost everything worked out of the box. Install required turning off secure boot but other than that was easy.

I looked at the other ultrabooks and most top end models, including the newer asus 301x, were selling for around 1800. You can get the UX31a on amazon, from asus, for around 1,000.00.