Sure, but the D430 was available 5 years ago. I was more referring to his claim that there were no good laptops in the ultra portable category since 2003. My point was that there have been several.

The Asus A95V is another one - real workhorse, huge & heavy (18.4 display) but has latest i7 Ivy-Bridge chip set, 2 hard disks, 16GB mem, full HD.

similar price point - actually a bit cheaper than the UX31A but originally only available in Germany.