I have it! I have it! I have my rhombic computer! 
(yes, it looks as a skewed box and i don’t know why)
After much searching, the customs did find my little Asus. I went to the customs office, checked out the computer (no tax but 22% VAT) and happily drove home.
Plugging in was easy as pie. The power brick is of the laptop kind, which means it has a detachable power cord with a “mickey mouse” connector, so changing it from a US cord to an EU one was no problem. I would have hated having an ugly adapter around. Kudos to Asus for that.
Two seconds after powering up, i was greeted with a Splashtop-powered minimal interface with a web browser, chat and Skype. The setup also included a media player but since it didn’t play media resources on the network, didn’t give it much more thought. Also, it seemed like i wasn’t seeing full HD resolution on the telly. Quite a shame really. A near-instantly starting media centre would be… nice!
The next step was going to the system installation feature. And even though i’d bought a Linux computer, the installer only offered me one choice: Windows Vista. With no license key. So counting Splashtop as Linux, i indeed got a computer with Linux.
Next i’m going to test booting from an XBMC Live distribution on USB.
