Conclusion:

Overall we have to say it is very cool Asus bringing a feature like ExpressGate to their products from desktop to notebook and we assume more in the future. As far as overall usefulness though for a desktop we wonder how many times people will really want to save those extra 30 seconds not loading Windows but probably less often than more as stated before. We do see a lot of room for potential though if there's some reduced functionality state the computer can go in to draw less power and a few more apps added in such as a media player such as VLC. DeviceVM have done a good job overall with ExpressGate and Asus have made themselves standout from the competition again including it on their new products even the lower-end ones.

Where we really see more potential for ExpressGate is perhaps with Asus smaller netbooks or other applications where reduced functionality and improved start up time are key. The job of Splashtop is never to replace Windows XP or Vista but to handle all the basic tasks more people want to do so and to do it in a very user friendly, easy to manage way. After spending some time with ExpressGate one thing that came to mind for use on a device not requiring less functionality immediately was portable video players or MP3 players. This one market place Asus hasn't entered and although Archos, Creative, and others are doing a fairly good job a touch-screen version of ExpressGate with Asus' typical quality hardware and media player functions might be one heck of a winner. Of course that's just an opinion but we look forward to how DeviceVM might build out Splashtop and where ExpressGate might fall in line with Asus' wide range of products. Since this is more of an investigation than a review we don't have a score but overall we quite liked our time with ExpressGate and don't have very much bad to say at all.

Pricing:
Looking on the net we found you can get the Asus P5Q Deluxe for $189 which is a good deal for this very high-end motherboard.