Pros & Cons:
Pros: Fast and responsive - 24GB SSD - Powerful - Plenty of storage - Great sound quality - 14" touchscreen - Reasonably priced - Light weight
Cons: No DVD drive but how often do you use DVDs or at all? And this means a lighter laptop.
ASUS S400 CA-DB51T VivoBook is a fast and powerful laptop with a 14" glass LED- backlit bright touchscreen. It is solid and well built with an elegant slim design, a Chiclet keyboard that is quite user friendly and large speakers with cool sound.
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• It is powerful and fast with a 1.8GHz Ivy Bridge I5-3337U processor and 6GB RAM, expandable to 8GB RAM. Computer starts and restarts very quickly- Windows installed on the Solid State Hybrid Drive- SSD. It wakes up in 2 seconds from hibernation mode thanks to Super Hybrid Engine II.
• Plenty with 500GB (5400 RPM) + 24GB SSD.
• Bright glass 14" Widescreen LED (1366x768 resolution) - Backlit Touchscreen. You may use the screen just like a tablet- tap to open documents, swipe to browse photos and pinch to zoom.
• User friendly.. The space between keys make it easy to type if you have big fingers. Touchpad is large, smooth and easy to use.
• Surprisingly good with Asus SonicMaster Lite technology large stereo speakers. It offers wider audio range, better bass and clarity.
• 2 USB 2.0 ports, 1 USB 3.0 port, SD Card Reader, Wireless 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0.
• Up to 5 hours battery life.. It also has the auto back up function when battery goes below 5% so your data is safe.
• It is a quiet laptop, you can barely hear the fan when it is dead quiet in the room.
• It is a little under 4 lbs- so it is light probably because of not having a DVD drive.
• Body feels solid, either light aluminium or very strong plastic. It has a stylish design with a nice keyboard layout, and quite slim- the body is thin for a computer at this price.
• It doesn't come with unneccesary software that you need to uninstall like other laptops. Windows 8 comes with The Defender, which is better than the older Microsoft Security Essentials.
• Asus S400CA- DB51T is quite an affordable for a laptop with a 14" touchscreen.
Conclusion: At this price range, Asus S400CA-DB51T Vivobook is a surprisingly cool machine: Powerful, fast, flexible, responsive with touchscreen, good graphics and clear sound and probably as nice looking as a Apple Macbook Pro. It certainly is great value for money.
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