1 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:14,400 welcome to my unboxing and first look at the ASUS Vivo book this particular one 2 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:20,760 is the s400c which is I don't know something 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:22,880 basically it's a VI book so the idea is 4 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:29,119 that it's kind of like a lower cost version of a very slim and light 5 00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:32,079 notebook that is also from ASUS the Zen 6 00:00:29,119 --> 00:00:35,920 book and and uh yeah yeah just comes in at kind of a kind of a lower lower price 7 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:40,879 point I mean this one's around 600 bucks comes with eco-friendly packaging which 8 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:43,320 I do like to see remember guys foam 9 00:00:40,879 --> 00:00:48,399 there's pretty much no way to break it down so yeah it's it's a very very bad 10 00:00:46,199 --> 00:00:54,280 thing so it's not as thin as a Zenbook but it's still in a very sort of slim 11 00:00:51,559 --> 00:00:58,480 beautiful form factor with brushed metal on the top that looks absolutely 12 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:02,239 gorgeous actually that that's fantastic it's considering the again the sort of 13 00:01:00,359 --> 00:01:07,040 the value price point of this model so we're going to put that down for now and 14 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:09,400 we'll talk specs it's not an Ultra Book 15 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:14,880 because it doesn't sort of fall inside Intel's um you know oh it is an 16 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:18,360 Ultrabook my bad okay it is an Ultrabook which means it does fall within Intel 17 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:22,920 specification meaning it has the anti- theft technology it has all the 18 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:27,479 appropriate chipsets so it has to have an Intel Wireless chipset it has to meet 19 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:31,439 a certain specification in terms of weight and thickness per size I think 20 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:36,079 the reason that I thought it wasn't an Ultrabook was cuz it's a little thicker 21 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:41,600 than most Ultrabooks but that is because the Ultrabook specification does allow 22 00:01:38,799 --> 00:01:47,079 notebooks that are larger so that is the diagonal uh the diagonal length across 23 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:51,079 the screen to be thicker because they just have to be larger machines and you 24 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:55,560 don't want to compromise the rigidity and the build quality of the machine 25 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:59,479 just to get sort of you know a little bit of extra a little well okay you 26 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:05,439 wouldn't call it extra thinness it's more like less thickness so we're going to go 27 00:02:03,159 --> 00:02:10,440 ahead and fire it up oo touchcreen too this is actually sort of an outstanding 28 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:11,599 notebook uh it comes with Aus 360 29 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:14,879 coverage so I just want you guys to check this out 2year international 30 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:20,319 warranty that means even if you take it somewhere else you're not going to get any hassle if something goes wrong zero 31 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:24,239 bright dot guarantee on the LCD so ASUS will replace it for you they cover 32 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:28,760 two-way free standard shipping for warranty repairs and 24/7 technical 33 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:33,319 support it looks like this particular one doesn't include The Accidental 34 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:37,120 damage that they used to include you know what we should double check this 35 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:40,800 and find out for you though it does not include accidental 36 00:02:39,519 --> 00:02:45,480 damage like some of the higher end models do but I okay it's a lower end 37 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:50,080 model so I guess it is what it is at least you have the international warranty which I think is one of the 38 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:53,040 biggest things and free two-way shipping actually is pretty good too because the 39 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:56,519 industry standard is that the manufacturer will pay to ship it back to 40 00:02:54,599 --> 00:02:59,680 you but you pay to ship it to them in the first place so I haven't actually 41 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:04,840 gone through specs so let's just have a quick quick look here so it runs a core 42 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:07,159 i 53317 u although this particular the 43 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:12,519 S400 shell is available in a variety of different CPU configs this particular 44 00:03:09,319 --> 00:03:15,400 one has a 500 gig SATA drive with a 24 45 00:03:12,519 --> 00:03:20,680 gig M SSD so I think they mean M SATA SSD that's being used as a cache which 46 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:26,400 does actually make the device feel dramatically snappier in my experience 47 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:29,879 um it's a 14inch screen it is a touchscreen screen which I think is 48 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,519 pretty much a must on any notebook these days it comes with 6 gigs of RAM for 49 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:38,480 this particular model although some of the different ones do not doesn't have 50 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:42,680 fingerprint doesn't have uh TV it runs a 51 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:45,280 1366 X 768 resolution and it runs 52 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:52,000 Windows 864 bit I wish we'd been able to get rid of the whole 64-bit 32-bit thing 53 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:53,959 earlier on but uh I didn't get my way 54 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:57,239 with all of that so there you go they've gone with a different shape for their 55 00:03:55,200 --> 00:04:02,439 power brick for this generation here so we've got the same sort of cable running 56 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:06,959 to a power brick running to another cable setup that we've seen before just 57 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:10,439 like this but they've just changed the shape a little bit I mean this might 58 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:14,000 make it a little bit easier to okay this doesn't come off for anything easier to 59 00:04:11,879 --> 00:04:17,440 like coil up or easier to tuck away in something but I don't see it making that 60 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:23,520 much of a difference I no longer have an iPhone 4 so I'll be doing my HTC 8X size 61 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:27,960 comparison uh for those of you who don't know how big an 8X is it's very similar 62 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:31,840 in size to a Galaxy S3 so that should give you a better idea of how big the 63 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:36,880 power power brick actually is now let's have a look at the notebook itself it 64 00:04:33,919 --> 00:04:40,320 actually reminds me a lot of um like in terms of just the overall the overall 65 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:44,479 finish of it the overall look of the keyboard especially of something like uh 66 00:04:42,639 --> 00:04:48,919 like a Macbook where it has a very very solid feel it's not a unibody design by 67 00:04:46,479 --> 00:04:54,080 any stretch of the imagination but look at this you actually really can't see a 68 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:57,479 lot of flex to the keyboard itself so you can see from the pressure on my 69 00:04:55,639 --> 00:05:02,479 fingers how much pressure I'm actually putting on the unit but there's really 70 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:06,280 not a lot of flex to it so typing should be very comfortable on the chicklet 71 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:10,520 keyboard that's included just because the thing that really bothers me with a 72 00:05:08,199 --> 00:05:13,680 lot of laptop keyboards is how mushy they can get when you're trying to type 73 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:17,960 on them for long periods whereas this one doesn't have any wow it doesn't have 74 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:21,440 any mush to it at all that's very comfortable build quality is 75 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:25,160 surprisingly good again considering considering the price point normally 76 00:05:22,759 --> 00:05:30,319 when you get into those sort of6 700 notebooks um you end up with something 77 00:05:27,199 --> 00:05:33,000 that has a lot of uh like a lot of but 78 00:05:30,319 --> 00:05:36,720 here so I'll do my usual twist test where I'm seeing how much you can 79 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:41,639 actually bend it which is one of the shest ways to know if a notebook is uh 80 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:47,440 is well built or not so on this side we find USB 3 HDMI out VGA out which I 81 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:53,120 still like to see included gigabit Ethernet using one of those little flap 82 00:05:49,639 --> 00:05:55,840 Ethernet Jacks power in on the back you 83 00:05:53,120 --> 00:06:01,160 find not a whole lot on the other side you find a Kensington lock two USB 2.0 84 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:05,240 ports a headphone microphone Jack wouldn't have minded seeing discret 85 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:08,919 Jacks for that uh an SD card reader and then on the front you've got not a whole 86 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:12,880 lot of much of anything on the bottom you just find a Windows 8 sticker as 87 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:17,199 well as some ventilation holes the CPU is clocked only at of around H I think 88 00:06:14,759 --> 00:06:22,240 it's under one gahz when you're idling anyway so I don't wouldn't worry too 89 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:27,319 much about uh that fan being very loud at all this one's come with no charge 90 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:31,080 unfortunately so I can't power it up right now but I can give you guys a 91 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:36,360 better look at the back so uh it doesn't include a microfiber cloth unfortunately 92 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:38,440 but I think I have one around here 93 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:42,000 somewhere yeah we'll just go with that so I just want you guys to see sort of 94 00:06:39,919 --> 00:06:47,199 what the back of it looks like did you get any good footage of that 95 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:51,599 diesel I'm sort of getting a I'm getting a quizzical look so there just that's 96 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:56,479 what the back looks like again it looks very very premium considering the price 97 00:06:54,080 --> 00:07:02,080 points so the shiny ASUS logo the brush finish it's not quite black like it's 98 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:04,319 almost like a very deep Brown so it it 99 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:08,160 looks black at first glance but then once you look at it from sort of a 100 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:13,280 different angle it has sort of like a very very dark wood finish sort of look 101 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:16,960 to it I actually really really like it yeah diesel says classy thank you that's 102 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:20,199 probably the word I was looking for actually um it should be noted right 103 00:07:18,919 --> 00:07:24,639 thickness I never showed you guys the overall thickness so here we're going to 104 00:07:22,199 --> 00:07:28,479 do the phone thickness comparison as well just to show you that while it is a 105 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:32,199 little bit thicker than a smaller Ultrabook because it's it's a 14-in 106 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:36,759 model you do get to get away with a little bit more thickness and still keep 107 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:39,680 that Ultrabook title however it should 108 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:44,199 be noted that the touchcreen itself adds a lot of weight and a lot of bulk to the 109 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:48,000 screen typically because it's an entire extra layer in there that you have to 110 00:07:46,319 --> 00:07:52,039 add in order to get the touchscreen functionality so staying within that 111 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:56,400 spec and adding a touch screen at this price point is very impressive it has 112 00:07:54,240 --> 00:08:01,159 Sonic Master audio so that should mean that in theory The Notebook has better 113 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:05,400 audio than other comparable notebooks that don't have any kind of sort of 114 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:10,000 attention paid to the audio so it's got stereo speakers here and here and 115 00:08:08,159 --> 00:08:15,080 according to sort of what I've seen anecdotally people have been saying that 116 00:08:12,159 --> 00:08:18,680 yes it does indeed sound better than sort of most notebooks that are this 117 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:22,319 thin so it's good to know I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for 118 00:08:20,319 --> 00:08:26,280 checking out my unboxing and first look at the S400 from ASUS don't forget to 119 00:08:24,479 --> 00:08:30,400 subscribe to L's Tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos