welcome to my unboxing and first look at the ASUS Vivo book this particular one
is the s400c which is I don't know something
basically it's a VI book so the idea is
that it's kind of like a lower cost version of a very slim and light
notebook that is also from ASUS the Zen
book and and uh yeah yeah just comes in at kind of a kind of a lower lower price
point I mean this one's around 600 bucks comes with eco-friendly packaging which
I do like to see remember guys foam
there's pretty much no way to break it down so yeah it's it's a very very bad
thing so it's not as thin as a Zenbook but it's still in a very sort of slim
beautiful form factor with brushed metal on the top that looks absolutely
gorgeous actually that that's fantastic it's considering the again the sort of
the value price point of this model so we're going to put that down for now and
we'll talk specs it's not an Ultra Book
because it doesn't sort of fall inside Intel's um you know oh it is an
Ultrabook my bad okay it is an Ultrabook which means it does fall within Intel
specification meaning it has the anti- theft technology it has all the
appropriate chipsets so it has to have an Intel Wireless chipset it has to meet
a certain specification in terms of weight and thickness per size I think
the reason that I thought it wasn't an Ultrabook was cuz it's a little thicker
than most Ultrabooks but that is because the Ultrabook specification does allow
notebooks that are larger so that is the diagonal uh the diagonal length across
the screen to be thicker because they just have to be larger machines and you
don't want to compromise the rigidity and the build quality of the machine
just to get sort of you know a little bit of extra a little well okay you
wouldn't call it extra thinness it's more like less thickness so we're going to go
ahead and fire it up oo touchcreen too this is actually sort of an outstanding
notebook uh it comes with Aus 360
coverage so I just want you guys to check this out 2year international
warranty that means even if you take it somewhere else you're not going to get any hassle if something goes wrong zero
bright dot guarantee on the LCD so ASUS will replace it for you they cover
two-way free standard shipping for warranty repairs and 24/7 technical
support it looks like this particular one doesn't include The Accidental
damage that they used to include you know what we should double check this
and find out for you though it does not include accidental
damage like some of the higher end models do but I okay it's a lower end
model so I guess it is what it is at least you have the international warranty which I think is one of the
biggest things and free two-way shipping actually is pretty good too because the
industry standard is that the manufacturer will pay to ship it back to
you but you pay to ship it to them in the first place so I haven't actually
gone through specs so let's just have a quick quick look here so it runs a core
i 53317 u although this particular the
S400 shell is available in a variety of different CPU configs this particular
one has a 500 gig SATA drive with a 24
gig M SSD so I think they mean M SATA SSD that's being used as a cache which
does actually make the device feel dramatically snappier in my experience
um it's a 14inch screen it is a touchscreen screen which I think is
pretty much a must on any notebook these days it comes with 6 gigs of RAM for
this particular model although some of the different ones do not doesn't have
fingerprint doesn't have uh TV it runs a
1366 X 768 resolution and it runs
Windows 864 bit I wish we'd been able to get rid of the whole 64-bit 32-bit thing
earlier on but uh I didn't get my way
with all of that so there you go they've gone with a different shape for their
power brick for this generation here so we've got the same sort of cable running
to a power brick running to another cable setup that we've seen before just
like this but they've just changed the shape a little bit I mean this might
make it a little bit easier to okay this doesn't come off for anything easier to
like coil up or easier to tuck away in something but I don't see it making that
much of a difference I no longer have an iPhone 4 so I'll be doing my HTC 8X size
comparison uh for those of you who don't know how big an 8X is it's very similar
in size to a Galaxy S3 so that should give you a better idea of how big the
power power brick actually is now let's have a look at the notebook itself it
actually reminds me a lot of um like in terms of just the overall the overall
finish of it the overall look of the keyboard especially of something like uh
like a Macbook where it has a very very solid feel it's not a unibody design by
any stretch of the imagination but look at this you actually really can't see a
lot of flex to the keyboard itself so you can see from the pressure on my
fingers how much pressure I'm actually putting on the unit but there's really
not a lot of flex to it so typing should be very comfortable on the chicklet
keyboard that's included just because the thing that really bothers me with a
lot of laptop keyboards is how mushy they can get when you're trying to type
on them for long periods whereas this one doesn't have any wow it doesn't have
any mush to it at all that's very comfortable build quality is
surprisingly good again considering considering the price point normally
when you get into those sort of6 700 notebooks um you end up with something
that has a lot of uh like a lot of but
here so I'll do my usual twist test where I'm seeing how much you can
actually bend it which is one of the shest ways to know if a notebook is uh
is well built or not so on this side we find USB 3 HDMI out VGA out which I
still like to see included gigabit Ethernet using one of those little flap
Ethernet Jacks power in on the back you
find not a whole lot on the other side you find a Kensington lock two USB 2.0
ports a headphone microphone Jack wouldn't have minded seeing discret
Jacks for that uh an SD card reader and then on the front you've got not a whole
lot of much of anything on the bottom you just find a Windows 8 sticker as
well as some ventilation holes the CPU is clocked only at of around H I think
it's under one gahz when you're idling anyway so I don't wouldn't worry too
much about uh that fan being very loud at all this one's come with no charge
unfortunately so I can't power it up right now but I can give you guys a
better look at the back so uh it doesn't include a microfiber cloth unfortunately
but I think I have one around here
somewhere yeah we'll just go with that so I just want you guys to see sort of
what the back of it looks like did you get any good footage of that
diesel I'm sort of getting a I'm getting a quizzical look so there just that's
what the back looks like again it looks very very premium considering the price
points so the shiny ASUS logo the brush finish it's not quite black like it's
almost like a very deep Brown so it it
looks black at first glance but then once you look at it from sort of a
different angle it has sort of like a very very dark wood finish sort of look
to it I actually really really like it yeah diesel says classy thank you that's
probably the word I was looking for actually um it should be noted right
thickness I never showed you guys the overall thickness so here we're going to
do the phone thickness comparison as well just to show you that while it is a
little bit thicker than a smaller Ultrabook because it's it's a 14-in
model you do get to get away with a little bit more thickness and still keep
that Ultrabook title however it should
be noted that the touchcreen itself adds a lot of weight and a lot of bulk to the
screen typically because it's an entire extra layer in there that you have to
add in order to get the touchscreen functionality so staying within that
spec and adding a touch screen at this price point is very impressive it has
Sonic Master audio so that should mean that in theory The Notebook has better
audio than other comparable notebooks that don't have any kind of sort of
attention paid to the audio so it's got stereo speakers here and here and
according to sort of what I've seen anecdotally people have been saying that
yes it does indeed sound better than sort of most notebooks that are this
thin so it's good to know I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for
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