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hi I'm Scott Stein and if you're interested in a budget laptop that also happens to be big and has a touchscreen and doesn't cost too much money then maybe you'll be interested in this the asus vive book s500 CA which is $6.99 and less depending on where you buy it what's nice about this laptop is its reasonably attractive it's pretty well packed with specs and again it has that nice capacitive touch screen but you are giving up a few things in this package one it's got not that big a difference in specs from what you'd get on an ultrabook some sort of thin 13 inch laptop and this is thinner but it's really not ultra portable this is 4.8 pounds and this thing is big in a 15-inch laptop you kind of expect maybe a DVD drive or Nvidia or AMD graphics something like that there isn't any of that there's a Core i5 processor 6 gigs of RAM 500 gig hard drive it's a hybrid hard drive those aren't bad specs but you do see them on thinner laptops to the screen on this is 1366 by 768 on a 15.6 inch screen that's low res for this screen size it's fine if you want to do any basic application work or even watching videos looks pretty good for pictures for photos for text you can see the pixels you can definitely do better it's not bad and 3 the battery life on this not so great four and a half hours which is not horrible it's not fantastic it's certainly not fantastic so it's enough to get you through a good chunk of the day but if you have to be asking those questions and when you need to plug it in well their laptops that last longer also the fact that there's no backlit keyboard here do I sound a little ambivalent about this laptop sure because this probably isn't the laptop that I'd want to buy but there are people who do like the idea of just a sheerly large screen resolution notwithstanding you saw those things being sold a while ago laptops and the budget end that are big boned and don't really have specs that are that exciting but hey you got a big laptop the speakers on this do sound much than average so if you like good sound there is that and if you want to get something in the $600 range again that has touch you can't always get something in that price consider this but know there may be better solutions on the horizon I'm Scott Stein and that's a look at the Asus vive book s500 CA