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hi I'm Scott Stein happy holidays you're looking for a Windows 8 laptop what exactly do you buy that's a pretty confusing landscape with all these flip tops and the safest bet tends to be right now a standard laptop with a touchscreen the price for a lot of these laptops has been centering around seven hundred dollars as of late and the asus vivobook s400 CA offers that package for seven hundred dollars a pretty good deal when you realize that it's got a core i5 processor 500 gigabyte hard drive for gigs of RAM and most importantly a 14 inch touchscreen with nice glass on edge to edge over here now that sounds nice but the battery life on this laptops a little lacking it's not as good as you would find on a lot of other ultrabooks and this really is a big-boned ultrabook it's heavy it's four pounds which is more than you'd expect for something that looks like this and it's a little thicker than you'd expect it's in that 14-inch ultrabook territory lacking a DVD Drive which wouldn't be a deal-breaker except for the fact that the acer aspire m5 i just recently reviewed has a DVD drive at the same price with a backlit keyboard this one does not have a backlit keyboard and the overall feel is solid it's a nice design nice brushed metal feel on the back two tone black and silver but it feels like a couple of corners have been cut when you compare it to a super slim laptop like the zenbook aces top-of-the-line ultrabook category that came out over the past year the vivobook is a new class of laptop by name this crazy vivobook what is exactly does that mean well it's basically a regular laptop with a new name trying to emphasize the fact that there's a lot of touch involved here with the touch screen and a very large pretty comfortable touch pad nothing like as good as a macbook air my opinion but it's pretty good in the windows 8 universe all in all it's an okay laptop it's a pretty good value it's a somewhat forgettable final product that definitely covers all the basis if you're looking for but a guarantee you're going to find a lot of laptops like this out there at that price range and by this time next year that's going to seem like a lot of money for this but even at the beginning of 2013 I think they're going to be a lot of laptops coming out better offer similar value may be even better if you feel my enthusiasm flagging just a little bit for this laptop it's because we've seen a lot of these before this touchscreen laptop that's your standard issue right in that seven hundred dollar price range the vivobook doesn't really rise above the competition and provide anything to write home about but it's not a terrible deal if you happen to buy one I'd hold out I'm Scott Stein and that's a look at the asus vivobook s400 CA