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I'm Dan Ackerman we are here taking a look at the Sony Vaio duo 13 now this looks like a 13 inch slate style tablet a little bit thick for a tablet but that is because you take the duo 13 you put it down on the table like this take your finger just lift up with one finger right here and then look at that you've got something that's kind of like a laptop or maybe like a little all-in-one PC it's a concept that we've seen before even from Sony when Windows 8 first launched they had an 11 inch version called the duo 11 now the hinge on that model was a little bit more complicated it wasn't quite as overall economic and we thought it was a good idea but the execution did not quite nail it this new 13 inch version improves on a lot of things about it obviously it has a bigger screen I think the keyboard works better instead of a tiny little track point they've actually managed to work a very small touchpad up in the front here that's better than not having any touchpad although it is a very shallow one it's kind of a long rectangle so not super great for navigating but I definitely rather have that than nothing Sony does the manage to get one of Intel's new fourth generation Core iSeries processes in here otherwise known by the codenamed Haswell which makes us one of the first Haswell generation systems that we've seen Sony actually has a couple of really thin really light 11 and 13 inch ultrabooks tile laptops that also have those and as traditional laptops those are a lot more useful this has the bonus of being sort of a slate style tablet and something you can use on a desktop I think the biggest flaw here is this screen while you can move it up and down sort of like this one you fold it into tablet mode it's not actually really adjustable it doesn't stay at another angle and I can't tilt it up any further than this you can see the a fairly extreme angle that it's at right here so this angle may not work for you if that's the case then you're pretty much out of luck it's a cool experimental laptop I'd like to have made a lot of improvements over the last generation it starts at about $1,300 and up that is a lot to ask people to pay for an experiment especially for something that may not be as universally useful as either a convertible tablet where you detach the screen or just a regular Ultra book style laptops I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Sony Vaio duo 13