Gadgetory

I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a look at the Visio CT 14 is one of a pretty highly hype line of new laptops and all-in-one desktop PCs from Vizio a company that usually makes TVs you may ask yourself why they making computers now well it's a good question it's actually the second kind of consumer electronics manufacturer getting into pcs this year that we've seen after the razor blade from razor a company that makes all kinds of computer and gaming accessories unlike that system which was very ambitious but maybe a little bit too outside the norm these Vizio systems are fairly standard ultrabooks with some you know unique design features and some interesting choices as to what they left in and what they took out I will say for a 14-inch Ultrabook the CT 14 is very thin it's very light it really has that sort of consumer like trying to vibe to it where they sort of designed it first to be really cool and then figured out how to put all the parts inside rather than maybe the other way around which is how you get a lot of sort of generic ultrabooks that you see these days so definitely thumbs up on the overall design the size and the weight this particular version has a core i7 CPU it will run you about 1,200 bucks there's also a Core i5 and a core i3 version they all have solid-state hard drives which I always like to see in anything that calls itself an ultrabook you'll see that the keyboard is probably the biggest departure from current laptop design instead of the island style keyboard pretty much everybody has these are widely spaced keys that are packed very tightly together you'd kind of remind me especially because it's got the same sort of light silver gray color of what macbook pro keyboards used to look like although in this case it's not really as good you know there's a good bit of flex under your fingers while you're typing you know not unusable not the best keyboard that I've used and the touchpad B click pad style but again not as responsive as let's say you find on a MacBook and-and-and clicking down in the corner over here for a right-click a little bit hit or miss you really got to nail it in exactly the right spot now they've packed a couple USB 3.0 ports in here and an HDMI output that's great but there's no SD card slot which is really weird the only other laptop like that I can think of is maybe the 11 inch MacBook err and I know he turn it Jack but you know a lot of super Sun ultrabooks don't have that I do like the screen in that it's a 1600 by 900 screen which is a nice resolution for something like this but it's a little bit of that wavy quality sometimes you're seeing cheap screens even though it's an IPS display which means the off-axis viewing is really good and it's actually fairly crisp and bright so if you're looking for an ultra book that has more of a consumer electronics home-theater sort of tint to it that it's definitely worth checking out this new vizio line they take a couple leaps of faith and a couple of first generation jitters in there but I'm really really interested in seeing what they do for the next round of systems I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Vizio CT 14