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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the a sous-vide Oh book this particular one is the S 400 C which is I don't know something basically it's a vivo 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 a Seuss the Zen book and yeah that just comes in it 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 Zen book 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 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 ultrabook because it doesn't sort of fall inside in tells 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 precise I think the reason that I thought it wasn't an ultrabook was because it's a little thicker than most ultra books but that is because the Ultrabook specification does allow notebooks that are larger so that is the diagonal 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 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 move touchscreen - this is actually sort of an outstanding notebook comes with asus is 360 coverage so i just want you guys to check this out two-year international war - that means even if you take it somewhere else you're not going to get any hassle something goes wrong zero Brite guarantee on the LCD so Asus will replace it for you they cover to weight 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've got a 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 look here so it runs a core i5 3317 you 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 and 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 it's a 14 inch 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 TV it runs a 1366 by 768 resolution and runs Windows 8 64-bit I wish we've been able to get rid of the whole 64 bit 32-bit things earlier on but 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 set up 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 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 brick actually is now let's have a look at the notebook itself it actually reminds me a lot of like in terms of just the overall the overall finish of it the overall look at the keyboard especially of something like 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 chiclet 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 much 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 of six seven hundred dollar notebooks you end up with something that has a lot of like a lot of give 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 surest ways to know if a notebook is 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 discrete jacks for that 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 out-of-round I think it's under one gigahertz when you're idling anyway so I don't wouldn't worry too much about 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 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 they're just that's what the back let's say it's again it looks very very premium considering the price points of 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 it should be noted right thickness I never showed you guys the overall thickness so here we're going to do the foam thickness comparison as well just to show you that while it is a little bit thicker than a smaller Ultrabook because it's a 14-inch 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 touchscreen 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 touchscreen 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 that's good to know I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the s400 from Asus don't forget to subscribe to honest tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos