According to Vizio reps, the engineers were concerned that a backlit keyboard would increase the thickness of the laptop, and most backlit keyboard suffer from unsightly light bleed anyway. That said, the company is apparently considering backlighting for future models.
The problem is, the pad just doesn't work very reliably, even after some early driver updates. For one, the touchpad offers a good deal of resistance, and moving the cursor where you want it to go can be a challenge: sometimes it stops short on the screen, and occasionally it moves in a different direction entirely.
There were a few vexing instances in which the cursor randomly jumped to a different part of the screen while we were typing, forcing us to backtrack and delete unwanted characters before carrying on. At other times, too, the pad mistook left clicks for right ones.
Still, the pad is frustrating enough to use as is that we can't see ourselves giving this laptop a hearty recommendation until Vizio figures it out. In fact, Vizio's engineers were apparently as disgusted by these lower-resolution screens as you guys were, and decided that at the very least, its laptops would have a 1, x pixel count. The higher-end configurations have p panels.
And while we've tested many a 1, x laptop and survived, you really can tell the difference here. This is much crisper than what you'd typically get at this, or any price. Just keep in mind that because this is a typical TN panel, the viewing angles aren't that special. Depending on how harshly lit your surroundings are, you could probably get away with crowding around the laptop and watching a movie from friends, even if it meant one of you would have to watch at an off-angle.
Naturally, the whites are a little less white from the sides, but it's still easy enough to make out whatever's on screen. You'll have a little less luck if you dip the screen forward, though: we even found it difficult to type this review unless the screen was positioned at an upright angle. We'll say this about the sound: the volume is appreciably loud. As for quality, though, the sound is almost indistinguishable from other laptops, which is to say it's tinny and constrained, but probably good enough for a listening party of one.
For the purposes of this review, we tested Vizio's top-of-the-line configuration, with a 1. Its score of 13, in PCMark Vantage is actually the highest we've seen in this class of computer, though it does seem a bit peculiar that it's almost the same score we got from a Core i5-powered MacBook Air.
We would have expected the delta to be even bigger, any differences in SSDs notwithstanding. Still, without a discrete GPU, even the best Ivy Bridge machines struggle with gaming -- this guy couldn't even break 30 frames per second in Call of Duty 4 , and that was with the default settings 1, x resolution. Oh dear. It's never a good thing when a company promises its inch laptop will last five and a half hours, tops.
Granted, our particular battery life test is taxing, much more so than the MobileMark benchmark Vizio uses in its testing labs. Suffice to say, that's not acceptable for a product that was built to be mobile, and that should have room for a larger battery. Even more than that high-resolution display or all-metal chassis, this is how Vizio decided to one-up all those seasoned laptop makers. Every unit ships with Signature , a clean, crapware-free image of Windows that was approved by Microsoft and obviously Microsoft doesn't want Windows to be known for its bloat, so it has a clear motivation to keep the junk out.
Indeed, you won't find any third-party software other than Adobe Reader. Other than that, it's Microsoft Office Starter edition, which you'll find on every copy of Windows; Microsoft Security Essentials; and Skype, which is, of course, now a part of the Microsoft family as well.
Naturally, even if there were a long list of third-party programs, we could've uninstalled each and every one of them. But there's something to be said for booting up a computer for the first time and loading up a near-blank desktop.
There is one unorthodox thing about Vizio's PCs, and that's that you can use a function key -- excuse us, the V-Key -- to launch certain multimedia sites, such as Netflix or Amazon Instant Video. That key is actually just the F1 button with Vizio's logo painted on it, and when you hit it for the first time you'll be taken to a browser-based setup. Even Vizio's own application doesn't eat up precious megabytes on your hard drive. All told, it's a harmless little gimmick, but it's also not terribly useful.
It would seem that Vizio wanted to tie in these streaming services as a way of calling attention to its TV know-how, but if you ask us, the company already did that by including such a lovely display. Regardless of which one you pick, you'll get a 1, x screen and Intel's HD graphics. It's a similar deal for the Here, too, there's a Core i3, i5 and i7 configuration, and you'll need to go with the highest-end model to get those gigs of storage.
In the case of these inch machines, though, the screen resolution is 1, x 1,, not 1, x A laptop with an all-metal design, SSD and a 1, x screen begs comparison with other high-end thin-and-lights, don'tcha think? Still, specs aren't everything, are they? Having tested both laptops, we can say that even though the UX31A also suffers from trackpad issues, it does have a more comfortable keyboard, and also lasts longer on a charge.
Sure, the pixel count is 1, x , but as we've tried to demonstrate, a higher-res screen isn't much consolation when the computer has some serious usability flaws.
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