ASUS VIVOBOOK FLIP 14 REVIEW

 ASUS VIVOBOOK FLIP 14 

today we're looking at the asu's teepee for 1 0 ua vivo book flip 14th in this thing is a 360 inch goes around in a circle so you can use as a tablet that's not what we want to talk about today I want to talk to you about what you get for the money just a few things I was given this laptop to spruce it up to somebody else's but I want to talk about one major problem with this first of all I like it a straight out of the gate I like it it's a small screen it's only 1080p but because the screen is so tiny it feels closer to 2k right it's a very clear very nice screen the touch works great but what I really want to talk to you about is some hardware specs first of all 8 gigs of RAM I'm not a huge fan I would love to see 16 or at least 12 the CPU 1.8 not bad it's not bad for a little power saving unit like this I like it's an 8th gen says it right down here it's an 8th gen that's good the display adapter is right here it is a new HD graphics 620 so I mean it's tied into the CPU but you're not doing gaming on here it's fine it's fine let's get to the crappy part this is this camera this is the webcam and it sucks it's the same webcam as this which has been in a Zeus laptops since like 2011 it's the same freaking chip it's the same thing they put in every laptop it's kind of a joke it's four by three I'm sure I could spruce up the image a little bit but as you can see it's even pretty far behind lagging for real life as I'm talking ok the camera needs to go there's one other huge thing that I hate about this laptop and that's right there st 1000 LX that is this hard drive right there hybrid one terabyte spin up drive so it's got some solid state and it's got some spin outs now that can be successful in a few areas if you're cashing small amounts of stuff like Word documents and those kinds of things it'll load them faster but if you decide to do something else besides what you normally do five seconds ago you're gonna have to wait for it to load I'm not a fan of the hard drive I wish there was an SSD in there that little hard drive right there can easily replace with the cheap solid-state drive lengths in the description you can blow your image over for free you can do this yourself it's super easy so if you get one of these you want to make it go way faster put a solid state in it's gonna cost somewhere around the same you're not gonna get one terabyte but you're definitely gonna get a lot more beat out of it all right so downfalls to this laptop is the hard drive and small amount of RAM everything else is great if you can get it for 500 bucks I would jump all over it okay it's a great little unit for $500 but if you can't get it for 500 bucks I don't know 646 15 it's a little too much especially if you've got a dump solid-state into it I do want to mention one other thing I wanted to show you just how thin this screen side really is that's one mill 1 mill that's pretty decent how much does that in freedom units look at that it's really thin so you got to be careful when you're opening it most people open from the side and so you got to be careful not to press stuff but other than that it does a funky 360 hinge so you can tint this thing all day long and it does automatic screen flipping the touch is still there everything's fine and on this side is our keyboard disabled I'm pressing the start button and nothing's happening so when you get past a certain point it disables the keyboard which is great because you want to set things down on the keyboard sometime but just like this that's why I'm saying not a bad little unit at all just get it on sale for around 500 bucks because you got to throw an SSD and if you really want things to go fast all right once it's booted once everything's loaded once in your experience it runs faster but you have to wait the initial load time and everything is 10 times faster with a solid-state drive the trackpad is actually pretty nice the only thing I hate about it is the thumbprint scanner not gonna lie when you start navigating around up in this top corner there's no sensitivity on this thumbprint scanner so I'll just away and it picks up real hard on these little beveled edges picks up on your finger touching that so what ends up happening is your mouse jumps around I show you up here so my mouse is in the middle just upon the thumbprint scanner so here we go stops it jumps it's grabbing my finger around the edges it's doing all sorts of funny stuff look at that like what is that I'm just navigating around on the thumbprint and it's going kind of weird so I'm not impressed that the thumb prints in that top corner yes you're not gonna be hitting that top corner all the time but let's be serious as soon as you do it's gonna screw you up pretty bad this is a positive that I found this is your entire Microsoft Office 360 most of this is drivers there's almost no bloatware here audio wizard maybe you could call it that a TK package which is a Zeus of stuff I mean there's not a lot of bloatware here at all if any so this laptop came with almost no blow ware which I hope becomes a new standard because this blows me away this is a definite positive bloatware for the average person is a giant performance suck and it completely trashes laptops no bloatware is a really good thing we have the wireless network here we have two of them top ones 2.4 the bottom ones 5 authenticated to both but well if I try to connect to the 5 it would kill the connection it's not very good with far range 5 gigahertz my other laptop that I have in gaming MSI holds the connection and this one drops it as soon as it connects so I don't know I feel like the wireless maybe there's not a lot of antennas up in here in the in the screen but just something to be conscious of if you've got wireless needs that are pretty low signal I don't know I don't know so we are going to do a restart test to see how long it takes to restart this computer here we go now the reason why this is taking a lot longer than an SSD or other computers that you've used is because it's not running an SSD it's running a hybrid which has spin up components which still take a long time we're still not in and I want to be able to open file explorer at least so let's give it a try all right so we made it so it was about a minute which is quite a long time considering an SSD you'll probably do it in 35 seconds so that's just something if you've got a minute to boot that's fine if you don't put an SSD in it this thing will be such a different machine with an SSD in it .