New Vizio 15.6" Ultra Thin, 256 SSD, unboxing, WEI, sound, and boot tim

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When Steve Jobs introduced an easy to use music player called the IPod, my first reaction was not how smart he was, but how stupid all the other manufacturers were.

Here Vizio does something so simple. A gorgeous Ultrabook, 15.6", crapware free, 2 year warranty at no extra charge, and all north American technical support.

Duh!

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OP: It's not vector graphics that causes smooth zoom in-out on Macs, I don't really know what is the reason but Safari might be animating layout changes that IE10 does in some cases. Can you try doing that in IE10?

It's scary how fast Windows 8 booted on that thing :blink:

Got a direct link? IE10 has very limited flash support, so I've only got a red X with it embedded.

I just watched it on desktop-IE10

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Im looking forward to hearing more about Windows 8 on it and touchpad related findings. Who supplies the drivers?

Vizio stated that when Windows 8 launched there would be some surprises - a ?pseudo-touch interface that?s pretty neat?.

I assume it's related to Synaptics and InterTouch

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That was some great boot up times with win8, will be interesting to hear your impressions with the system and win 8 after a while. Keep us posted, vid was good too covered alot, should keep em coming :)

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I will be posting more tests later, but I too was puzzled by the Windows Experience Index, then I realized I didn't rerun the assessment after all the updates.

So here are the new and improved WEI scores.

I'll assume lack of proper Win 8 video drivers could explain the lower score. Not sure.

Windows 7:

7.1 - Processor

5.9 - RAM

5.8 - Graphics

6.4 - Gaming Graphics

7.9 - SSD HD

Windows 8

7.1

5.9

5.4

6.3

8.1

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No ethernet is a ultrabook standart now, too?

C'mon, the only thing that this device lacks is RJ45 port. That little thingie is must.

I saw there are usb to ethernet dongles out there but why? Serious networking still needs an ethernet cable with a wired router.

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No ethernet is a ultrabook standart now, too?

C'mon, the only thing that this device lacks is RJ45 port. That little thingie is must.

I saw there are usb to ethernet dongles out there but why? Serious networking still needs an ethernet cable with a wired router.

The ethernet port is by far the biggest/tallest port on the laptop. Up until recently, hardware was never small enough to bother. But now, the only way to slim the laptop even further to ditch the ethernet port. Vizio isn't the only one taking this approach; Apple did it with the Retina MBP and others are following as well.

It's an unfortunate hassle to if you rely on ethernet for a stable connection. For most users, they have wifi at home or work that this will never be a problem. Another thing to consider is that if you are connected to ethernet, then chances are you sitting at a desk in order to be wired up. So the dongle doesn't really interfere with usage.

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