Vizio CT14-A0 14-Inch Thin Light Ultrabook Laptop PC (1.80GHz Intel Core i3-3217U Processor, 4GB RAM 128GB SSD Windows 7 Home Premium) Silver

I have been playing with this ultrabook for a week now and I am really surprised that this product isnt selling more quantities. Even after reading all the positive reviews about how beautiful this device is, I was still incredibly surprised by its sheer beauty. It's very very fast, looks as beautiful as McB Air and about as thin, comes with no bloatware at all which adds so much to the computing experience on this device and an incredibly sharp screen resolution.I won't go into the tech specs since more users have done a better job of it than I can, however you will see polarizing views on how acceptable/bad the trackpad and keyboard is on this machine. Ultimately it comes down to how you would like to use this device. I looked at it as a cost benefit analysis where I just could not get the same specs on any machine for the price of $599. I personally do not find the keyboard and trackpad to be as unusable as some of the users have mentioned but then again I am only using this machine as my entertainment device with browsing and some office work.To avoid disappointment, identify why exactly are you looking for a laptop and then go to a physical store and use the device to get a sense of whether this is for you or not. I personally would recommend this device to all my friends. Best $599 dollars I ever spent.update 9th nov 2012:The ultrabook is still quite fantastic and the trackpad issues are not even noticeable but the keyboard remains a bit of an annoyance. Personally I still wouldn't dock a start because it is still great value for money for my needs. Just updated to Windows 8 and though this laptop isn't touch compatible the experience on Windows 8 has been really really good. The laptop now shuts down in about 4 seconds and boots up in about 6-7 sec which is almost as good as a tablet. As developers come up with more applications for this OS, the experience will only get better and the cost of buying Windows 8 for just $16 is also a no brainer. There is a bit of a learning curve to using it but as with any new technology adoption, the first 3-4 hours of usage are the toughest and then it gets better.At $750 ish the appeal of this machine goes down a bit because put in another $100 or so and you can get decent ultrabooks for the price. So glad I bought it when I did. I would still recommend that you use it personally in a store before buying so that you ensure you get the value for what you are spending.

I only gave this laptop 3 stars because I feel like more people will give my review more credence because of it. I really don't like this laptop. Straight out of the box the battery does not charge and the laptop is unable to connect to the internet. I got this laptop because it was cheap and looks really good, I respected that it was old and that it wouldn't be as fast as the current computers, but the specs make it out to be a great deal. My keyboard didn't flex much but the track pad did have a weird sensitivity.Overall this laptop looks incredible! It doesn't feel cheap or type wrong as long as you press the key like you actually meant to press it.It is incredibly thin and lightweight, definitely the lightest I've ever held! I would give it a 5 star review if it didn't have those two critical errors, a faulty battery and wifi connector.

ORIGINAL REVIEW (September 2012):Vizio's 14" ultra-thin notebook just arrived in what seemed to be pristine condition, but during Windows start-up I was unable to type in "Vizio" as the computer name because the SHIFT, "V" and "Z" keys did nothing! Same problem with the "X" and C" keys in the same row.I'm sending it back for another one---but only because our Vizio TV has served us so well for many years. We shall see if this is worth the effort.Needless to say, I'm a bit disappointed with the out-of-the-box experience---and the initial quality of this product.UPDATE #1: A replacement arrived a QUICK four days later. (Amazon sure makes returning merchandise painless.) I am happy to report that all the keys on the replacement notebook worked!!Pros: The small number of processes running on Vizio's version of Windows is truly impressive. My "high-end" HP laptop needs an extra 2 Gbyte to have the same amount of free memory as the Vizio when runnng under Windows 7. This is a cool machine...literally. And, it is absolutely silent...except for the clicking of the (now working) keys.Cons: The keyboard lettering is truly stupid. Stylish is fine, but when one needs to "peek" at the keys, it would be nice if the SHIFT key functions were readable. The "touch" of they keys is fine---but talk to me in another 12 months AFTER I have had time to get some "crude" under the keys. I am not a fan of touch pads...and this one isn't going to change my mind about that. A Bluetooth mouse solved that problem. (I do wish a IBM Thinkpad-style "pointing stick" was an option. [sigh])Bottom line: We are going to keep it. :-)UPDATE #2 (April 3, 2013):Six months into the replacement Vizio Ultrabook the solid-state drive (SSD) has failed. It had been hanging and needing reboot every few days. Now it will not boot. Not just a few errors but errors everywhere on the C-drive. Windows startup repair hangs up doing nothing. Booting the notebook into Linux and copying the disk drive image to a USB drive showed hard errors every few gigabytes. TOTAL LOSS of data on the Windows disk partition.In baseball you get three strikes---but with PC hardware two is enough to tell you're OUT! Pure JUNK!!!!UPDATE #3 (December 2014):Since the previous review this device has experienced disk stores failures and refused to boot Windows 7 two more times. Both times we ended up loosing everything stored on the "disk" and having to "restore" Windows from the "disk" partition reserved for that. I've stopped trying to use this laptop for anything important. We have it plugged into our (Vizio) TV's HDMI port and use it to play videos---stored elsewhere on our home network. The solid-state disk drive (SSDD) in this device is clearly flawed. The last time I restored Windows 7 from the "restore" partition---and waited to apply over 100 Windows 7 updates---I disabled as many Windows services as I could, plus disabled almost all "event recording", in order to minimize writes to the disk. That seems to have helped keep the disk from screwing up again---but we shall see.My daughter bought a different model Visio laptop soon after "UPDATE #1" and experienced the similar problems with the laptop's solid-state disk. Once again Windows 7 needed to be restored from the partition reserved for this. She bought another laptop and put the Vizio on a shelf.My advice to others has to be NOT to buy any Visio laptops. Stick to their fine TVs!