Nice, but lacking for the price
CNET Editors' Rating
stars - Very good$902.13 to $1,070.80
The good: The Asus VivoBook V551L
is a thin, attractive, and seemingly well-constructed laptop. Its
midrange discrete graphics card and 4th-gen Core i7 processor give it
overall very good performance and battery life. And it has a 1TB hard
drive and DVD burner.
The bad: For
the V551LB's near-$1,000 price, the screen is pretty disappointing, as
is its slow-spinning hard drive. Also, its keyboard is not backlit,
which, again, for the price it should have.
The bottom line: An
attractive, solidly built 15.6-inch thin laptop with overall good
performance, the Asus VivoBook V551LB-DB71T is held back by its
lackluster display.
