AVizio, the company that sells millions of HDTVs at Costco, Walmart and Sam's Club every year, set its sights on cracking something different this summer: the Windows laptop market, and it didn't just want to be another player. It wanted to stick out in the sea of similar ultrabooks (a term coined by Intel to describe a new category of thin and light Windows laptops).
Vizio focused on design, struck a deal with Microsoft to preload a clean version of Windows and perhaps most important, figured out how to offer what it does best in TVs: a good array of specs at an affordable price (the 14-inch version starts at $898, $948 for the 15-inch model).
But I had one question when the Vizio Thin + Light 14" Laptop arrived on my doorstep for review: Can a company that has been so successful at creating and selling affordable televisions really hack it as a computer maker?
It was when I was getting the laptop out of the box or my bag at work that I was the most impressed with the machine.
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