First of all, convinced the chic, sleek and stylish design. The size is ideal for smaller offices or those who have little space suitable. By the brushed aluminum surface, the housing is very robust and can therefore also be good on the desk. The noise itself is not recognizable under load. Similarly, the PC was even after a long time under full steam not very hot despite the passive cooling. These attributes, the device is very well suited for open-plan offices.
When working in open-plan offices also speaks the intigrated Wi-Fi, which could make a good and secure connection even with a poor signal. Furthermore, are, despite the size, far from sufficient appropriate ports on the rear panel. Especially since pierces the Kensington Lock into the eye, which can be found rarely in desktop PCs.
A small disadvantage is the missing CD or DVD drive, this must be matched by an external if necessary. As favors our IT software distribution, has been such a part of my not yet needed.
Due to the Core i5 processor and 4GB of RAM to work with most programs is needed in everyday office life possible without problems. Only with programs that I could claim the power of the graphics card to test the limits of the device. Only the hard drive is oversized with 1TB something for my purposes. We store all the data on secure servers in our network.
Positive frightened me was the power consumption, this is 65W negligible.
Through the power and the new operating system Windows 8 PC is also a matter of seconds to use. However, the transition from Windows 7 to Windows 8 for me to only was a greater challenge.
My Conclusion:
If I were not a hobby photographer, so I need a lot of graphics performance. If the Asus Vivo PC under the shortlist. Only for gamers this PC is not suitable, and I suspect that this does not belong to the target group of this unit.
