Asus VivoTab Smart (ME400C) Windows 8 Tablet Review

Battery Life

Asus claims that the VivoTab Smart is capable of 9.5 hours of general usage, and we cannot disagree with the company. We managed to achieve seven hours of fairly heavy general usage with the screen using its automatic brightness levels, which included at least an hour of streaming 720P content from YouTube.

The VivoTab Smart gave us four hours of non-stop 720P video streaming from YouTube – an impressive battery life for a demanding task (as proven by the below screenshot).

For basic usage such as web browsing, social networking and sending emails, you should have no problems getting a full 9-5 day of work, and some travelling time, from the VivoTab Smart's 25Wh Li-polymer battery, dependent upon brightness levels, of course.

Heat

Due to the insulating material used on the VivoTab Smart's rear side, the device didn't get particularly hot at any point during usage. We did notice an increase in the temperature of the rear side's top-left area after an intense session of 720P video streaming, but the heat output wasn't considerable enough to cause any concern.

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