 This is Sean Hollister with The Verge, and I'm here with the Vizio CT15, a no-nonsense beauty of a thin and light Ultrabook PC. At 3.96 pounds and.68 inches thick, it's a slim, trim machine, despite the fact that it has a 15.6 inch screen, and it looks even slimmer than it actually is, thanks to the beveled black edges that recede into the bottom of the frame. You don't get a lot of ports on this machine, with just a couple of USB 3.0 sockets, an HDMI jack, and a headphone port, but you do get a Core i7 processor, a 256GB solid state drive, and a beautiful screen. The IPS screen has wide viewing angles, deep blacks, and generally looks crisp, clear, and fairly bright. But unfortunately, the rest of the Vizio's accoutrements can't quite seal the deal. The keyboard is extremely shallow, and yet you need to press down hard on the stiff keys to get them to actuate reliably. The touchpad feels good at first, with perhaps just a little bit too much friction to its textured surface, but you soon realize that gestures lag, including ones as simple as tap to click. Last but most assuredly not least, and the reasons why you wouldn't want to pick the CT15, is its battery life. We got about 3 hours and 20 minutes on our Verge battery test, and about the same in real world use. It may be called an Ultrabook, but without the portability to match, it's a hard sell. Despite the lovely screen and eye-catching design of the CT15, I can't really recommend it to you unless you're looking to go for the $900 version and settle for its faults. But we do have high hopes for the Vizio CN15, another Vizio laptop with the same design and screen, but with a quad-core processor, Nvidia graphics, and the ports that the CT15 lacked.