The Asus VivoBook S551 comes off as a standard package like most touch screen laptops today. The line with an "S" attached to their names has impressed people specifically the Asus VivoBook S400. There are several reasons why the touch screen device is a top pick - it may also have to do with its Intel Haswell processor.

The Asus VivoBook comes with the classic touch screen and clamshell body. It is tiny enough to be considered as an Ultrabook. Nonetheless, it does not fall short of the features and capabilities of a laptop: high capacity and conventional hard disk, optical drive and largish screen.

The VivoBook S551 has all the right ingredients of a laptop and an ultrabook. It stands out from other laptops in the market because it is one of the first waves of computers to use Intel's newest line of processors - the fourth generation core processors. These days, these processors are more popular as Haswells.

The Haswell processors are one of the best points to check how users can benefit from the new S line of the Asus Vivobook Series.

Haswell offers power efficiency. Nearly every laptop running on Intel's fourth generation processor boasts of improved battery life. When Asus releases a higher end S551 running on an Intel Core i5-4350U processor, a dual-core chip in Intel's ultra-low power U-class which can reach up to 1.4GHz, users can expect almost 50% of their battery life saved.

Previously, Intel was able to extent the batter life of the Vivobook up to six hours with its third generation chips. The coming VivoBook S model can last up to 9 hours with the fourth generation processor. This allows users to do more with their device than before. Predictions about the VivoBook S551 also indicate that computing performance is improved by as much as 10-15% but this remains unknown until the actual model comes out.