Tuesday, September 1, 2009

10-inch Sony VAIO W netbook Review

Netbook has a tear for a longer period of time, major manufacturers have introduced their own netbook products, but increasingly rich models. Sony until today to launch its true sense of the netbook products - the Sony VAIO W Series netbook. Before the launch of VIAO P portable book, although initially was considered to be Sony's netbook products, but because of its high price and alternative designs do not appeal to the audience applauded. The introduction of W-series netbook really called on the response to the "voice of the people," although in $699 the price of the netbook is not low, but at least than the VAIO P Kaopu and Sony Pcga-bp2s, Sony Pcga-bp3t.


At present a major netbook crowd just want to have a second computer, a young white-collar workers, so that your VAIO W Series netbook is also walking in appearance fashion line, introduced at the same time there are three colors: strawberry red, coffee brown and white, and the A side and the C face has a different color match. Body size of 267.8 × 179.6 × 27.5-32.4mm, four have done a rounded corner treatment, coupled with its compact size, feel this model is more suitable for young women to use fashion. But unfortunately this is the coffee brown to get the product, a little fashion sense of a lack of vision.
VAIO W relative to the price of Sony's other notebook products, Sony Vgp-bps5, Sony Pcga-bp2v, Sony Pcga-bp4v is relatively inexpensive, so cost will be under control. Body using the material for general engineering plastics, but working reasonably well. Fuselage shell using grinding process, not only to paint a delicate touch than the piano, and not easy to leave fingerprints, and scratches easily. A surface is the middle of the silver VAIO logo prominently highlighted the Sony brand, the logo, although big points, but does not affect the visual appearance.


In the shaft, the Sony VAIO W using the popular sink axle design, the largest opening and closing angle of 130 degrees. If placed on the desktop use does not feel that there is a problem, but the netbook mobile use outdoors, if the words are usually on his knees, so the opening and closing angle seemed a bit small, affect the viewing screen. Since adopted this sinking axle designs, and there is no body behind the interface.
Sony's products, industrial design has always been praised, VAIO W series netbook, though low-end products, but some details are still not lose style makers. Palmrest part of the Although the introduction of plastic materials, but there are concave point grid, so I feel would be better, especially when sweating does not affect the operation.


Sony VAIO W keyboard with floating keyboard design, commonly known as "chocolate" Sony Pcga-bp71 keyboard design is also one of contemporary pop. Uses a 82 key keyboard, keycap size is about 13.54mm, keystrokes height 1.2 mm, although the distance between the keycap getting bigger, but the actual use of feelings felt very general, the user is very difficult for men to use.


Sony VAIO W of the touch pad area in general, but above the printed pattern, looks to be pretty much. Feel too bad either, to use relatively smooth, but it does not support multi-point touch. There are three lights above the touch pad,
Sony VAIO W interface is still relatively wide, and has a Fast Ethernet cards, 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, VGA output port, two USB 2.0 port, Memory Stick Duo memory card slot and SD / MMC slot combo.


Body front-end design with a wireless switch, MS + SD card reader and power button. Ratio is about the power button push-pull design, and equipped with an indicator, you can view the current state of operation.


Fuselage on the right arrangements are 2 USB interface, cable interface, what notebook keyhole.
The left side of the fuselage arrangement Power Interface, a vent, VGA port, audio input and output interface.
In the battery, the standard of 11.1V/2100mAh 3-cell lithium-ion battery, battery capacity is not great. The actual use of time at around three hours or so, this ability can only say that life in general.
Standard 3-cells lithium-ion sony battery(Sony Vgp-bps2, Sony Vgp-bps3)


Sony VAIO W using the current mainstream of the 10.1-inch LED screen, but the screen resolution of 1366x768 pixels was achieved, compared to other mainstream 10-inch netbook products used in a lot of good 1024x600 resolution.
Sony VAIO W used Atom N280 processor, this processor, and are more familiar with using 45-nanometer Diamondville core, the core clock speed to 1.66GHz, FSB upgraded to 667MHz, built-in 512KB L2 Cache, support for Hyper - Threading technology that supports Hyper-Threading HT.
From PCmark 05 test results, the scores, and other mainstream netbook is almost the same configuration. Although the game to be inadequate, but the netbook would have been, Sony PCGA-BP2NX and what is not intended to be used to play games, daily office and the Internet to meet their needs.
Test results from the hard drive, the smallest read transfer rate of 7.4MB / s, maximum read transfer rate of 60.6MB / s, the average is 46.8MB / s, and other mainstream netbook similar.

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