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High performance, great battery life and universal wireless connections are all hallmarks of this package.
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If we discover otherwise, we’ll let you know when we update the final review. I also found that the Shift key and the spacebar were somewhat unresponsive on our test unit, but Sony spokespeople assured us that this is a one-off issue unique to our machine.
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My fingers (and I have small hands, and seriously delicate fingers) slipped off of the keys so often that typing this review on the X Series was a hassle. While the spaced keys are attractive, they’re unnaturally small. It isn’t the worst small keyboard I’ve ever used, but sacrificing some prettiness for usefulness might have made sense on Sony’s part. The keyboard offers widely spaced and separate buttons, commonly associated with a MacBook (though, in all fairness, Sony implemented them first). Most of the gestures work, though not as smoothly as they do on Mac touchpads. The touchpad supports gestures such as the iPhone “pinch” for zooming in/out, and a two-finger horizontal “swipe” for flicking through photos. Fortunately, I did have the option of zooming (stutteringly) in.Īlso featured on the X Series are a multigesture touchpad and a built-in Webcam. I, admittedly, have bad eyes, but looking at the tiny screen started to give me a headache after about half an hour. At the highest brightness setting, it was still readable in sunlight (using the highest brightness setting, however, will cut the battery life to 2.5 hours on the standard battery and 12 hours on the extra-life battery).The only problem: The higher resolution hurts the VAIO X Series. The LED-backlit screen looks good both indoors and out.
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Since the machine supports 720p resolutions, we had to throw our higher-quality test video (of a shuttle launch) at it the result was a herky-jerky viewing experience, however. Streaming HD (480p) video from Hulu was fantastic: Image quality was crisp and clear, and colors looked fully saturated. The X Series features a 1366-by-768-pixel, 11.1-inch LCD screen–theoretically, you could get 720p video to run on this machine.
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In my subjective tests, the X Series ran Windows 7 Home Premium Edition smoothly enough, though I did find the machine slowing down when I tried to get more than three programs running at the same time.
#Sony vaio s series specifications Pc#
In PC WorldBench 6 tests, it earned a 39–hardly smoking fast, but better than the average netbook score of 36. The X features a 128GB solid-state drive, 2GB of RAM, and a 2GHz Intel Atom Z550 processor. Don’t forget, that while this looks sweet and costs a fortune, it is still a netbook at heart. Though the laptop may look like a Jaguar, it runs like a Ford Taurus. (For reference, the popular MacBook Air weighs about 3 pounds.) The additional battery brings the weight of the X Series to approximately 2.2 pounds. International jet-setter, we’ve found your PC. It lasts just a few minutes under 15 hours - that’s easily the longest running laptop we’ve tested to date. The laptop comes with two interchangeable batteries: a standard (3.5-hour) battery and a larger, heavier, battery-and-stand combo that supposedly lasts for up to 14 hours, according to Sony spokespeople. The X Series boasts an 11.1-inch screen that measures merely 0.125 inch thick. (Not feeling flashy enough for the limited-edition gold version, like the one we received? The X Series also comes in black.) Measuring 10.95 by 7.29 by 0.55 inches and weighing 1.6 pounds, the X Series out-smalls the MacBook Air and gives the upcoming Dell Adamo XPS a run for its money. I quickly fell for the golden, brushed-aluminum body and the matching widely spaced keys. While this machine is smaller than most netbooks and measures just 0.55 inch thick, it packs a bit more gusto–and, starting at $1299 (our unit sells for $1499, as of 11/10/09), it carries an over-the-top price tag that screams, “CEO only!” Sleek, sexy, and slim, the Sony VAIO X Series is the perfect netbook for the stylish, executive jet-setter.