0 Sony VAIO VPC-SA2FGX/BI Review

Sony has a long history of producing ultra-stylish design has its roots in VPC-SA2FGX/BI more evident. Metal structure is completely covered with a mixture of aluminum and magnesium, you'd be hard to find any trace of plastic here than the Acer Aspire 6431-AS3830TG ($ 750 street, the 4 stars), which uses only the aluminum cover and palm rest . Sony is not as thin as the MacBook Air from Apple 13-inch (Thunderbolt) ($ 1,299 direct, 4 stars) or the Samsung Series 9 ($ 1,650 list, 4 stars), because it contains a built-in DVD burner, and complex parts that require larger vessels. It weighs 3.5 pounds, nearly five ounces heavier than the 3.2-pound Toshiba Portege R835 P50X ($ 850 list, 4 stars) Another ultra-portable optical drive.

Sony VAIO VPC-SA2FGX/BI

Sony VAIO VPC-SA2FGX/BI

Sony displays are probably the best in class because they have no hesitation in high resolutions. The 13.3-inch widescreen on VPC-SA2FGX/BI is not only brilliant, but its 1600 by 900 resolution makes it look sharper than the Portégé R835-P50X screens and 9 Series, with their 1366 by 768 resolutions Don 't even compare. Sony uses the same solution in impressive VAIO PCV-Z214GX-one laptop $ 2000. The Chiclet-style keyboard does not necessarily give a unique writing experience, but serious typists will love it, if only the backlight. You can also find the backlit keyboards on the series 9 and 13-inch MacBook Air. The touchpad and mouse buttons are larger than the R835-AS3830TG and P50X, and uniform size with them on a traditional laptop.

Features

The P50X VPC-SA2FGX/BI and R835 are two of the lightest ultraportables that include a DVD, Blu-ray, although, as found in the Sony VAIO PCV-SC1AFM ($ 979.99 list, 3.5 stars) have completed the resolution of display dramatically. There is an HDMI port, which can be used for streaming audio and video to an external monitor or HDTV. The other way to do it without wires, is the use of Intel Wireless Display (WIDI) 2.0, which is essentially a wireless version of HDMI, but requires a Push2TV Netgear receiver (not included) to connect the laptop screen at any time.

Bluetooth and 802.11n to illuminate VPC-SA2FGX/BI. The doors are heavy, with two USB 2.0, USB 3.0 (capable of transferring data at up to ten times the speed of USB 2.0), VGA and Ethernet and slots for SD and Memory Stick associated with the HDMI port. I complained about the placement: they are all located on the right side. Matches 500 GB hard disk can be found in the Acer AS3830TG, but is less than R835-P50X (640).

This particular configuration SA sold through the Microsoft Store. This is exactly the same system that is available on the Sony website or resellers, with one exception: Microsoft bands signature service VPC-SA2FGX/BI most third party software and proprietary, which is notorious for Sony combination with its laptops. A computer without bloating, this means that the software unusable will not bind valuable system resources. The second part of the signature is that VPC-SA2FGX/BI includes 90 days of free technical support from Microsoft, on top of the factory warranty of one year. You also have the option to turn that 90 days in a full year by graduating to Signature Premium, a $ 99 add-on.

Performance

The VPC-SA2FGX/BI considered a powerful ultra-portable because it uses a standard voltage Intel Core i5-2410M processor instead of the low voltage (and low power) chip as the MacBook Air 13 inch This ninth series Sony has helped earn a good score of 2.57 in our Cinebench test R11.5, and showed that you can easily use it for editing videos and photos. The laptop is finished our test handbrake video converter in an impressive 1 minute and 57 seconds in our Photoshop CS5 4:13, corresponding to the time we've seen from AS3830TG (04:20), but much faster than the Air 13-inch is 5:53 to 4:55 ET 9 Series. It is in the heavy tasks such as some side effects began to appear. You could hear the fans are set in motion high and back vents spewed enough hot air to make the unit run very hot. The system worked calm and cool while we surf the web and watching videos, though.

Sony VAIO VPC-SA2FGX/BI

Sony VAIO VPC-SA2FGX/BI

VPC-SA2FGX/BI is also present in the switching system graphics that you can choose whether to Intel integrated graphics solutions and AMD Radeon 6630M separated. This process is not automatic, because it is portable (as AS3830TG), which supports Nvidia Optimus technology: you flip a switch physically located above the keyboard to activate it. AMD graphics helped Sony achieve impressive results in 3DMark 06 (8018) and Crysis (59.1 frames per second, or fps) to 1024-by-768 and medium settings, this laptop should be able to handle most popular games. You can get a similar experience (and less heat) AS3830TG from Acer.

While Sony's battery life 4 hours 37 minutes (as tested with Mobile Mark 2007) looks respectable, it pales in comparison to what we could see AS3830TG (8:18), and R835-P50X (9:26). The power-hungry components are partly responsible, which is why Air 13-inch and 9 Series choosing the low voltage battery and he saw a better result (05:36 and 06:04, respectively). That's why, in this configuration with the slide extended battery (49Wh), who works with a standard. This battery Sony has helped almost double the battery, 9 hours and 5 minutes, but he also added an extra pound of weight system.

Sony VAIO ultraportable components VPC-SA2FGX/BI is fully charged and functional management skills. It 'can handle the toughest tasks you might face, but you should note the caveats: The noise of the fan and the heat does not come into play, if this machine is gone too, and the standard battery alone will not necessarily survive long way to go. This is a nice ultraportable, regardless, but the money would be better to use Acer Aspire 6431 or Toshiba Portege AS3830TG-R835-P50X.