Review Imagine my joy when asked to try out a 3D entertainment centre built into a Sony Vaio notebook. Imagine my disappointment, then, when I discover that the notebook in question is actually too big to fit in my notebook bag.
Sony’s Vaio VPCF21Z1E: don’t think of it as an overgrown notebook but as a very portable gaming PC.
Less a notebook than a 1,000-page grimoire with oak covers, the nattily named VPCF21Z1E/BI is one of those portable computers probably intended to replace a Desktop computer. This is true, in the sense that it’s about the same size as my Desktop computer. Read the rest of this entry »
Review Sony discovered it had a major problem when the first round of netbooks hit the market in late 2007. Having spent years educating well-heeled consumers that small notebooks were expensive, shoppers were hit by a deluge of small, light laptops that did everything they wanted for a fraction of Sony’s traditionally high prices.
Sony’s Vaio X series: weight loss comes at a price
Sony finally caved, and produced the tempting, sub-£500 Mini W, which frankly only makes the admittedly beautiful X series even stranger. At £1200 in its cheapest incarnation, it’s perhaps the most expensive Atom-powered machine available today – an odd contradiction, since spending more money on a laptop normally results in more power. Read the rest of this entry »
First Look Sony’s Vaio X is a skinny so and so, to a degree that puts even Apple‘s MacBook Air to shame. Likewise its weight. But is it too compact for a notebook?
Sony’s Vaio X: pricey for a notebook, very expensive for a netbook… which is what it is
Sony is pitching the machine at business travellers, and since the entry level X will be priced at around £1300 few others are likely to be able to afford one. Even if they can, there’s the fact that you can buy three 11in netbooks for the same price as the X, which also has an 11in screen, albeit one in a rather more bendy lid than most other machines of its ilk possess. Read the rest of this entry »
