I was really disappointed when my previous Sony Vaio died, and if Sony had offered me this review of their newer improved S series sooner I would never have purchased my new laptop a few months ago and you guys would not have this opportunity I put before you at the end of this post.ġ year on-site service. (I’m using more stock photos than I usually do in reviews because it was hard for me to get a great shot of this computer, my skills are only so good. I’m really hard on machines…Oh and I have to mention that kids are not easy on machines either.
Because right in the middle of doing 20 things at one time I’ll decide to open up a photo editing software suite and get some photos ready for a recipe post.
I’m always using Windows 7 with Microsoft Outlook always open so you can probably tell that I need a powerful machine. I travel a lot, use twitter, tweetdeck is almost always open and it’s a power hog, I probably have 15 IE windows open at a time and four or five windows of Firefox. His and Hers computers and my husband’s had a tragic accident with the screen in only a few short months, but mine lasted over two years of really intense usage. Under real-worldĬonditions, you should get closer to the 5 hours that Sony quotes for this model.My husband and I purchase laptops that we can get a discount on through his work and in September of 2009 we purchased two Sony Vaio laptops from Sony. The laptop managed to keep puffingĪway for 1 hour and 32 minutes in the intensive Battery Eater Classic test. As a result, you'll have to turn down the detail in newer games to get them to play at a half-decent frame rate.īattery life is also pretty average. This resulted in a score of 4,274 in the 3DMark06īenchmark test, which isn't exactly earth-shattering. Of a dedicated GeForce 310M graphics card. On the graphics front, Intel has called in a little help from its friends at Nvidia, in the form
That indicates fairly potent performance and means the laptop will have little trouble handling demanding tasks like high-definition video editing. In the PCMark05 benchmark test, the VPC-S13V9E/B posted a Processing muscle comes courtesy of a dual-core Intel Core i5-460M The laptop runs the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Professional, and Sony has equipped it withĪ fairly generous 6GB of RAM. In fact, we'd rate itĪs one of the best keyboards we've come across on a 13-inch laptop. The keyboard is alsoīacklit, with the lighting controlled via an ambient light sensor, so it only turns itself on when Wide spacing between the keys, makes it feel very responsive. The keyboard is firmly anchored into theĬhassis, with the result that there's almost no flex at all in the centre. Like other Sony laptops, the VPC-S13V9E/B uses a keyboard with isolated keys.
Like the F-series machine that we looked at recently, this model has rounded screen hinges that house a power socket on the left-hand side and a glowing power button on the right. Masculine design looks quite the business. Nevertheless, the laptop feels remarkably sturdy and the Many other ultra-portables come in under the 1.5kg mark. It's not exactly a featherweight either, tipping the scales at 2kg. For an ultra-portable laptop, the VPC-S13V9E/B is quite thick and wide, measuring 330 by 28 by 229mm.