Sunday, 29 May 2011

Sony Vaio SB1V9E review




The business-oriented Sandy Bridge ultraportable laptop ushers a classy design. Explore more with our review to unravel its processsing power.
With technology industry seriously eyeing the Sandy Bridge equipped models, Sony made the move by introducing its first Sandy Bridge ultraportable laptop, the Vaio SB1V9E.
The new ultraportable offering claims to be impressive with a stylish yet understated design. At just 1.7kg, the VAIO S series comes with a built-in DVD writer. The laptop is well made with a magnesium and aluminium black chassis.
Sony Vaio SB1V9E combines power and portability, thereby boosting performance efficiency. Thanks to its large, responsive and comfortable keyboard, which makes typing of long documents, fast and accurate.
Though the large touchpad supports multitouch, it may frustrate you at times with Windows causing delay in response to the finger swipes. The SB1C5E features a full-speed Core i5 mobile processor unlike its other rivals that support energy efficient but comparatively slow ultra low voltage processors.
Unlike other ultraportable laptops which use ultra low voltage processors, which are energy efficient but comparatively slow, the SB1C5E uses a full-speed Core i5 mobile processor. Paired with 4GB of RAM it sped through our benchmarks, managing a high score of 53 in our new cross-platform applications benchmarks. It's noticeably quicker than older Core 2 Duo-based laptops, but the difference isn't as pronounced when compared to previous generation Core i5 laptops.
The underside of the laptop didn't become uncomfortably warm when it was churning through our demanding benchmarks, but the cooling fan was irritatingly loud. It's especially annoying since the fan kicked in even during seemingly simple, innocuous tasks such as web browsing.

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