I was planning to get a laptop for myself for such a long time, and here it is finally. My laptop, a SONY VAIO SR 46 GD Black. (After long long sessions of market surveys and user reviews)
Well, the moment I laid my hands on this master-piece, I just fell in love with it.
Its got just the killer specs for my kinda use.
Design and Build:
Its a sleek 13.3" Widescreen LED display, with crystal clear glossy screen. And the screen is thinner than I expected. It weighs less than 2 kgs. Very light for a laptop with these kinda specs.
The exteriors are awesome, true Sony VAIO styling. The keypad is way too cool, with discrete keys that are too soft to touch and type. The track-pad is smooth as well. The buttons in the track-pad have pretty good sensitivity and are easy to use.
Between the left click and the right click buttons is the Finger Print Sensor (a security feature).
Features:
It has an Intel Core2Duo P8700 processor which clocks at 2.53 Ghz. Pre-loaded with Windows Vista Business 64 bit, 4 gigs of RAM, and a 320 GB HDD.
It has a CD/DVD drive to the right along with 2 USB ports and an Ethernet port.
To the left is the Headphone, Mic slots with VGA port, HDMI port , S400 and Express card slots.
To the front is the Wireless Switch, Magic-gate and SD card slot. The cool feature of this laptop, is the SWITCH buttons to the top of the keypad, which allows you to switch between various user profiles and use the general purpose buttons as per the profile.
It's equipped with an inbuilt webcam and a mono-aural microphone (still very sensitive).
To the top of the keypad is the speakers, which are not as powerful as I expected.
It has got inbuilt Bluetooth and WLAN modules as well.
Here comes the special mention. It comes with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570 GPU, which is by far a very good performer, with 512 MB of dedicated graphics memory.
Performance:
From the first few hours of usage, I can claim for sure that its seriously a good performer.
The laptop was very cool, even after I downloaded stuff from the internet for hours together.
The noise is zero. There is absolutely no noise from either the fan or from the Optical drive.
The screen resolution is brilliant, and the laptop is overall a dream machine.
Backup and Recovery:
The laptop doesn't come with Vista CD, and you are supposed to create recovery disks yourself, right after buying your laptop, which can be used to install Vista again in future .
I first did a BIOS update and regular VAIO updates before creating the recovery disks. It would take you 3 DVDs to create the recovery disks.
Its just a day since I bought this laptop, and it's too early to comment fully bout the machine. These are just based on the first impressions.
Hope this laptop serves its purpose to the fullest.
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