SONY VAIO S LAPTOP REVIEWS PRO

As long as your work doesnвЂ™t involve anything as strenuous as large Excel sheets, that is. In real-world use, youвЂ™re not going to care whether you have a 3rd Gen Ryzen chip or a 5th Gen one under the hood. Given that this laptop is running a 2-yr old APU - AMD-speak for a CPU with an onboard GPU - performance is passable. Brightness is also a middling 227 nits, which is only enough for indoor use. Contrast ratio was measured at 1100:1 but colour gamut came in at a mere 57 percent sRGB.

SONY VAIO S LAPTOP REVIEWS PRO

Testing with an i1Display Pro Plus colorimeter confirms my suspicions. Reds tend towards orange and videos generally seem a bit washed out.

The screen is decent, with good contrast but poor colour depth. ThereвЂ™s no Windows Hello compatible webcam or fingerprint reader for logging in, and you power up the device with an archaic, green and glowy power button. The keys are backlit and the trackpad is responsive, but for some reason, I found the keys hard to index at first. Opening the lid raises the base to improve airflow and reveals a large, 15.6-inch display and a proper keyboard with numpad. The choice of materials and the simplicity of the design, however, makes it feel like it was built to a price. The design is simple and angular, and somehow reminiscent of the original Vaios. That dullness extends to the specs, however, with Vaio offering an AMD Ryzen APU from 2019 - the 3700U - paired with 8 GB RAM and 512 GB of storage. Better yet, in stark contrast to the Vaio that seared my eyes a decade ago, this laptop comes in a more pleasant dull grey. ItвЂ™s missing the Sony branding - the two companies parted ways in 2014 - but the design language is familiar. Image: Tech2/Anirudh Regidi Vaio is rebornДЇast-forward to 2021, and almost exactly a decade later, IвЂ™m looking at yet another VaioВ вЂ“ the E15. The Vaio E15 is a decent piece of kit, but it's high pricing makes it impossible to recommend.

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