Jan 31 2009
SONY VAIO VGN-Z13GN/B: Powerful addition to the ultraportable family.
Sony VAIO’s have an ardent fan following and the latest VAIO the VGN-Z13GN/B is a powerful addition to the ultraportable family.
The new Z series aim at well heeled buyers who look for highly portable machine that does not lack any or sacrifice any performance over a regular laptop.VAio Z body is made up of carbon fibre which results in the decrease in weight.
Z13 has 2.53 GHz Intel Core Duo P9500 processor it gives us a speedy performance. Memory installed is 4GB of extremely fast 1,066 MHz DDR3 RAM. It has got a real clincher a 256MB nVidia 9300M GS discrete graphics card which means we benefit from the processing power of one and frugalness of the other.
When it comes to a battery life and its crucial then graphical grunt we have to simply flick the switch above the keyboard’s left edge from Speed to Stamina and without a restart the system switches into the integrated graphics card cuts power to non essential item such as firewire port and modem.Storagewise VAIO Z has a roomy 320 GB hard drive’s series features an LED backlit display which makes the screen to be thin nearly 5mm.The screen is of non reflective type. Inside the VAIO z it improves with now standard tubular hinge section. The keyboard is much more like the new Mac Book keyboard with its isolated style keys.
In case of connectivity we get an HDMI output for our LCD TV .wireless features it has Draft N Wi FI and Bluetooth along with Gigabit Ethernet. We can achieve four hours of battery life by using it in a stamina mode.
Like most VAIO machines it is pricey but if we are a demanding user and a frequent traveller then the price is well worth it.
