Sony brings fashion to Vaio CS

Sony Vaio CS is a 14.1-inch laptop that supports multimedia entertainment with outstanding LED display system and optional Blu-ray drive.

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Sony Vaio CS has many colors. Photos: iTechnews .

Vaio CS has a fashion design aimed at office ladies, with colorful colors such as pink, bright red or luxurious with glossy black and classic white or noble brown. Vaio CS also possesses the most modern technologies such as Blu-ray drive option, well meet entertainment needs to enjoy music and watch HD movies.

Tested model - Sony Vaio CS (VGN-CS220J / T) has a shiny copper brown color with a line running around the bright yellow screen edges. The inside is still a uniform glossy brown tone, joined by a black keyboard. Both the keyboard and the touchpad have a rough surface, and the mouse is more comfortable with a smooth surface. Below the front edge is the LED light system that shines to the showy. When listening to music with Vaio MusicBox software, the light will flash according to the tune which looks very interesting.

Although plastic material, but the details in the machine look soft and gentle. When opening the lid you will hear a small crack, but not so that the durability of the machine is "doubtful" because the metal frame protects very firmly. In addition, a good elastic plastic cover, protecting the inner curtain, even when pressing or emphasizing on this shell, the image on the screen is not discolored. Sony's surface coating technology is also highly appreciated for bright and shiny colors.

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14-inch mirror screen, 16:10 frame rate. Photo: Mybestlaptop .

14.1-inch mirror LCD screen has a traditional 16:10 frame rate of 1,600 x 800 pixel resolution, giving bright and sharp images with high contrast. But with mirror screens, outdoor use is limited but only suitable when "sunset" arrives. The viewing angles are at a medium level, the image is fast-changing when moving vertically about 20 degrees. The horizontal direction is better, the color and brightness of the image remains the same until it moves outside the screen edge.

The "chiclet" keyboard of Sony Vaio is similar to Apple's Macbook keyboard layout with floating and extended keys, but the size of the keys is somewhat smaller than that of a regular keyboard. Therefore, for novices with Vaio laptops, typing the wrong keys is very easy. But once you get used to it, it feels very comfortable, the keys are firm and smooth. The touchpad is wide, the surface is rough with two separate mouse buttons handy. But both the touchpad and the two mouse buttons need to be upgraded because while the touchpad is not yet sensitive to the fast movements of the fingertips from one edge to the other or the rotating mouse, the two hard mouse buttons require a lot of pressing force.

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The Vaio CS lacks HDMI ports. Photo: Blogspot .

Being classified as multimedia entertainment laptop, but Vaio CS lacks HDMI port, instead there is the option of Blu-ray drive. The lack of HDMI port means limited connectivity with high-end entertainment systems with high-quality images and sound. Another feature that has not yet been equipped with eSATA connectivity has become popular in laptops of the same type. The basic connectivity of Vaio CS includes 3 USB ports, VGA, headphone / microphone jacks, firewire, LAN, modem and SD card slot, MS.

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Sony Vaio CS price ranges from 16.5 to 24 million, depending on configuration.
Photo: Newtechnology .

The performance of the device is also not outstanding, at the average level when comparing similar models also use integrated graphics card. With an Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 processor and 4 GB of RAM, the system performs good entertainment applications such as compressing music and video for mobile devices, such as MP3, PMP and phones, or even Watch smoother HD video formats 720p and 1080p resolutions. The integrated X4500 graphics card also supports the processing and export of images from Blu-ray discs. Vaio CS is not a machine suitable for gaming and the system will work more powerful with a hard drive with 7,200 rpm.

The battery life of Vaio CS is better than other 14.1-inch laptops. With the included 6-cell battery, running Windows Vista with brightness set at 70%, Vaio CS can work for 3 hours 51 minutes. In addition, Sony also offers a choice of batteries with higher power storage capacity for this model.

In Vietnam market, Sony Vaio CS has 4 main colors are red, pink, black and white, with diverse configurations with selling prices ranging from 16.5 to 24 million VND.