Sony Vaio VGN-CS11S office lady

The CS continues the success of CR with its fine lines, beautiful colors, and parallelism that are powerful configurations - the new Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26 GHz processor, 320 GB hard drive to support the office work and entertainment.

Sony's best-selling 2008 series, Vaio VGN-CR, was continuously improved by Sony with the CS series. Like its brother, the Vaio VGN-CS has 5 brilliant colors: dark red Sangria, Cosmopolitan pink, glossy brown, with two traditional black and white colors.

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Vaio VGN-CS11S / W 14 inch screen. Photo: Trustedreviews .

Vaio VGN-CS11S / W possesses more 'curves' with slender beveled edges evenly spread across the corners of the lid. The Vaio logo with chrome alloy is shiny in the middle and the tiny Sony text on the front edge.

This machine is like the CS series, also has a moderate mirror screen (14 inches), a resolution of 1,200 x 800 pixels, using Xbrite technology for sharp images with high contrast. With the support of NVIDIA Geforce 9300 GS 128 MB graphics card, 4 GB RAM DDR2 800 MHz high capacity memory based on Intel Centrino processor Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26 GHz 3 MB L2 Cache 1.066 MHz FSB, The machine is powerful and still saves power. 320 GB HDD Sata hard drive, 5,400 rev / min rpm allows for comfortable storage of HD files. This computer has the ability to export high quality movies, vivid digital photos.

1.3 Megapixel webcam with built-in microphone in the middle of the screen, convenient for voice chats, VoIP exchange or video conferencing.

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The outstanding Vaio logo. Photo: Trustedreviews .

The CS11S / W keyboard is spacious, the distance between the keys is wide and will not encounter any confusion when typing continuously. If the CR510E media keys are disqualified as 'neck', the CS11S / W is equipped with a range of touch media keys based on a modern LED system. The volume control key is set quite far, so when you press the user, you don't have to search and control. However, these keys emit a "beep" sound when pressed so sometimes a little uncomfortable. To get rid of that trouble, there's only one way to turn off the sound (Mute).

The speakers that Sony equipped for CS11S / W only give average sound quality, but the sound output is very clear, no distortion when loudly opened.

The touchpad is more modern than other Sony laptops. The designer cleverly intertwined the metallic 'material' of two bright mouse buttons with the tone of the rough surface touchpad creating a color similarity with the lid. Both touchpad and 2 mouse buttons are very responsive, convenient to use with non-slip rough surface.

While there have been many improvements compared to VGN-CR510E, the CS11S / W has not been equipped with an HDMI port for HD TV output. In addition, the necessary connections are guaranteed, such as charging port, VGA port, 2 USB ports, LimeWire port, Headphone / Micro jacks (left flank); DVD-Writer optical drive or Bluray drive, Express Card, add a USB port, and LAN port (right side). The front is the memory card slot, one for Sony MS cards and one for SD cards.

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Multimedia touch keys. Photo: Trustedreviews .

The machine has the width / horizontal / thick dimensions of 336 x 245 x 40 mm respectively. Weight with battery is about 2.5 kg. Using 6 cell 4,400 mAh battery, based on 32-bit Windows Vista Home Premium operating system running basic office and media applications, VGN-CS11S / W can operate in about 3.5 hours.

With new Intel Centrino processor Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26 GHz 3 MB L2 Cache 1,066 MHz FSB, 4 GB DDR2 800 MHz RAM, SATA 320 GB HDD, rotation speed of 5,400 rpm, graphics card NVIDIA Geforce 9300 GS 128 MB, the device still proved to be inferior to other rivals such as Dell Studio 15 or HP dv5 in terms of time-efficient processing of graphics and media applications.

Vaio VGN-CS11S / W is sold in Vietnam market with many different configurations and quite different prices. Basic configuration of selling price is about 1,000 - 1,300 USD.