Review Sony Vaio VPC-EE4J1E/WI Notebook
Last summoning. When an Athlon is found in a laptop,acer aspire 5100 battery it can only be an low-cost entry device. Find out in this review why it's still good enough for a "good" despite weak performance and poor TFT.Sony VGP-BPS9/S battery
Sony Vaio VPC-EE4J1E/WI: Sony VGP-BPS9 batteryAMD's last summoning by means of the low cost CPU, Athlon II P360, with Radeon HD 4250 chipset graphicsAMD processors in notebooks aren't a rarity, but to find them in a test device only happens every few months. Sony VGP-BPS9A/B batteryThe reason: Apart from the netbook platform, Fusion, AMD has thrown out the old CPUs from the beginning of mid 2010 (Phenom Mobile). And these cores have been clearly left behind by Intel's Arrandale and Sandy Bridge generation in the meantime.
So, when a test Vaio with an entry CPU, Sony VGP-BPS9A/S batteryAthlon II P360 (2x2.30 GHz) now turns up, then it's primarily because of the attractive price design. Sony Vaio VPC-EE models with this (or similar) AMD CPUs are available for starting at 450 euros. Out test device, the VPC-EE4J1E/WI, is found in the virtual shelves for starting at 528 euros.Sony VGP-BPS13A/B battery
The performance debate is a part of the review, but it won't dominate it. More interesting is how much practical suitability the customer gets for his money in the Vaio. In which field is the EE4J1E better,Sony VGP-BPS13 battery office or multimedia? All answers about the stylish Vaio in snow white can be found in this review.Sony VGP-BPS13A/Q battery
Insufficient gaps: DVD tray protrudesMatt silver outside and elegant snow white inside. The Vaio EE4J1E/WI poses for our camera in this attractive,Sony VGP-BPS13/B battery but smudge-sensitive look. A wrist-rest, which gives the impression of being made of smooth china (plastic), begins. The milky white surface has a glittery effect.Sony VGP-BPS13B/B batteryIt starts to sparkle in the sun. The slippery wrist-rest is soon covered with fingerprints, but they remain almost invisible. It continues with a silver bar that conceals the speakers and has the Assist and power button.Sony VGP-BPS13B/Q battery
The lid is kept in place by two small hinges.Sony VGP-BPS13A/S battery They have a good grip, but teeter during adjustments. The display's maximum opening angle is about 135 degrees. The lid's sunken lower edge is a weakness resulting from its design. It doesn't touch the table's surface,Sony VGP-BPS13/Q batterybut the silver coating slides over the table surface when it's lifted at the front. Ugly scratches will soon be the consequence of this.Sony VGP-BPS8 battery
The stability doesn't benefit from the lid despite its thickness. We can bend the lid to an extent when we pick it up at its corners. Sony VGP-BPS8A batteryIt can also easily be dent in the center. The case isn't any better. The front part makes a robust impression. Sony VGP-BPS10 batteryThe bulky wrist-rest doesn't yield anywhere. However, you'll notice the weak torsional stiffness when you pick up the base unit. In particular, the optical drive stands out as a construction weak point. Nevertheless, the Vaio notebook's construction is adequately stable and corresponds to the minimum standard of low-priced laptops. If you put a lot of value on robustness, you'll be disappointed.Sony VGP-BPS2 battery
The user shouldn't be too demanding when it comes to interfaces. Just only HDMI, VGA, Ethernet and four USB 2.0 ports are supplied. Some will miss USB 3.0, others ExpressCard34 or eSATA. Sony installs two cardreaders on the front so that its own Memory Stick HG Duo can be read in addition to common SD memory cards. Sony VGP-BPS2A batteryThis makes sense for the Sony Corporation because HG Duo is the memory card format for its own DSLR cameras, high-end digital cameras and digital camcorder.Sony VGP-BPS2B battery
The Motion Eye Webcam's low resolution of 640x480 pixels (VGA, 0.3MP) is a pity. Sony VGP-BPS2C batteryIt's disappointing because every inexpensive Acer Aspire can take pictures with 1280x1024 pixels. The interfaces' positioning couldn't be more adverse. If you imagine the Vaio completely equipped with cables, Sony VGP-BPS22 battery you'll see drawbacks. A cable harness winds itself across the desk on both sides and deters placing a mouse – no matter on which side. Rear-placed interfaces would have been more practical, but there aren't any.Sony VGP-BPS22A battery
WLAN, in its fastest generation, Sony VGP-BPS13AS battery is supplied by the wireless card in draft n standard (Atheros AR9285). There is no Bluetooth module. The Realtek LAN adapter communicates appropriately in Gigabit style.acer aspire 5920 battery
There are no data carriers. Merely quick start, recovery and service instructions are included acer aspire 5050 battery. The customer has to burn a recovery DVD for securing Windows Home Premium 64bit in its state of delivery (Vaio Assist). There are many Vaio tools installed on the hard disk. acer aspire 5100 battery Users who want to remove the superfluous ballast will invest many hours in identifying sense and nonsense of single tools. The Vaio Control Center, the Data Restore Tool, Smart Network and Vaio Update 5 seem to be feasible. apple a1189 battery
Sony gives a 24 month bring-in warranty for its Vaio. It consists of a 1 year basic warranty plus a 1 year additional warranty. apple a1175 batteryDepending on where it is purchased, the customer should inform himself and, if necessary, secure the 24 months by registering.apple a1185 battery
Unusual for the price range and among consumer laptops: Fujitsu lifebook t4220 batterySony has installed a viable keyboard into the Vaio VPC-EE4. The separate keys exploit the width up to the last corner and the 15.5 inch size allows a standard layout number pad (like in desktop keyboards) to be installed. Fujitsu lifebook t5010 batteryThe accuracy for touch typists is very good because the keys have a conic concavity (almost invisible) besides the non-slip surface, a clear pressure point and a medium key drop.Fujitsu lifebook t4215 battery
However, the clattery key stroke is a shortcoming. Fujitsu lifebook t4210 batteryThe surface coils evidently on the left and right since it doesn't fit tight. The spatially separated arrow keys beneath the large shift and enter key is a good quality.Sony VGP-BPS13S battery
The touchpad is made of the same milky material as the wrist-rest. Sony VGP-BPS13/S battery However, the surface is sprinkled with little knobs. The pad is sensitive up to its edges. A narrow, flat edge divides the touch-surface from the wrist-rest. It is not a multi-touch pad. That means, two finger gestures are not translated into an action. A multi-touch pad would be current standard. Sony VGP-BPS13B/S battery The Alps pad doesn't bid according options.Sony VGP-BPS10/B battery
The pad's feel during use is pleasant.Sony VGP-BPS10A batteryThe finger glides over the knobs without much resistance. The keys have a much too short key drop though and thus provide an insufficient feedback despite their smoothness.Sony VGP-BPS10A/B battery
The screen can't convince us with its low contrasts and glossy character. Sony VGP-BPS10/S batteryWe determine a contrast of only 156:1 for the 15.5 inch screen (1366x768 pixels, WXGA). A higher contrast beyond 500:1 would let colors look more vivid. This way, movies and pictures can't develop their full potential. The glare type optically livens up the colors a bit, though.Sony VGP-BPS21A/B battery
The WXGA resolution is the minimum standard that often meets the limits of overview during work. Sony VGP-BPS21 batteryIf you'd like to work without restrictions, you should take a look at the more expensive sister model, VPC-EB4X1E/BQ with Full HD (1920x1080). As expected, Sony VGP-BPS21A battery the Vaio EE4 doesn't perform miracles in terms of color reproduction and is behind our reference color spectrums (color gamut in ICC profile). A no-go for professionals and demanding consumers.Sony VGP-BPS21/S battery
The LED backlight illuminates the screen with an average of 179 cd/m2. Sony VGP-BPS21/B batteryThere are slight deviations in the corners. The minimum is 164 cd/m2. The varying luminosity can't be seen by the naked eye (homogeneity: 86%).dell vostro 1710 battery
Of course, you'll want to go outdoors with such a stylish,dell vostro 1720 battery white laptop in the summer because you want to be seen with what you have. The viewer looking upon the glare-type will always have to look out for shade. The reason is the reflections on the reflective screen. In addition, there is the low brightness.Dell Vostro 1310 battery We can only recognize a dark picture from the front. We can almost see no writing or colors when looking from the sides.Dell Vostro 1510 battery
Outdoor use, frontal: sun from backThe viewing angles describe up to which deviation a viewer can see unaltered colors and script on the screen. Dell Inspiron 1545 batteryPerfect laptop displays bid a good picture from the side (up to 85 degrees),or up/down views (up to 45 degrees). The Vaio is remote from this.dell xps m1530 battery
The horizontal viewing angles are low. We can recognize unaltered colors up to a deviation of about 45 degrees from the front. Beyond that, Dell inspiron 1721 batteryan increasingly intense inversion sets in. When the eyes sway up or down (vertically), the colors already invert clearly at 15 degrees.dell vostro 1700 battery
Sony equips its 15.5 incher with the AMD dual core, dell latitude e4300 batteryAthlon II P360 (2x2.3 GHz). The CPU only has an L2 cache of 1024 KB. The processor, with a TDP of 25 watts, works with the AMD chipset RS880M and is supported by a 4096 MB DDR3 RAM. The dual channel memory controller (DDR3-1066) is incorporated into the processor.dell latitude e5500 battery
The ATI Radeon HD 4200 (IGP) has, according to GPU-Z, a dedicated 256 MB DDR2 memory. dell xps m1730 batteryThat is unusual for an IGP, but possible via SidePort (expensive solution). Since the manufacturer's website speaks of using the main memory, we also believe that the main memory is used (typically up to 512 MB; BIOS: no options).dell studio 1737 battery The GPU isn't suitable for the latest games. Its performance is only 11% higher than the Intel HD Graphics (2010 Intel Cores) looking at the standard benchmarks (3DMark06). dell latitude e5400 batteryThe HD 4200's actual task is found in the video decoder (UVD 2) for HD videos (MPEG-2, H.264, VC-1). This unburdens the processor.battery dell inspiron e1505
We will compare the Athlon II P360 (2.3 GHz) with Intel's Pentium P6100 (avg. 4318 points) and the 2011 Core i3 processor (i3-2310M, avg. 7448 points) in the processor benchmarks.dell latitude e6500 battery The Athlon remains at only 4206 points in Cinebench R10's Multi-Core Rendering Test (64bit) and thus moves on a Pentium level. The Athlon removes itself from the shopping list of performance conscience buyers, because the Core i3 opponent is already found in many laptops priced between 430 and 500 euros (MSI A6400, HP Pavilion g6-1032eg, Lenovo B570).Dell inspiron 1300 battery
4.1Windows 7 Experience IndexProcessorCalculations per second5.5Memory (RAM)Memory operations per second5.9GraphicsDesktop performance for Windows Aero4.Dell vostro 1400 battery1Gaming graphics3D business and gaming graphics5.3Primary hard diskDisk data transfer rate5.9 CB10 Rendering Single 32Bit 1946 pointsDell inspiron 1420 battery
The synthetic benchmarks, Dell inspiron 1521 batterythe like of CB10 & R11.5, don't advocate the Athlon II P360. What about the application performance? We use PCMark Vantage, a test that checks all components in the computer, including the DDR3 RAM,dell studio 1535 battery the hard disk and HD 4200. 3167 points is the weak result of this effort. i3-2310M systems (Dell Latitude E5420, Aspire 3750) prove to be faster, no matter in which configuration (4300 to 5761 points).Dell inspiron 1525 battery
The experienced application performance in use with Web browsers and DVD players is fast and doesn't give reason for hesitation. Dell latitude e6400 batteryHowever, when several applications are being run at the same time, the execution speed drops noticeably. Dell latitude d620 battery
The low PCMark Vantage score is not least due to the slow Hitachi hard disk. Dell latitude d630 battery The 500 GB HDD reads data from the rotating disks with 65 MB/s in sequential read (average). CrystalDiskMark 3.0's is considerably higher with 83 MB/s, which can be explained by a differing test routine (a difference of 10 MB/s is always there). Dell inspiron 1526 batteryThe HDD first has losses with the poor average access rate of 20.4 milliseconds (see HDTune). Similar HDDs have shorter and thus better rates of 16 to 18 ms here.Dell inspiron 6400 battery
The access rates only bestow the test device with a below average HDD score in PCMark Vantage (2438 points).Dell inspiron 1501 battery First faster rotating, 7200 rpm HDDs achieve higher data throughputs, which can result in a HDD score of 4077 points (HP G62-130EG), for example.Dell vostro 1000 battery
The Vaio EE4J1E/WI doesn't even try to be a gaming laptop.Dell vostro 1520 battery Nevertheless, we want to illustrate the ATI Radeon HD 4200's limited facilities. We determined a very weak 1465 points in 3DMark06. That isn't a good sign for current games. Merely the undemanding game, Fifa 2011, can be played. High details can just still be played smoothly in the native resolution (1366x768).Dell inspiron 1720 battery
Sony's 15.5 incher shows itself from a pleasant side in terms of noise. The fan turns slowly or shuts down completely during surfing, listening to music or typing. Dell vostro 1500 batteryWe measure 30.4 dB(A) in idle, which is the rotating hard disk's idle level. The fan's rotation speed increases up to 33.3 dB(A) during short-term load. Dell latitude d820 battery
3DMark06 doesn't bother the cooling system: 33.6 dB(A). Dell latitude d830 battery The fan first turns up to a maximum of 35.7 dB(A) when the CPU has to also compute in the usual stress test (Furmark & Prime95). The cooling rotates consistently during this. Overall, the fan management makes a good impression on us. Many users won't even notice the fan during office use.dell studio 17 battery
The temperatures continue where the low noise stops.Dell studio 15 batteryThe wrist-rest stays in the light blue area with about 27 degrees. The base plate can reach 35 degrees selectively, but also only in the stress test. Our temperature graph show unalarming rates at all times.dell studio 1535 battery
The average temperature hardly changes during high load. Toshiba PA3534U-1BRSThe collected air is apparently discharged out of the case with a higher frequency than waste air is added. The average of only 28 degrees Celsius (bottom) is due to the large blue fields with rates below 30 degrees.toshiba pa3535u-1brs battery
