subject: Sony Duo 11 Slide Notebook Evaluation [print this page] Sony's new fall of the called VAIO Duo 11Sony's new fall of the called VAIO Duo 11. In fact, the first time I saw this product when editing is very difficult to make it clear that in the end is a Tablet PC or a laptop. When the slide is closed, VAIO Duo 11 looks like a very thin and light Tablet PC, but pushed up, this 11-inch device is more like a very chic notebook.
, VAIO Duo 11's emergence is not surprising in the case of deformation of the prevalence of this year, seen the flip of this, see products like slider phone then dual the people will not be too surprised. More interesting is the Sony VAIO Duo 11 Creative and Toshiba the U920T slide notebook similar to this style of notebook two Japanese manufacturers seemed to respected. Equipped with a keyboard, have full intel processor case, we think it is more attributable to the ultra-extreme. As for the detailed definition has yet to be a Sony official explanation is given.
This year seems to be the year of focus on the outbreak of the deformation and cross-border products, few products in the past year or two into the fusion machine design, But Sony really have been trying various singular form of products, looks which only a duo11.
Addition to the folded baffle VAIO Duo 11 entire body shell is made of alloy, and hold it in the hands of the very texture. From the side view, it seems to be a tablet computer rack in the top of a keyboard base. However, you want to do this simple bracket is difficult to achieve, must solve the problem of cable and bracket. We will play with it bracket introduction.
VAIO Duo 11 configuration of the 11.6-inch Full HD IPS display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080. The screen resolution than most of the ultra extreme of the more horrifying, even if it is far less popular surface. Its screen sharpness, screen colors and brightness are impressive. The IPS screen also has a broad perspective, you can almost see the screen from any angle. It can be seen on this product, Sony is also under a lot of effort.
VAIO Duo 11 screen is very similar, with the most common flat-panel computer screen and the installation of an external screen at the top of the screen. The screen supports up to 10 touch, feel or touch experience very smooth. sony vgp-bps13
Want to push the screen also need to be careful to identify the front and rear end of the screen, edit in the trial process more than once from the top of the screen to promote. This is because the upper and lower end of the screen can seem pushed. This design should be improved, great effort, easily will screen bracket broken. Push from certain to find the location of the windows key and gently push up.
In order to achieve a compact body VAIO Duo 11 selected very narrow keyboard layout. Significantly reduced by reducing a key area of the keyboard area. All keys work well, but the cramped space or the misuse probability increases. If the palm of your hand great typing along, it would be more uncomfortable.
Small but perfectly formed, the VAIO Duo 11 on this machine also provides a white backlit keyboard. This is really somewhat unexpected, can be seen Sony humane intentions, but I'd have another problem, whether it is necessary to set the backlit keyboard on this product, and its price will not rise a lot of it?
VAIO Duo 11 removed the touchpad, but the use of a sensor pointing stick as an alternative. Fengyun looks much like the Thinkpad sensor Little Red Riding Hood, in fact, can not move, it is more a sense of light and a sense of power to operate. However, the sensitivity of the TrackPoint is very high, not low rate of use of misuse. We also did not find the trackpoint control software, perhaps the official follow-up will be introduced to the software driver.
The biggest problem is the convergence of the tablet and keyboard, which affects the whole durability. VAIO Duo 11 bracket on both sides of the spring, two alloy bar as strut. But it's back folding bezel is plastic, looks always feel that I am afraid that the two metal can not stand too long toss. Another problem is that the fly line at the rear of the screen, it seems even more unreliable.
VAIO Duo 11 interface with buttons is a Tablet PC notebook, HDMI port, a power button and two USB 3.0 ports in the right side of the fuselage; arranged the left side of the fuselage, a VGA port, headphone jack and a Compatible with SD and Memory Stick Duo card slot. So full interface is extremely convenient access to a variety of peripherals, such individual is a VGA interface is now rarely appear in the above over most of this, but it is the favorite of a lot of old equipment.
Reserved a power connector and an RJ45 interface at the rear of the fuselage design of the rear fuselage is very humane, can reduce the interference of connected users. From the chart, some users may be concerned that the RJ45 cable interface put in the machine usually can not be opened, in fact, the designers also found this problem, so there will be a corresponding design on its back.
The two mats can be manually raised VAIO Duo 11 back, open mat, RJ45 opening will be able to easily use. In addition, this design can effectively enhance the cooling effect of the increase in the tail of the air circulation space.
It the body also has a lot of flat products of factors, such as the back of the volume of the plus or minus key, lock screen button and VAIO Help key. VAIO Duo 11 is installed at the bottom of the fuselage front corner of the two speakers, not loud, but enough for personal use. If you need better results it is recommended that an external independent speaker.
Tablet PC occasionally used in photographing function, VAIO Duo 11 using a dual-camera design also has a 2.4 million pixel camera on the back. While shooting is mediocre, but better than none, which is not a bad thing for consumers.
Look the VAIO Duo 11 back to see a docking slot, it does have a docking station, but this docking station is unique because its function is different from the common interface docking station itself is a charging base Block, in addition to a dedicated slot used to the way the stylus.
Its called docking station, it is better to call the backup battery dock. When you will be placed above the base VAIO Duo 11 it would have the device charging. That also can be used as a spare battery to use the same. VAIO Duo 11 machine use 4960mAh lithium polymer battery, docking station 4830mAh lithium polymer battery. Found in the trial process without the base, then the battery life duration is about 4-5 hours, plus battery base can reach more than 8 hours. However, after the tape base portability will decline. sony vgp-bps21
We receive VAIO Duo 11 on the test machine is equipped with a stylus, but at the moment is not clear whether this base with pen need to be purchased separately, according to foreign news purchase a stylus to spend the $ 49 (about or 307 yuan). VAIO Duo 11 original metal stylus with built-AAAA battery. Installation of two buttons on the pen can help you achieve some auxiliary functions, such as select text or erase the image. However puzzle VAIO Duo 11 body had not been placed stylus slot. So we can guess, the whether the VAIO Duo 11 sale is even pen and base sell it?
Almost VAIO Duo 11 in size 13-inch super this size. Compared to its weight does not have the advantage, and author a hands up will feel a bit strenuous, want raised his hands as the Tablet PC for a long time use or some difficulty with the Tablet PC.
VAIO Duo 11 Total weight is 1.28kg, the whole + base (1.62kg), the whole + power adapter (1.55kg), all of the combined weight of 1.89kg. It can be said that the weight of the machine itself is good, choose to travel or go short time office have corresponding combination.
Heat, the Sony VAIO Duo 11 vents all concentrated in the rear of the fuselage keyboard tray, in addition to a heat extraoral beside the distribution of many hollow to further help the body heat.
So that when the product when the tablet use, does not prevent both hands on both sides of the plate. It is noteworthy that the Duo 11 vents is very small, but Windows usually play some games and applications, body temperature should not be too large, a flat to define it vents is already enough of a breakthrough. Below us in the case of daily use, with a thermal analyzer shooting the results so that users understand.
The figure in the notebook morphology VAIO Duo 11 positive temperature test results, the main heating region is concentrated in the rear fuselage vents, with a maximum temperature of 33.0 degrees Celsius. Hand part of regular contact with similar temperature and ambient temperature, normal use will not feel discomfort.
VAIO Duo 11 temperature mainly used as a tablet is near the bottom of the body parts of the vents, the highest temperature of 36.7 degree Celsius, similar to the other most of the temperature and the ambient temperature.
The test showed that the Lenovo Sony VAIO Duo 11 in the day-to-day use of the process, even if the temperature of the vents and other parts are also good, often in the region of the user's hand and the hardware core area temperature is not high. Good heat dissipation can be protected in the machine hardware. The most important is that as a tablet to use the process, the user will not feel uncomfortable because the temperature is too high.
Configure the introduction and performance testing
Sony VAIO Duo 11 straddling the hardware configuration
Processor Intel Core i5-3317U 1.70 GHz
Memory 4GB DDR3 1600
Graphics Intel HD 4000 core graphics
Display 11.6-inch 1920x1080 Full HD IPS touch screen (touch)
Hard disk 128GB SSD
The base of the battery: 4830mAh lithium polymer battery fuselage: 4960mAh lithium polymer battery
The Weight Weight 1.280Kg Travel weight 1.890Kg
System, Windows 8
Reference Price upcoming
11 straddling the Sony VAIO Duo equipped with Intel Core i5-3317U processor frequency was 1.70 GHz; Intel HD Graphics 4000 Core Graphics; 4GB DDR3 1600MHz memory; 128GB solid state drive. Here let us look at its performance.
Cinebench R10 is a common processor performance computing software, its test is divided into two parts, the first will run a single-core single-threaded, the second is to run the entire core and thread to render a high-resolution pictures. From the test results, the Intel Core i5-3317U processor multi-core test score about 9144 points, outstanding performance, so that the effect of 1 +1> 2.
3DMark Vantage is the industry's first comprehensive benchmarking tool based on Microsoft DX10 API to create and play multiple cards full advantage of multi-core processors, game performance test requirements of the PC system to meet the current and future time . sony vaio vgn-fz280e battery
PCMark 7 includes seven different test session, by a total of 25 individual workloads covering storage, computation, image and video processing, web browsing, games and other day-to-day PC all aspects of the application. PCMark Vantage, PCMark 7 test environment has changed compared to became DX10, various test software was upgrading, more in line with the current use of the user's environment and habits.
Summary:
Sony VAIO Duo 11 positioning a little fuzzy, it is like a smooth Windows 8 tablet device, and like an ultra-portable Mini ultra-extreme. As a notebook, the keyboard is not handy, its weight is absolutely not dominant as a tablet. Despite these shortcomings do not look the VAIO Duo 11 performance is very good, it has a very nice screen, good overall performance, very strong expansion of capacity.
