subject: Sony Vaio Fe Series Notebook Review [print this page] With the continuous upgrading of Intel mobile platform, the Sony VAIO notebook, this famous home entertainment notebook manufacturers continue to change along with their home audio and video with the flagship model, the times from the 915 series 17-inch King A (assessment), to 15-inch FS Series (evaluation) have been known to us. Blink of an eye to 945 times, VAIO has introduced a new generation of 15-inch entertainment flagship VAIO FE series notebook.
At present we know of the FE series has two models: FE-18C and the FE-15C. The former is, we introduce the main characters is equipped with Intel Core Duo T2400 processor and nVIDIA Geforce Go7400 graphics; while the latter is slightly cheaper with the price of single-core T1300 processor. VAIO FE series models 15.4-inch display with a high color and XBRITE (bright contrast) technology, process, ensuring multimedia playback screen does not appear when you jump and pause phenomena, SONY mature display manufacturing process and significantly light technology makes the day even at high brightness, color reproduction is also very real bright, Sony put the application on the screen in the FE series called "Crystal Lai your screen."
FE series cover the huge streamlined "VAIO" Logo underlines the purchase of this notebook's unique vision and aesthetic, even against the background of the polished surface of the environment in which you can say fine nuanced. Magnesium alloy body ensures robustness of the notebook, allowing you to feel in the course of your VAIO to bring a sense of security.
VAIO FE Series is a unique side design, while maintaining the original design of the VAIO also changed some details. After closing the whole look from the side or rear thick, thin the front of the trend, but the front there is a tightening of the process, so that when the front looks even more FE but were heavy. It is due to this design, the interface is not so much the front, in addition to 3.5mm audio I / O but also have MS card reader and wireless network switch.
Because the FE series VAIO notebook shaft follows the common circular L-type designs, in addition to a very large rear vents outside the no interface, all interfaces are concentrated in the notebook space on both sides of that slender. Although the design of this uncommon, but the interface on the VAIO FE series arrangement also left some regret how much - too much emphasis on the right.
On the left side only DVD RW drive (supporting DVD + R DL discs) and RJ-11/RJ-45 network interface; and arranged in the fuselage on the right PC Card slot, ExpressCard / E34 plug slot, USB2.0 * 3,1394 a, S and D-Sub output terminal output. The ExpressCard / E34 slot is the first time we met in a notebook, before we introduced it, and the ExpressCard slot is similar, but it is a small adapter ExpressCard, PC Card which , and difference is similar.
In addition to focusing too much on the right side of the interface outside the 15-inch models as the FE series in terms of only three USB ports design is absolutely unacceptable thing. No DVI digital output interface also allows Go7400 HD output somewhat less so, after all FE series notebook as a home entertainment there, ah! S-Video output or an increase in the number of no DVI output to save some face.
Sony VAIO human-computer interaction can be said that all notebooks do more unique one, unlike IBM, HP as serious-minded pursuit of comfort, but not the same foundry produced the laptop fits with other brands. VAIO has its own style, while maintaining comfort but also be innovative, innovative whom everyone was so surprised, the original notebook mouse and keyboard can also be the case. VAIO U, TX, FJ series are not all people feel like it? Today's FE series then? Let's take a look at vgp-bps2 ... ...
VAIO FE Series notebook mouse, much like his predecessor, FJ series are large touchpad, each with 50% of the mouse button. The full-size notebook keyboard is followed TX series notebook keyboard design, and also carried out in the above concave handle, not only shows excellent craftsmanship Sony laptop, and from the user's hand is also better in terms of , especially for women leaving long nails.
The upper left corner of the keyboard has a separate five hardware buttons to meet the audio-visual experience for the user to provide a more convenient operation. Function specified by the user can very easily be assigned to two S key. Default state, S1 key to VAIO FE Series Computer is set to standby mode, while the S2 button you can achieve the output to the peripheral display. However, according to user preferences, these buttons can also be used to set the screen brightness to maximum, or activate the multi-display capabilities, or activate a personal favorite of the application operation. As for the remaining three buttons, they can easily direct the volume increase, decrease or mute control.
Center of the screen with a camera and a microphone set as one of the Motion Eye, whether you are a network conference call or chat online with friends through this Motion Eye can be easily achieved. It is covered with glass front panel, not only can effectively protect the camera, but the principle of light reflection can be achieved by lighting function. Unfortunately, we search through all of this information did not understand the specific number of pixels the camera may not yet finalized the reason. But we estimate it is at least 1.3 million VGP-BPS2 pixels.
Each has launched a new series of VAIO notebooks will be associated with some novel design, this sentence above the performance of the TX series is particularly evident. As for the FE series is concerned, in addition to its use of Intel's latest platform, certain parts of the industrial design is a bit bizarre to us ... ...
Habits of thinking may be the reason, our minds can think of laptops in general there are two kinds of chain switch: spring-locking and locking gradient force. Two kinds of automatic locking can be used to describe the word, that is, there is a push-pull, this locking is now less common. The FE series notebook puts this type of locking that sliding further evolution into a side sliding lock, we admire the imagination of Sony designers, but do not agree with this superfluous imagination, at least At present I have not thought of this lock can be any good.
VAIO FE Series also supports the docking station expansion, and its docking with the model is: VGP-PRFE1. Expansion slot provides four USB2.0 interface, a VGA output port, a Gigabit Ethernet port, an audio output port and an S-Video output port. Use this expansion slot, users can greatly expand its family of computer applications space. It also comes with a multi-slot can be used to access the hard drive as an optional (VGP-HDBX08A), to greatly expand the storage space. In addition, VAIO FE series computers can achieve one-touch disconnect, move with the need to realize the desire.
VAIO FE series notebook offers a modular design for future upgrades for notebook computer users to bring the convenience. In the factory state, FE-18C comes with a 512MB of DDR 533 modern memory, and a slot reserved for the other; hard drive is using the Fujitsu 80GB 5400 RPM SATA interface to notebook hard drive. This configuration can be said to belong to the mainstream configuration in 2006, and in the interface did not leave any obstacles in the future you can replace the DDR 667 dual channel memory, and faster speeds, higher capacity hard drive in order to improve notebook performance serial port.
As the VAIO FE measurement time to send more nervous, so we do not have time to test its Sony vgp-bps2 Battery life, which left a much more regret. But according to our actual situation, this 11.1V 4800mAh six-cell lithium-ion SONY Vaio VGN-FE Series battery can maintain the FE-18C probably run about 3 hours.
VAIO FE-18C configuration may seem high, but we found some interesting phenomena: First, we have always thought that the SATA interface hard disk drive than the PATA interface, faster, but in a notebook, the more obvious because the bus bottleneck, Therefore, almost no difference between the two. However, we recommend that you buy SATA hard drive, because it would be more convenient future upgrades. The other is the Go7400 graphics performance is to be lower than the Go6600 graphics card, but it is in the manufacturing process, characteristics, etc. have improved a lot.
