Sony is out with its compact, gorgeous and powerful laptop series namely Sony VAIO E series. Although Sony VAIO E series are a group of compact laptops, they are quite powerful than other bulkier conventional notebooks and laptops.
The new VAIO E series features high contrast 15 inch display screen of 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution with latest Dolby Home Theater v3 technology for virtual surround sound system. And ATI Mobility Radeon 5000 graphics of 1GB video RAM provide it with required graphical support.
This gorgeous looking notebook lets you relish the HD movies to the best. And it also comes with optional Blu-ray Disc writer/reader making it a complete multimedia notebook.
VAIO E series is powered by the very new 2010 Intel Core processor family. With a primary memory of 4 GB DDR3 RAM and 500 GB of storage space, the E series notebooks are quite powerful units. VAIO E series features ‘no-boot’ Quick Web Access, plus ASSIST and VAIO buttons.
Despite of its compact design, VAIO E series offers you with full-sized numeric keypad and offers you with comfortable and confident typing experience. Apart from HDMI output and 4 USB ports, it features eSATA/USB port for high speed transfers.
VAIO E series come with Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium Edition and feature PMB (Picture Motion Browser) VAIO Edition lets you manage, edit and share video clips and photos. These Sony notebooks are expected to hit the markets from the end of February 2010.
[via Market Wire]
I like the Sony VAIO E series so far; I got the EB13FX. Latest hardware, latest Intel Core i series, fast, and Windows 7 now quirks or bugs like the old Vista. And the VAIO EB13FX does not seem to run too hot either.
However, I have concerns about the 'no-boot' Quick Web Access (QWA). No-one seems to have brought up the subject of malware security in QWA. I don’t know how long QWA’s been out, but it seems to be included with Sony’s VAIO NW series notebooks too. Does QWA prevents scripts and programs embedded in web-pages from running? And with embedded pdfs, videos, flash, etc. in web-pages, you can forget about blocking downloads (think of Temporary Internet Files folder). I’ve run QWA once, and I have not seen any anti-malware application running, and I can only assume the Windows firewall is at least used.
Sadly, I’ve googled the subject, and I have only found one article on the matter. Worse, it says that QWA is safe simply because it does not allow “downloaded files to the computer’s hard drive.”
Anyway, I'm keeping my VAIO EB13FX, but I'm going to avoid using the QWA for now.
I meant to say, “Windows 7 'does not have' quirks or bugs like the old Vista.”
Thanks for your useful comment P-chu, we never would have thought about the concern/issue with the quick web access, this just goes to show how important consumer feedback is! Reading your comment, you seem overall quite happy with your purchase. I think you would probably agree that the QWA shouldn't be the main attraction for the buying an E Series and should instead also consider the rest of its specs?
Personally, I do think QWA is not an important purchasing criteria. In fact, I was not even aware that it existed until after I bought my notebook, and began to become familiar with the notebooks features and buttons.