Sony Vaio VGN-BZ Series
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8400, Intel Core 2 Duo P8600Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
Display: 15.4 inch
Weight: 2.7kg
900, 1100, 1300
Average Score: 81.13% - good
Average of 8 scores (from 10 reviews)
mobility: 76%, workmanship: 83%, ergonomy: 75%, emissions: 80%
Sony Vaio VGN-BZ11VN
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Sony Vaio VGN-BZ11VNProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8600
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1440x900 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 1300 euro
Links: Sony homepage Sony notebook section Vaio VGN-BZ (Series) Vaio VGN-BZ11VN (Model)
Average Score: 79% - good
Average of 2 scores (from 2 reviews)
80% Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook P8010
Source: Chip.de - 10/08 
, Very Short, Date: 10/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% performance: 80% features: 90%
78% Test: Sony Vaio VGN-BZ11VN (Notebook)
Source: Chip.de
online available, Medium, Date: 07/30/2008
Rating: Total score: 78% performance: 71% features: 95% display: 93% mobility: 64% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 70%
Sony Vaio VGN-BZ11XN
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Sony Vaio VGN-BZ11XNProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8400
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1440x900 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 1100 euro
Links: Sony homepage Sony notebook section Vaio VGN-BZ (Series) Vaio VGN-BZ11XN (Model)
Average Score: 85% - good
Average of 4 scores (from 4 reviews)
80% Sony Vaio VGN-BZ11XN.G4
Source: PC Go - 10/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 10/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 50% mobility: 80% emissions: 80%
80% Sony Vaio VGN-BZ11XN.G4
Source: Magnus.de
online available, Short, Date: 09/15/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% mobility: 80% emissions: 80%
90% Sony Vaio VGN-BZ11XN.G4
Source: PC Go
, Length Unknown, Date: 08/15/2008
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 70% mobility: 80% emissions: 80%
90% Sony VAIO VGN-BZ11XN
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 08/11/2008
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 70% features: 50% display: 50% mobility: 70% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 80%
Sony Vaio VGN-BZ11MN
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Sony Vaio VGN-BZ11MNProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8400
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 900 euro
Links: Sony homepage Sony notebook section Vaio VGN-BZ (Series) Vaio VGN-BZ11MN (Model)
Average Score: 75.5% - good
Average of 2 scores (from 4 reviews)
80% Sony VAIO VGN-BZ11MN notebook Does this VAIO impress?
Source: Pocket Lint 
A comfortable and well-made business machine offering style, quality and an impressive battery life
8 von 10, Preis gut, Mobilität gut, Leistung schlecht, Ausstattung mangelhaft
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 40% features: 50% mobility: 80%
Sony - VAIO BZ-11MN review
Source: IT Reviews
A no-nonsense, well-built business notebook with a good blend of performance and features, although it would be good if the screen had a higher resolution and the 160GB hard drive wasn't so full of pre-installed software; that may be fine on a home notebook but it's a bit of a waste on a business one.
Verarbeitung gut, Leistung gut, Ausstattung gut
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 10/28/2008
Rating: performance: 80% features: 80% workmanship: 80%
71% Sony Vaio VGN-BZ11MN review
Source: CNet
The Vaio VGN-BZ11MN is a cost-effective workhorse of an office laptop, whose integrated webcam could prove to be a boon for professionals who like to keep in touch with a set of distributed contacts. We like the manual switch for wireless networking, and the keyboard is good enough to allow fast touch typing.
There are some definite budget elements to this laptop, however. The screen resolution is lower than we would like, for example, and there aren't enough USB ports. Build quality is solid, but the design uninspiring -- which is a surprise coming from Sony. And for a laptop aimed squarely at office use, we're puzzled by the enormous amount of preinstalled software. Some of it will be welcome, but many customers would prefer to have it on CD, available to install if it's required. If you opt for the more expensive £748 BZ11XN model, you'll get a higher-resolution LED-backlit screen, 3GB of RAM and a 200GB hard disk.
7.1 von 10, Verarbeitung gut, Display mangelhaft
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/25/2008
Rating: Total score: 71% display: 50% workmanship: 80%
Mobil & kraftvoll
Source: SFT - 10/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 10/01/2008
Rating: performance: 40% display: 80% mobility: 80%
Comment
Sony: Sony is a notebook manufacturer of medium size according international market shares. There exist a lot of reviews about Sony notebooks. The total ratings and price/value ratings are good above average.
Lower end of Graphics Cards for users who want to play games. New games should run on these cards, but only with decreased details and mediocre resolution.
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD: Onboard (shared Memory) GPU built in the GM45 chipset (Montevina). Because of two more shaders and a higher core clock, much faster than the old GMA X3100. Still not advisable for gamers (DirectX 10 games not playable or only with very low settings). The integrated video processor is able to help decode HD videos (AVC/VC-2/MPEG2) , e.g., for a fluent Blu-Ray playback with slow CPUs.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).
The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.
15.4: 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks. 15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays.
The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much current and the laptops can be kept quite compact.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.7 kg:
This notebook is lighter than the average of all notebooks. It is too heavy for sub-notebooks. 14 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.
2.7 kg:
81.13%: This rating is to be considered as average, because the amount of notebooks with better ratings is about equal like the amount with worse ratings.
>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
