Sony Vaio VGN-FW11ZU

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Reviews for the Sony Vaio VGN-FW11ZU

80% Sony VAIO VGN-FW11ZU notebook review
Source: Pocket Lint
Overall, we were impressed with what this machine has to offer. The Sony VAIO VGN-FW11ZU is a neat design and performance is simply stunning. If you're looking for a notebook for creating multimedia as well as just watching it, this is the one.
8 von 10, Leistung gut, Preis schlecht, Mobilität schlecht
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/22/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 40% performance: 80% mobility: 40%

80% Sony VAIO VGN-FW11ZU
Source: Techradar
The Sony VAIO VGN-FW11ZU has a great combination of features and usability for the price. Its performance may not suit more demanding needs, but as an affordable HD media centre, Sony has set a new benchmark for its rivals.
4 von 5, Preis gut, Ausstattung gut, Leistung schlecht, Mobilität schlecht
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/15/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 40% features: 80% mobility: 40%

67% Sony VAIO VGN-FW11ZU
Source: PC Pro
Quick, packed full of features and boasting a 16:9 high definition display, but it's too expensive for its own good.
4 von 6, Ausstattung gut, Preis schlecht
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 67% price: 40% features: 80%

67% Sony VAIO VGN-FW11ZU
Source: PC Pro
Plenty of laptops arrive at PC Pro with entertainment in mind, but few are as capable or well-featured as the new Sony VAIO VGN-FW11ZU. It's one of the first machines of any kind - desktops included - that we've seen with a Blu-ray writer, for instance, and a raft of Centrino 2 components provide more than enough power to cope with high definition video playback. Quick, packed full of features and boasting a 16:9 high definition display, but it's too expensive for its own good.
4 von 6, Ausstattung gut, Display gut, Preis schlecht
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 67% price: 40% features: 80% display: 80%

Foreign Reviews

90% Sony VAIO VGN-FW11ZU
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 08/06/2008
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 70% performance: 70% features: 70% display: 70% mobility: 40% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 70%

Review - Sony Vaio FW 11 ZU
Source: Notebookforum.at
online available, Very Short, Date: 07/26/2008
Rating: performance: 80% features: 80% display: 90% workmanship: 80% emissions: 40%

Comment

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650: The Hd 3650 is a middle class graphics card (in 2008) and compareable to an 8600M GT GPU from Nvidia. It is fabricated in 55nm process and due to Avivo video engine the graphic card can support the processor with several video operations (HD video too).

These cards should be able to display all current games with fluent framerates but not all with high detail settings. Especially demanding games like Crysis, Age of Conan, or Mass Effect are only playable with lower settings. Less demanding (and older) games, like Fifa 08, Command & Conquer 3, or Battlefield 2142 can be played with higher detail levels.

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.

T9400:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

16.4":
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

3.1 kg: This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in this class of weight.

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.

Sony reviews

76.8%: This rating is not convincing. It must be considered, that there exist hardly any laptops, which receive a rating below 60%. This notebook is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.

>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.