Sony Vaio VGN-NR21Z
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Sony Vaio VGN-NR21ZProcessor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.9kg
Price: 1100 euro
Links: Sony homepage Sony notebook section Vaio VGN-NR21Z (Model)
Average Score: 76.67% - good
Average of 3 scores (from 3 reviews)
mobility: - %, workmanship: - %, ergonomy: - %, emissions: - %
Reviews for theSony Vaio VGN-NR21Z
80%Sony VAIO VGN-NR21Z/T
Source: Techradar (English)
Sony's VAIO range has traditionally comprised high-end laptops with equally high price points.
This is no longer the case, with several affordable models now available, one of which is Sony's VAIO VGN-NR21Z/T (£699 inc. VAT). It has a 15.4-inch Super-TFT display. Movies and photographs looked great, helped by vivid colours. It's large enough to consider using the Sony as a replacement for your desktop PC, yet it retains an element of portability, further aided by a battery life of just over three hours.
4 von 5, Display gut, Ausstattung mangelhaft
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/17/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% features: 50% display: 80%
80%Sony VAIO VGN-NR21Z/T notebook review
Source: Pocket Lint (English)
The Sony VAIO VGN-NR21Z/T is a great machine for anyone looking for a powerful notebook to replace your desktop PC. Sure, it lacks decent graphics and digital connections but for the asking price you get a great keyboard, screen and specification in return.
8 von 10, Preis gut, Ausstattung gut, Leistung mangelhaft
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/02/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 50% features: 80%
70%Sony VAIO VGN-NR21Z/T 15.4in Notebook
Source: Trusted Reviews (English)
Laptops have become something of a commodity item. While Asus has been re-defining the market with the Eee PC, it's easy to forget it has been possible to get hold of very cheap notebooks (albeit not as small) for quite a while now. Hell, there have even been some free notebook deals floating around and a quick look at our own shopping section shows a large number of notebooks available for less than £300. Of course, these are all very basic machines but spend a little more and you're still looking at a dual-core CPU, while upwards of £500 should offer up some very decent notebooks.
(von 10): 7, Ausstattung 6, Leistung 7
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 70% features: 60%
Comment
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT: NVidia GeForce 8400M GT is the DirectX 10 capable successor of the GeForce Go 7400 for laptops and technologically a slower 8600M GS video card. Not suited for DX 10 games in high details.
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.
>> 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.
T8100:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
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.
2.9 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.
76.67%: 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.
