Sony Vaio VGN-SZ4XWN

Notebook Specifications

Reviews for the Sony Vaio VGN-SZ4XWN

Sony - Vaio SZ4 XWN/C review
Source: IT Reviews
Sony's Vaio SZ4 XWN/C sits in the middle of a three-product family and is, as we've come to expect from Sony, a stylish, well featured, portable laptop with built-in security, all aimed at the business user. The SZ4 XWN/C is a stylish but costly, well featured laptop which is easy to carry around, but the thinness of the screen is something that will play on your mind unless you have it well protected.
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Preis/Leistung gut, Ausstattung gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/15/2007
Rating: price: 80% features: 80%

Foreign Reviews

Schlanker, leichter, leistungsfähiger
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 9-10/07
, Length Unknown, Date: 09/24/2007
Rating: price: 60% performance: 80% mobility: 80%

Ein Subnotebook mit schickem Design, guter Verarbeitung, starker Hardware, brilliantem Bildschirm und hoher Akkulaufzeit zu einem gehobenen Preis
Source: Minitechnet
online available, Short, Date: 07/06/2007
Rating: price: 40% performance: 80% display: 80% workmanship: 80%

80% Sony Vaio VGN-SZ4 XWN
Source: Chip.de
online available, Short, Date: 06/20/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 60% mobility: 90% ergonomy: 40% emissions: 80%

79% Mobiler Dauerläufer
Source: Chip.de
online available, Short, Date: 05/25/2007
Rating: Total score: 79% price: 40% performance: 70% features: 85% display: 78% mobility: 91% workmanship: 40% ergonomy: 71%

90% Leichtgewicht mit Langlaufschalter
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Very Short, Date: 04/26/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 70% features: 50% display: 90% mobility: 50%

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NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400: The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 the competitor to the ATI Mobility Radeon X1400. Caution there are some versions with reduced momry bus available.

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 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.

T7200:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

13.3": This is a frequent and the biggest display format for sub-notebooks.
The advantage is, that the subnotebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the tiny display has the advantage, that it needs few current, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that the reading of texts is very exhausting vor the eyes. High resolutions can hardly be used.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

1.7 kg: This sub-notebook weighs less than the average of all notebooks and represents a medium class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 11 inch displays are normal for 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.

83%: 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.