Sony Vaio VGN-TX5XN/B

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Reviews for the Sony Vaio VGN-TX5XN/B

Foreign Reviews

86% Test Sony Vaio VGN-TX5XN Notebook
Source: Notebookcheck
online available, Short, Date: 05/30/2007
Rating: Total score: 86% performance: 50% display: 96% mobility: 97% workmanship: 82% ergonomy: 84% emissions: 79%

80% Mini für Vista
Source: PC Professionell
online available, Short, Date: 05/10/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 90% features: 90% mobility: 80% ergonomy: 90%

Sony Vaio VGN-TX5XN
Source: c't
online available, Short, Date: 05/10/2007
Rating: performance: 40% features: 70% display: 90% ergonomy: 70%

80% Sony Vaio VGN-TX5XN
Source: Connect
online available, Short, Date: 04/20/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 50% features: 60% display: 80% mobility: 90% ergonomy: 100%

90% Haben-Faktor stark
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Short, Date: 04/03/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 30% features: 50% display: 100% mobility: 70%

Comment

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).

Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.

Intel Core Solo: Single core version of the Core Duo and successor of the Intel Pentium M; Because of the 65nm reduced structure width also smaller current consumption than Pentium M (maximally 27 Watts); the performance is comparable with the equivalent clocked Pentium M (somewhat faster because of a few improvements).

U1500:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

11.1": This is a quite small display format for subnotebooks, which is not very common.
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.

1.3 kg: This subnotebook is one of the most lightweight of all notebooks and can be carried very easily. There exist only few sub-notebooks, which weight less. 10 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.

Sony reviews

84%: 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.