Sony Vaio VPC-P Series

Sony Vaio VPCP119KJ

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Sony VAIO P Series review
Source: Engadget
Can you get an $800 laptop with five times the performance of the P Series, or a $399 netbook with better ergonomics and endurance? Of course, but the VAIO P is -- and will probably always be, unless it drops severely in price -- a niche device meant for those that have the cash to burn on an overpriced, albeit striking little laptop. But regardless of it not being a gadget for the masses, we'd still like to see it gain a touchscreen and more than four hours of battery life. Ultimately we feel the same way we did when we concluded the first VAIO P review: "There's some cool stuff happening here. $800 worth of cool things? That's your call."
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/10/2010
Rating: price: 40%

Sony Vaio P im Test
Source: Netzwelt DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/20/2010
performance: 50%

Sony Vaio VPCP11S1E

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Sony Vaio VPCP11S1E
Source: PC Authority
Sony VAIO P Series (2nd gen), the only fully fledged laptop that can slip into a jacket pocket

The VAIO P Series is unique, and once you remove the bloatware it becomes nippy enough to handle basic tasks without making you want to bang your head against the wall in frustration. Even in this leaner form, however, we can't recommend it. At $1599, it's still too expensive, and we remain unconvinced that the gains are worth the loss in usability compared to a low-cost ultraporta.

Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/30/2010
Rating: price: 33% performance: 33% features: 83%

60% Sony VAIO P Series (Gen 2)
Source: Laptop Mag
The VAIO P offers a highly portable design and high-resolution screen, and new enhancements like its accelerometer and small trackpad make this mini laptop more versatile than its predecessor. But the $899 price tag ensures that this secondary notebook will attract only a niche crowd, and you don't even get a 6-cell battery for the base price. Some may prefer the Viliv N5, which has a smaller keyboard but is even lighter than the Sony while costing $250 less. Nevertheless, if you want a notebook with a premium design that can slip into a purse or a coat pocket, the VAIO P is worth a look.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/22/2010
Rating: Total score: 60%

60% Notebook Review: Sony Vaio P
Source: Hardware Central
The Vaio P is an engineering tour de force. Both its screen and its keyboard flirt with, but just miss, being too small, making it the smallest usable PC we've seen and making other netbooks look like bruisers. As a way to turn heads while getting work done, it has few peers. Against that, it's shockingly expensive and has a short-lived battery. Can we recommend it? Only for status seekers. Are we jealous of the status seekers? Absolutely
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/29/2010
Rating: Total score: 60% price: 40% performance: 60% features: 80%

60% Sony Vaio P netbook
Source: Reg Hardware
The VPCP11S1E might be small and have an Atom processor, but it’s most definitely not a netbook. No, this is a luxury device aimed at those who are happy to pay a premium for something that’s a bit different. And it certainly has a lot going for it, not least built-in 3G and GPS, along with its ultra-lightweight design. The keyboard also impresses, but using the trackpoint and/or mini touchpad can be tricky, while the high resolution 8in screen isn’t particularly easy on the eye. Moreover, I suspect most Reg readers, myself included, would shudder at the thought of splashing out £800 on such an under-powered device, no matter how pretty it might be.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/15/2010
Rating: Total score: 60%

Sony - Vaio P review
Source: IT Reviews
For all its good looks, small size and kazoom! boom! kapow! colours the Sony Vaio P remains, as it was a year ago, an expensive notebook that isn't very usable and which has poor battery life. Style wins over substance here, for sure.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 06/14/2010
Rating: price: 40% mobility: 40%

74% Sony VAIO P-Series (2010 Version)
Source: Computer Shopper
Last year, Sony rolled out its P-Series Lifestyle PC, a super-stylish laptop designed with women in mind. This year, the P-Series targets a broader audience—in theory, anyway. The P-Series, in its 2010 incarnation, may now have cross-gender appeal, but given its $899 starting price, casual consumers are likely to steer clear. Sony’s latest status-accessory laptop is a feature-packed stunner—with a price to match.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/01/2010
Rating: Total score: 74%

Sony Vaio VPCP11
Source: Digital Versus
In spite of an early model that didn't convince us and which didn't convince Sony's European clients either, Sony has persevered with the Vaio P, a unique netbook. In spite of a few persistent faults, the new Vaio P is now much more usable thanks to various modifications. It is now more than a sexy, high-design product. Its size, quietness and the ease of use of the keyboard make it a good alternative to netbooks which are gaining in size. It does however cost twice as much.
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Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/28/2010

68% Sony Vaio P series (VPCP11S1E/P) review
Source: CNet
The first Sony Vaio P-series mini-laptop left us with mixed feelings. We liked its tiny size and ambitious design, but not its high price and lack of a trackpad. It's hard to beat the Sony Vaio P-series VPCP11S1E/P in terms of sheer portability, but it's very expensive considering its modest components. We like the new additions, such as the trackpad, but you'd be better off with a cheaper, more powerful netbook.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/24/2010
Rating: Total score: 68%

50% Sony VAIO P Series (VPC-P11S1E) Review
Source: Trusted Reviews
Despite Sony's design tweaks, the VAIO P Series is still an awkward prospect that's way too expensive to be a realistic purchase. Someone, somewhere might be able to make an argument for it, but for the most part it's an expensive indulgence - more so even than Apple's iPad.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/19/2010
Rating: Total score: 50% price: 40% performance: 50% features: 70% mobility: 50%

50% Sony VAIO P Series (2nd gen)
Source: PC Pro
A clear improvement compared to the old P Series, with some neat design touches and a faster turn of pace, but there’s still much to criticise.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/11/2010
Rating: Total score: 50% price: 33% performance: 33% features: 83%

Das Mini im Oranje-Look
Source: Mobile News - 5/10
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 12/01/2010

Sony Vaio VPC-P11S1E
Source: Chip.de
Single Review, , Very Short, Date: 10/01/2010

80% Mini-Notebook Sony Vaio VPCP11S1E/D im Test
Source: Magnus.de DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 09/23/2010
Rating: Total score: 80%

Sony Vaio-P
Source: HardwareLuxx DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/15/2010
Rating: display: 80% mobility: 80%

82% Sony Vaio VPC-P11S1E/D (Netbook)
Source: Chip.de DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/09/2010
Rating: Total score: 82% price: 63% performance: 56% features: 82% display: 87% mobility: 96% ergonomy: 72%

80% Von Riesen und Zwergen
Source: PC Magazin - 9/10
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 08/01/2010
Rating: Total score: 80%

Zum Mitnehmen
Source: c't - 14/10
Comparison, , Long, Date: 06/01/2010
Rating: performance: 35% display: 70% mobility: 40% emissions: 90%

Sony Vaio VPCP113KX

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80% Sony Vaio P (2010, second gen)
Source: Mobile Tech Review
We said it last year and we'll say it again: the Sony Vaio P is all about the keyboard and the display. No other tiny PC offers a usable keyboard and a widescreen display that banishes side-scrolling, even at the more viewable 1280 pixel setting. Sony addressed our complaints with the second generation model, making the keyboard even better, increasing battery life, improving video playback and adding the handy resolution switcher for more comfortable reading. It's still not as easy on the eyes as a large display, low resolution netbook, but the P is about getting as much of a real notebook experience as possible into a very small package.Clearly this notebook isn't for everyone, though Sony tells us the last gen P sold well and the new one is in high demand. The Vaio P is for Internet workers on the go, IT people, certain vertical markets and tech fashionistas. Given the passive cooling requirements of a 1.3 lb. tiny notebook, the Intel Atom Z series is the only real choice right now, and it gets the job done for MS Office, web and email. In fact it can handle casual gaming and Photoshop, but it's no replacement for a full-sized notebook unless your needs are basic.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/30/2010
Rating: Total score: 80%

Sony Vaio VPCP115KG

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Sony VAIO P VPCP115KG review
Source: T Break
A technical showcase from Sony that is purely for the fashion conscious types that prefer form over function.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/16/2010
Rating: price: 50% performance: 60% features: 70%

Sony VAIO P (VPCP115KG, Intel Atom Z540)
Source: Hardware Zone
We last saw the Sony VAIO P a few months back, when it was first launched, and back then we were certainly impressed with the unit, though slightly none too pleased with its sluggish performance.Smaller than a standard notebook and smarter than a smartphone, the new and colorful VAIO P series is the perfect partner for versatile and on-the-go computing.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/13/2010
Rating: mobility: 80%

Sony Vaio VPCP11S1R/G

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Обзор ультра-компактного Sony VAIO VPC-P11S1R/G: смартбук, похожий на «скрепку»
Source: Hi-Tech Mail RU→EN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/23/2010
Rating: price: 50%

Sony Vaio VPCP111KX/G

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60% Sony VAIO P Series VPC-P111KX/G - Atom Z530 1.6 GHz
Source: CNet

In 2010, however, the landscape is very different. In many ways we're at a juncture in mobile computing: smartphones continue to evolve larger screens and more-powerful software and processors; tablets are starting to emerge everywhere; and both of these devices call into question the point of the "ultramobile" PC. Sony's too-expensive, designer, ultramobile PC seems out of touch with today's more-affordable and usable smartphone, tablet, and Netbook offerings, with a package that doesn't best any of the competition.

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/08/2010
Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 70% features: 80% mobility: 60%

Sony Vaio VPC-P11S1R/B

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50% Обзор имиджевого гаджета Sony VAIO VPC-P11S1R/B
Source: Retera RU→EN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 11/26/2010
Rating: Total score: 50% performance: 14% display: 45% mobility: 64% emissions: 59%

Sony Vaio VPC-P11S1E/D

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70% Sony Vaio VPCP11S1E/D
Source: Benchmark.pl PL→EN
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/14/2011
Rating: Total score: 70%

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Sony: Sony Corporation is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Japan. Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game consoles, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its name is derived from sonus, the Latin word for sound. The company was founded 1946 with another name and renamed in 1958. Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group, which is engaged in business through its five operating segments—electronics, games, entertainment (motion pictures and music), financial services and other. Sony is a notebook manufacturer of medium size according international market shares.

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Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.

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).

These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500: Integrated (onboard) graphics chip on the UL11L, US15L, and US15W chipsets with a licensed PowerVR SGX core. DirectX 10.1 support but because of low clock rates (100-200 MHz UL11L - US15) and only 4 shaders not suited for 3D games. The integrated video decoder accelerates the playback of HD videos (MPEG2, VC-1, AVC).

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

Intel Atom: The Intel Atom series is a 64-Bit (not every model supports 64bit) microprocessor for cheap and small notebooks (so called netbooks), MIDs, or UMPCs. The speciality of the new architecture is the "in order" execution (instead of the usual and faster "out of order" execution). Therefore, the transistor count of the Atom series is much lower and, thus, cheaper to produce. Furthermore, the power consumption is very low. The performance per Megahertz is therfore worse than the old Pentium 3M (1,2 GHz on par with a 1.6 GHz Atom).

Z530:

Power saving version of the Atom N270 with additional Virtualization Support and more power saving techniques. The performance is equal to the N270 and therefore only suited for basic tasks.

Z540: Power saving Atom processor (even more power efficient than the N-series) with 1.83 GHz and therefore a bit faster than usually 1.6 GHz clocked Atoms.

8.0: This is a very small format, which is used for UMPC, Netbooks or Subotebooks. There hardly exist any models with this display format. Working for a long time is uncomfortable. This tiny display is intended for outdoor usage.
The advantage is, that the mini-notebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the tiny display has the advantage, that it needs few energy, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that the reading of texts is very exhausting for the eyes. High resolutions can hardly be used.

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

0.6 kg:

This subnotebook is one of the most lightweight of all notebooks and can be carried very easily. There exist hardly any models in this extreme class of weight. 7-9 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.

0.65 kg:

66%: This rating is bad. Most notebooks are better rated. This is not a recommendation for purchase.

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

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