Sony Vaio VGN-FE31M

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Sony VAIO VGN-FE31M Review
Source: notebookforums.com Archive.org version
The Sony Vaio VGN FE31M is an entertainment notebook equipped with the Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 processor and GeForce Go 7600 Graphics Card. The VAIO FE Series is setting a new visual benchmark for mobile multimedia. With its fully converged communication, including MotionEye™ integrated camera, microphone, pre-installed Skype™ and Bluetooth® video-call on the move is a reality for every user. That's not all: Running on Intel's Core 2 Duo T5600 processor, the VAIO FE Series brings super-fast, no-compromise portable excellence to all - for business, for study, for fun.
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(von 10):Leistung 8, Display 10, Verarbeitung 8, Akkulaufzeit 5
User Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 12/01/2006
Rating: performance: 80% display: 100% workmanship: 80%

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90% Sony Vaio FE31 M Testbericht
Source: Notebookforum.at DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 10/23/2006
Rating: Total score: 90% display: 90% workmanship: 90%

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NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600: The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 is a middle class video card of the 7000 series and suited for games of the year 2006. The performance is very similar to ATI X1600 / X1700. Compared to the desktop 7600 it is clearly slower.

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

» 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.

T5600:

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.