Sony Vaio VGN-FW31ZJ

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80% Sony Vaio VGN-FW31ZJ laptop PC
Source: vnunet.com Archive.org version

Sony’s Vaio FW31ZJ entertainment notebook has a 16:9 aspect screen, 
full HD support, and a built-in Blu-ray drive. The stylish magnesium 
chassis is finished in silver with a mesh grille above the keyboard 
housing the speakers and media centre control buttons; this is matched 
by the mesh-like finish to the touchpad. However, at 3.2kg it’s at the 
higher limit of what you’d want to lug around. Sony’s FW31ZJ is a very 
good, if pricey, full HD entertainment notebook with an excellent screen.

80, Preis 60, Leistung 60, Ausstattung 80
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 03/17/2009
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 60% performance: 60% features: 80%

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72% Die Vielseitigen
Source: PC Magazin - 6/09
Comparison, , Long, Date: 06/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 72% price: 70%

90% Sony Vaio FW31ZJ
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/22/2009
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 70% performance: 70% features: 70% display: 70% mobility: 50% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 70%

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650: The Hd 3650 is a middle class graphics card (in 2008) and compareable to an 8600M GT GPU from Nvidia. It is fabricated in 55nm process and due to Avivo video engine the graphic card can support the processor with several video operations (HD video too).

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.

T9550:

The T9550 is a middle class dual-core CPU of the Core 2 Duo line and similar to the P9600 (except for the higher TDP of the T9550 - 35 vs 25 W). The performance of the T9550 should be sufficient for most applications and games of 2009.

16.40":

15-16 inch is a standard display size for laptops and offers the biggest variety of products.

3.1 kg:

In former years, this weight was representative for laptops with a 14-16 inch display-diagonal. Nowadays, 17 inch laptops weigh less than that.

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.

From 2014, Sony has reduced the production of Vaio laptops and finally discontinued them. Sony is still present in the smartphone and tablet market, yet not among the Top 5 manufacturers.

80.67%: This rating should be considered to be average. This is because the proportion of notebooks which have a higher rating is approximately equal to the proportion which have a lower rating.

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

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