Sony does not like use the term netbook so it has named its latest entrant in the market, the W series, Internet book. We got hold of the sugar white Sony VAIO W series Internet book and were disappointed on a couple of fronts namely bad overall design, poor battery life, an 87% keyboard and average sound quality. Keep in mind that at Rs 29,990 this was one of higher priced machines in our shootout.
For starters, the VAIO W has a 10.1-inch display like your average netbook. Where it scores is in the fact that it has a very high display resolution of 1,366 x 768. On such a small screen, however, that meant that the fonts were too small to read comfortably and we had to set XP's font size to 125%. The rest of the spec is your usual Intel Atom N280, 945GSE chipset, 1 GB of memory and a 160 GB hard drive.
Although it was a middling performer in the CrystalMark benchmark, the Sony VAIO W did not fare well in the battery test with the lowest battery life of 107 minutes in the Battery Eater Pro test.
It took us a while to get used to the keys that are nicely spaced out and sturdy enough to handle heavy typing. However, the keyboard tray left plenty of room for multimedia control keys, which were missing. Moreover, the right hand shift key was way too small and many-a-times we missed it while typing.
It took us a while to figure out the power button which is located on the front panel as against the usual top of the keyboard.
The sound quality of this device wasn't what we would have expected from a Sony. The output was tinny and it suffered from distortion at higher levels.
Source: Express Computers
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