Reveiw and Price of Sony Vaio E

It aids typing remarkably well, and is It aids typing remarkably well, and is wide enough to give your wrists a nice parking place on the VAIO E (VPCEB1AGG) laptop has a matte finish on its screen lid, with the keyboard situated at a lower level. Another design highlight of the Sony VAIO CW laptop reviewed earlier, the Sony VAIO E laptop has no hint of gloss on the VAIO E laptop has a matte finish on its screen lid, with the keyboard situated at a lower level. Another design highlight of the Sony VAIO E is confined to a small strip of palmrest, but it isn't overdone and looks just right. The VAIO E is confined to a small strip of palmrest, but it isn't overdone and looks just right.

 Apart from the 15-inch glossy LED-backlit screen, any other semblance of gloss anywhere else on its exterior--no more fingerprints and smudges troubles!--and this can't be said of many of our Top 5 Mainstream Laptop recommendations.  We may not be huge fans of its monotonous, all-black look, but like the Sony VAIO E is very well built and weighs 2.7-kg--about what you would expect from a 15-inch laptop with a six-cell battery.


VAIO Gate resides as an application dock along the top edge of the desktop; it The Sony VAIO E also bundles in a bunch of built-in software, out of which VAIO Gate is the most mention-worthy. The laptop comes with 64-bit Windows 7 Professional operating system. Disappointingly, despite its mainstream, all purpsose billing, the Sony VAIO E doesn't have a dedicated graphics card. The VAIO E also comes with an ExpressCard slot, an SDHC card reader, and Sony's proprietary MagicGate Memory Stick Duo reader.

 One of the USB ports on the VAIO E conveniently doubles up as an eSATA port--a trend we're seeing increasingly adopted by laptop manufacturers. Apart from all the regular input-output ports and a DVD writer, the VAIO E also includes Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, and Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity. Additionally, the VAIO E has 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 320GB hard drive, and onboard Intel GMA HD graphics--not a bad set of basic hardware building blocks, if compared to the Lenovo Ideapad Y550, Dell Inspiron 14-1464 or Acer Aspire 5740 laptops.  The Sony VAIO E-VPCEB1AGG is based on an Intel Core i5-520M 2.4-GHz processor with Intel Turbo Boost technology which dynamically allows the CPU to overclock (whenever required) to upto 2.93-GHz.

However, laptop battery shouldn't matter much if you're looking at the VAIO E as a laptop for predominantly home usage. We reckon you could get about 2 hours 30 minutes while browsing the Web (on power save mode) before plugging in the charger. Battery life, unfortunately, on the Sony VAIO E-VPCEB1AGG isn't very good: its six-cell battery failed to last an hour in our benchmark tests (on high performance preset).

 Sony also has few buttons above the keyboard that are pretty useful: Assist - to launch system recovery, Web - one push Web browser -- and they're very easy to find should the need arise. The trackpad has a fine granular texture to give optimum feedback, and the two separated mouse buttons are pretty good as well. In traditional Sony fashion, the VAIO E comes with an isolated, chiclet styled keyboard which is very good to type on. Onboard audio on the VAIO E was good for a laptop, nothing outstanding to mention here. Watching both 720p and 1080p HD video files was no problem at all on the VAIO E-VPCEB1AGG.

 The VAIO E's glossy screen is good for reading text as well as displaying crisp, vivid cinematic visuals. Its onboard Intel GMA HD graphics means you can forget about gaming on the VAIO E--why Sony couldn't pack in a dedicated graphics card is hard to understand. WorldBench 6, PC Mark 05, PC Mark Vantage, and Cinebench scores are pretty good for the processor and RAM deployed on the Sony VAIO E.  Equipped with an Intel Core i5-520M processor, there's no surprise the VAIO E did so well in our benchmarks.

Price Range starts from Rs 52,500