Sony VAIO W11SIE Netbook review

The Sony Vaio W11SIE netbook measures 26.5×17.5×2.5cm and weights 1120grams. Mine was a lovely matt white (with a hint of blue) colour apart from the silver vaio inset into the lid.

The Sony PCGA-BP71 battery raises the base by around .5cm to give the keyboard some rake. The back is clear as the screen folds down over it. Front has wireless on/off slider, two card slots one for MS and one for SD, three LED’s and the slider to turn the unit on.

The left side has the DC input, VGA outlet and audio sockets for microphone and headset. The right side has two USB sockets and Ethernet port IBM ThinkPad R50 Battery .

Open the lid and the silver grey keyboard surrounded by the grey surround is revealed ThinkPad T42 Battery. The screen surround is white and the viewable screen is 22×12.5cm giving the notional diagonal measurement of 10.1 inches. Above the screen is a motion eye webcam, as the surround is white this is far more noticeable than it would be on black.

The keyboard has 83 keys with the alpha and numeric keys (1.3×1.1cm) being than the others but spacing between the keys is nearly .4cm so no real danger of hitting two keys at once LENOVO 40y6795 . This is just about touch typeable.

The trackpad is 10cm from the left and 11cm from the right with three pin hole LED’s on the top edge of it.

The processor is an Intel Atom 1.66GHz and it has 1GB or RAM. The hard disc is stated at 160GB with 145GB of it is a single ‘C’ unit. The rest I assume is a hidden recovery partition IBM 40y6799.

The software is Windows XP Home, a range of VAIO utilities, some ArcSoft applications, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Roxio Easy Media Creator. Norton Online Backup is on the PC but no anti virus was present on the PC with IBM 92p1101 .

Of course not having anti virus does tend to give better boot and shutdown times but as one can become infected in seconds short sighted. The boot time was 35seconds and shutdown 10seconds.

There is a User Guide installed that seems quite comprehensive, however I searched though its 127 pages and could find no mention of Anti Virus IBM 92p1102 .

The applications I added (via USB stick) seemed quite responsive. Sound quality through the hidden speaker was good and plenty loud enough for such a device. The web cam and the ArcSoft software are worthy of a mention as not only does it capture good quality images even in low light (up to 640×480) it even has a IBM 40Y7001 IBM 40Y7003 monitoring application.

You would need a word processing/spreadsheet package and perhaps when you have installed some anti virus software one of the free ones could be downloaded from the WWW. Otherwise this small neat Netbook was a rather nice package.

Sony Alpha 230, 330, and 380 DSLRs out on May 19?

Sony Alpha 230, 330, and 380 DSLRs out on May 19?

This next item is for all of you DSLR fiends who are champing at the bit in nervous anticipation of the revamped Sony Alpha 230, 330, and 380 DSLRs that were subject to some leakage a week or so ago. It looks like the cameras in question will be the raison d’être of a press event that the company has scheduled for the 19th of May, so you may just be getting your hands on the video-less wonders in short order — y’know, if that’s what you’re into. With prices starting at €549.99 (around $738) and going up from there, these bad boys feature a revised UI, HDMI out, and Memory Stick Duo support. And if you think that’s exciting, wait’ll you get a load of the spec breakdown! Peep it after the break.The Alpha 230 330 is the update of Alpha 200 battery grip, Alpha 300 battery grip.

[Via Photo Rumors]

α230: €549.99 ($738)

APS-C CCD with 10.2 million pixels

BIONZ image processor

Anti-dust system

laptop battery manufacture 2.7-inch LCD (230,000 pixels)

9 point autofocus with crosshair

Dynamic Range Optimization for the brightness setting and adjustment of motifs with backlight

SteadyShot, compatible with all a lenses

Integrated automatic Ausklappblitz

Viewfinder with 95% field coverage

HDMI port

BRAVIA Sync

Dimensions (WxHxD): 128 mm x 97 mm x 67.5 mm

Weight (without battery): 450 g

Battery grip :VG-B30AM

α330: €650 ($870) / €600 ($805) body only

APS-C CCD with 10.2 million pixels

BIONZ image processor

Anti-dust system

Tilt 2.7-inch LCD (230,000 pixels)

Quick AF Live View: quick auto focus and a live preview on the LCD display

9-point autofocus with crosshair

Dynamic Range Optimization for the brightness setting and adjustment of motifs with backlight

SteadyShot, compatible with all a lenses

Integrated automatic Ausklappblitz

Viewfinder with 95% field coverage

HDMI port

BRAVIA Sync

Dimensions (WxHxD): 128 mm x 97 mm x 71.4 mm

Weight (without battery grip): 490 g

α380: €800 ($1074) / €750 ($1,006) (body only)

APS-C CCD with 14.2 million pixels

BIONZ image processor

Anti-dust system

Tilt 2.7-inch LCD (230,000 pixels)

Quick AF Live View: quick auto focus and a live preview on the LCD display

9-point autofocus with crosshair

Dynamic Range Optimization for the brightness setting and adjustment of motifs with backlight

SteadyShot, compatible with all a lenses

Integrated automatic Ausklappblitz

Viewfinder with 95% field coverage

HDMI port

BRAVIA Sync

Dimensions (WxHxD): 128 mm x 97 mm x 71.4 mm

Weight (without laptop battery): 490 g

Now Digitalcamerabattery.us order VG-B30AM battery grip for these cameras.

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