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Sony VAIO VGN-Z540
10
final rating

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Criteria Comments Rating
  • Speed and features No comments great!
  • Design and form factor No comments great!
  • Battery life The extended battery lasts around 7 hours on medium brightness, wifi on, constant activity but nothing intensive good
  • Display No comments great!
  • Durability No comments great!
  • Expandability No comments great!
  • Noise optical drive sometimes a little noisy good
  • Portability (size / weight) No comments great!
Detailed review
Overall a very solid laptop, both performance and build quality. Sony is know for good screens and great keyboards. A few minor things, the wifi software that comes preinstalled does not work very well for me, I just used the default settings in Windows; the weight of the laptop increases dramatically with the extended battery, I guess this is the cost of having longer battery life.

+ performance
+ dedicated graphics card
+ Chiclet keyboard
+ great screen
+ build quality

- battery life (better with extended battery)
- weight (worse with extended battery)
-- price
review history
2012-02-22
Updated detailed review