Sony Vaio CA Green!0

Well it finally arrived. Sony said they would send me an email so that i could track its delivery once it got to Europe but that never happened. I had an email over a week ago telling me it had been built and had been sent to Europe and that was the last i heard until it turned up on my doorstep today. Anyway, never mind, it’s here now and it’s fabulous! I’ll have a good old play on it and then jot down a few thoughts afterwards but initially i’m pleased at how solid it feels. It seems much better built that my Dell laptop.

UPDATE: Well i am loving this mean green vaio machine! The backlit keyboard is brilliant, i can honestly say that i’d never want to go back to a non-backlit keyboard now. It also feels very sturdy as does the whole laptop.  The sound from the little speakers is quite low but it doesn’t sound tinny. The screen is lovely, i use photoshop daily for my work and the colour, brightness and size is spot on (for a portable laptop). I tried a BlueRay (Avatar) and it looked amazing!

The glow is weird, i can’t explain it. You know how glow-in-the-dark materials look in the dark? Well this looks like that during the day! It’s ever so strange but a really nice effect. The mouse pad always looks like it’s lit up even though it isn’t. The fan is very quiet – i have the power mode set to balanced and i hardly ever hear it.  I’ve been using it for 1 hour 30 minutes on the battery and the indictor is telling me i have another 2 hours and 2 minutes left. This has been browsing and about 15 minutes in photoshop.

The 1GB graphic card i *think* is supposed to switch itself automatically depending on what you’re doing. I’m not really a computer gamer apart from World of Warcraft but that looks much MUCH better than on my Dell laptop (which has a 512mb graphic card). So anyway, i’m very pleased with this laptop, it’s definately the best one i’ve ever had and would probably go for Sony again.