Sony PCG-FXA10
When we think Vaio, we usually associate the words slim-line, light, and elegant. This Vaio is quite the opposite. It weighs a bit over 3kg, which we consider on the heavy side. It's also quite thick and it looks like a clone notebook: plain, square, and quite boring. It features all the standard connectors as well as an integrated floppy disk drive.
Another thing that grabbed our attention was the processor; the Sony featured an AMD Athlon XP 1400+ processor. It wasn't able to match the 1.8GHz Pentium 4-based notebooks, but this may have largely been due to its
The Sony comes with a combo DVD/CD-RW drive, which would have added some considerable cost to the notebook. Surprisingly, it retails for only $2899, making it the least expensive notebook we reviewed. With that said you get what you pay for, and this Sony certainly loses in the quality and portability stakes. Battery life wasn't the best either; it only managed to run our Battery Mark test for 139 minutes.
| Product: | Sony PCG-FXA10 |
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| Price: | AU$2899 |
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| Vendor: | Sony |
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| Phone: | 1300 138 246 |
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| Web: | www.sony.com.au |
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| Interoperability: |
½Good selection of connectors. |
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| Futureproofing: |
½
Only 8MB of video memory. |
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| ROI: |
½Quite inexpensive, but lacks build quality. |
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1-year warranty. |
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| Rating: |
½ |
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