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Sweet it for the size not for the perfomance
Sony VAIO Lifestyle VGN-P688E/N 8-Inch Laptop - Gold
 List Price: $999.99 |
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Product Description
Your portal to the clique, the fashionable VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC delivers your entertainment and computing in a single go-anywhere design. Features like built-in non-stationary broadband and real-time GPS functionality tell only a partial story. The bottom line of work is that this chic little 1.4lb (with standard battery) computing sidekick will navigate a perfect fit with your life, whether it’s for business, pleasure, or both.About the measurements of a business envelope and roughly as thin as a cell phone, the Sony VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC weighs fair 1.4 pounds and is small enough to slip into a jacket pocket or handbag. But more than honourable offering easy mobility, the Lifestyle PC is packed full of advanced computing, communication, and turning up capabilties. It comes with the Windows Vista Home Premium operating system, supporting commission applications and all the software programs routinely found in full-size notebooks. This version of the Lifestyle PC (standard P688E/N) comes in gold, but it's also available emerald green, onyx black, garnet red, and semiprecious stone white.
 The Sony VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC in gold. |
 The Lifestyle PC's keyboard is precisely engineered to maximize the typing block with ingeniously-spaced keys for both long fingernails and large hands. |
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The high-resolution, backlit 8-inch ultra-large XBRITE-ECO display provides razor-sharp viewing on the go. It's powered by a 1.33 GHz Intel processor and includes a 64 GB durable state drive for faster read/write times and greater self-assurance, memory expansion via Memory Stick media and Secure Digital (SD) honour cards, and 2 GB of RAM (maximum capacity), and Windows Vista Home Basic operating system (32-bit). Other features encompass a Motion Eye webcam (with omnidirectional microphone) integrated into the to right corner of the evince bezel for easy video chats, two USB ports, and a VGA port for connecting to an surface monitor. The unit features up to four hours of battery life with the included yardstick capacity battery and eight hours with the large capacity battery (sold one at a time).
This Sony notebook is Energy Star 4.0 certified, and has received a Silver EPEAT title for meeting standards to help reduce its environmental impact. Additionally, it is RoHS-meeting the requirements, effectively reducing the environmental impact by restricting the use of lead, mercury and trustworthy other hazardous substances.
Key Features
- 8-inch XBRITE-ECO LED-backlit screen with 1600 x 768-pixel merry-def resolution (Learn more)
- 1.33 GHz Intel processor with 512 KB L2 cache and 533 MHz front-side bus (FSB)
- 64 GB well-built state drive is free of moving parts and designed to last longer than a stodgy spinning hard drive. Plus, solid state drives are almost two times faster than commonplace drives.
- 2 GB of RAM (533 MHz) maximizes capacity
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 500 with up to 760 MB of shared video reminiscence
- Built-in real-time GPS lets you navigate even the most unfamiliar places with opulence--no internet connection required. (Learn more)
- MOTION EYE webcam and microphone lets you at snap photos and video chat with friends and family.
- Verizon Wireless Agile Broadband Built-In for constant connection on the go and no additional wireless card needed (broadband internet utilization required).
- Draft-N Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g/n) for greater speed and range
- Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity enables you to deliver and synchronize with Bluetooth-enabled peripherals such as PDAs and cell phones as well as take wireless stereo music streaming (thanks to its embedded A2DP profile).
- Intel Ear-splitting Definition Audio with headphone output
- Microsoft Windows Vista Hospice Premium (32-bit) operating system (Learn more)
- Up to 4 hours of battery life
- Dimensions: 9.7 x 4.8 x 0.8 inches (WxDxH)
- Heaviness: 1.4 pounds
- Warranty: 1-year limited hardware warranty, and 1-year of levy-free telephone technical assistance (a 1-year international service scheme is also available).
Networking, Connectivity & Expansion
Enjoy easy wireless networking with the integrated tri-condition Atheros Draft-N wireless LAN (compatible with 802.11b/g/n wireless networks). Based on the diagram 802.11n Wi-Fi specification, it offers up to five times the performance and twice the wireless lot as existing 802.11g wireless. It's also backward compatible with 802.11b/g networks (equally found in home routers and wi-fi hotspots). It comes with the following external connectors:
- 2 USB 2.0 ports for connecting a deviant range of peripherals--from digital cameras to MP3 players
- Analog video generate: 1 VGA
- 1 I/O port
- 1 headphone jack
- Memory Stick Duo media position with MagicGate functionality
- Secure Digital card slot (compatible with MMC media)
What's in the box
This bundle contains the Sony VAIO Lifestyle VGN-P688E/N laptop, standard capacity rechargeable battery (VGPBPS15/B), AC adapter, power twine, 2 spare pointing stick caps, printed user enchiridion.
It also comes with the following software: Norton Internet Security 2009 (30-day tentative), Microsoft Works SE 9.0, VAIO Media plus multimedia streaming software
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8-Inch Intoxicated-Definition XBRITE-ECO Display
You'll enjoy razor-sharp graphics and widescreen pictures with the 8-inch display, which offers a 1600 x 768 widescreen resolution. The XBRITE-ECO technology (with LED backlighting) delivers expert colors and stunning clarity with efficient power usage, and it features an unwilling-reflective coating to minimize reflection and ensure a beautifully clear counterpart from any viewing angle. Video is powered by the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 500 integrated graphics intercede, which uses shared video memory (up to 760 MB allocated from the system memory). It's in agreement with external monitor resolutions up to 1600 x 1200. The Lifestyle PC also sports an integrated audio funny man destined with Intel High Definition Audio and a headphone jack.
VAIO Lifestyle PC Innovations
 A intact GPS solution. |
Engineered to provide the feel of a larger notebook, the VAIO Lifestyle PC provides a convenient typing familiarity by extending the keyboard to the perimeters of the chassis maximizing the typing area. The spacing between keys has also been engineered to serve reduce typing mistakes making it perfect for long fingernails.
When you have more than a few entry permit or web pages open at once, your screen can get a little chaotic. But thanks to a special window agreement utility, you can organize them all with one simple touch. Press a button and watch as all your susceptible windows are presented side-by-side on a single screen, cutting clutter and giving you a new perspective on your workspace.
The unit also has an instant-mode option that launches anon into Sony's Xross Media Bar interface--the same intuitive system found on the PLAYSTATION 3 and select BRAVIA HDTVs--so you can speedily boot up and access music, video, photos and the Web. A built-in webcam lets you video tete- with family, friends and colleagues.
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Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System
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Every printing of Windows Vista provides the essential tools and technologies to help foster you whether you are browsing the Internet, connecting to a wireless network, or just reading e-mail. All editions of Windows Vista subsume new tools that can warn you of impending hardware failures long before you have lost any urgent personal data. And, all Windows Vista editions include parental restraint features that allow you to manage and monitor your family's use of games, the Internet, overnight messaging, and other activities.
Customer Reviews
expense is everythinglooks like Sony is irritating to botch the netbook market like they did with the mp3 player. Too expensive for less performance, then you can get for 1/2 the premium. Sony is turning into the GMC of electronics. Go with ASUS, or ACER.
Sweet it for the size not for the perfomance
This is a cool product, in winodws 7 it perform ok, you have to keep in mind is a very small net book made for email et photo storage in a vacation , it like it do the job, do not take over from your home computer whit this...but think if it like a speare tire,
rated 4-5
Abundant little laptop for travel; bit pricy and perhaps discontinued?
Point as advertised and no problems with purchase/delivery issues. Best price I could find for this memo.
Serve! Some techie should put LINUX on this
This tragedy would be a great opportunity for some LINUX techie--
buy up all the castoff units at 10% of retail; convert to a adequate fullfeature LINUX OS;
sell for 50% of retail !!!
Anyone listening? Sony?
You'll buy it for looks; finally not worth the tag.
Peradventure I got a fluke, but Sony's so-called "full laptop" computer in an 8" form factor is like irksome to run Vista on your mom's old P3. Seriously, this thing absolutely crawls. All this would be acceptable were it not for the very mediocre battery-operated life (forget 4 hours, I couldn't even manage 2 with moderately heavy use), when any other netbook (that's right, netbook) for well under partially the price outperforms it in battery life AND performance. Ironic; the 1.33Ghz processor undeniably is a step down from the 1.66Ghz Atoms in netbooks, despite what I've been told to the contrary about the sundry "architecture."
But that's just on the hardware front. It powers on fast enough, but right from the get-go you're slammed with lots of bloatware and tons of programs that are slow to load into memory, one after the other (that's right, it's not even a dual heart). These can be uninstalled--though not cleanly, as they leave some registry junk data behind. But there's little that can be done about yet another software-cognate problem: drivers. The video driver on here is one of the worst experiences I've had to date with video displays. HD video was an total disaster, even though the chipset (google "Poulsbo" or GMA500) claims it to be able to decode 720p HD video. So when I tried to horse around a simple HQ youtube vid (not even HD) and met with stuttering far worse than my friend's Asus Eee PC, which cost about 350, I was understandably be victorious over. As for the faster disk drive with the SSD, this may be true. But when you can't run even basic productivity apps at full swiftness, any HD speed increase was unnoticeable. My Eee for instance has a conventional "slow" HD but gets the job done (except for doubling files) much more quickly.
A lot of this might be Vista's fault. But before you think of downgrading to the faster, lighter XP, let me tip off you--you'll have even more issues with Sony's drivers. Linux? Forget about it; Intel's Poulsbo drivers are in a pitiful splendour there too. When the most appealing attribute of the system--the hi-res screen, mind you--is nearly unusable with any other options, one can't remedy but feel a bit ripped off. The webcam's quality isn't very good (the Eee wins again), and the WWan (motorized broadband) is locked to Verizon, so don't think about other companies unless you "unlock" the piece: more time and trouble. The wireless-N support is supposed to be great, but it was dodgy on my territory network (maybe it was just my unit or config...or vista, but again, my other devices worked bright). They keyboard and ergonomics are fine, but again, the only good words for this unit, for this evaluation, are surface-deep.
Parting advice: the reviews on this "Lifestyle PC" are low for good reason. I quite wish I'd seen Amazon's reviews earlier. (This unit wasn't from Amazon but from Sony themselves).
