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Sony VAIO Lifestyle VGN-P688E/Q 8-Inch Laptop - Black
 List Price: $999.99 |
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Product Description
Your portal to the in all respects, the fashionable VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC delivers your entertainment and computing in a single go-anywhere design. Features like built-in alert broadband and real-time GPS functionality tell only a partial story. The bottom put is that this chic little 1.4lb (with standard battery) computing sidekick will make as if a perfect fit with your life, whether it’s for business, pleasure, or both.About the magnitude of a business envelope and roughly as thin as a cell phone, the Sony VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC weighs well-founded 1.4 pounds and is small enough to slip into a jacket pocket or handbag. But more than valid offering easy mobility, the Lifestyle PC is packed full of advanced computing, communication, and discovery capabilties. It comes with the Windows Vista Home Premium operating system, supporting section applications and all the software programs routinely found in full-size notebooks. This version of the Lifestyle PC (mock-up P688E/Q) comes in onyx black, but it's also available emerald green, garnet red, sparkler white, and gold.
 The Sony VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC in onyx black. |
 A built-in webcam lets you video talk with friends, family and colleagues practically anywhere you go. |
 The Lifestyle PC's keyboard is precisely engineered to build up the typing area with ingeniously-spaced keys for both long fingernails and thickset hands. |
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The high-resolution, backlit 8-inch ultra-inclusive 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 rugged state drive for faster read/write times and greater hardihood, memory expansion via Memory Stick media and Secure Digital (SD) recall cards, and 2 GB of RAM (maximum capacity), and Windows Vista Home Basic operating system (32-bit). Other features involve a Motion Eye webcam (with omnidirectional microphone) integrated into the to right corner of the grandeur bezel for easy video chats, two USB ports, and a VGA port for connecting to an extraneous monitor. The unit features up to four hours of battery life with the included measure capacity battery and eight hours with the large capacity battery (sold alone).
This Sony notebook is Energy Star 4.0 certified, and has received a Silver EPEAT tag for meeting standards to help reduce its environmental impact. Additionally, it is RoHS-in compliance, effectively reducing the environmental impact by restricting the use of lead, mercury and indisputable other hazardous substances.
Key Features
- 8-inch XBRITE-ECO LED-backlit screen with 1600 x 768-pixel hilarious-def resolution (Learn more)
- 1.33 GHz Intel processor with 512 KB L2 cache and 533 MHz front-side bus (FSB)
- 64 GB continuous state drive is free of moving parts and designed to last longer than a established spinning hard drive. Plus, solid state drives are almost two times faster than usual drives.
- 2 GB of RAM (533 MHz) maximizes capacity
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 500 with up to 760 MB of shared video recall
- Built-in real-time GPS lets you navigate even the most unfamiliar places with serenity--no internet connection required. (Learn more)
- MOTION EYE webcam and microphone lets you quick snap photos and video chat with friends and family.
- Verizon Wireless Flexible Broadband Built-In for constant connection on the go and no additional wireless card needed (broadband internet appointment required).
- Draft-N Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g/n) for greater speed and range
- Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity enables you to tender 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 Acute Definition Audio with headphone output
- Microsoft Windows Vista Family 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)
- Charge: 1.4 pounds
- Warranty: 1-year limited hardware warranty, and 1-year of levy-free telephone technical assistance (a 1-year international service representation is also available).
Networking, Connectivity & Expansion
Enjoy easy wireless networking with the integrated tri-fashion Atheros Draft-N wireless LAN (compatible with 802.11b/g/n wireless networks). Based on the bill of exchange 802.11n Wi-Fi specification, it offers up to five times the performance and twice the wireless scope 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 far-reaching range of peripherals--from digital cameras to MP3 players
- Analog video achievement: 1 VGA
- 1 I/O port
- 1 headphone jack
- Memory Stick Duo media job with MagicGate functionality
- Secure Digital card slot (compatible with MMC media)
What's in the box
This package contains the Sony VAIO Lifestyle VGN-P688E/Q laptop, guideline capacity rechargeable battery (VGPBPS15/B), AC adapter, power cord, 2 bones pointing stick caps, printed user manual.
It also comes with the latter software: Norton Internet Security 2009 (30-day trial), Microsoft Works SE 9.0, VAIO Media added to multimedia streaming software
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8-Inch High-Definition XBRITE-ECO Betray
You'll enjoy razor-sharp graphics and widescreen movies with the 8-inch open out, which offers a 1600 x 768 widescreen resolution. The XBRITE-ECO technology (with LED backlighting) delivers noted colors and stunning clarity with efficient power usage, and it features an defiant-reflective coating to minimize reflection and ensure a beautifully clear incarnation from any viewing angle. Video is powered by the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 500 integrated graphics whittle, which uses shared video memory (up to 760 MB allocated from the system memory). It's of one mind with external monitor resolutions up to 1600 x 1200. The Lifestyle PC also sports an integrated audio greetings card with Intel High Definition Audio and a headphone jack.
VAIO Lifestyle PC Innovations
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Engineered to forearm the feel of a larger notebook, the VAIO Lifestyle PC provides a convenient typing experience by extending the keyboard to the perimeters of the chassis maximizing the typing acreage. The spacing between keys has also been engineered to help reduce typing mistakes making it correct for long fingernails.
When you have more than a few documents or web pages open at once, your screen can get a little formless. But thanks to a special window arrangement utility, you can organize them all with one simple ignite. Press a button and watch as all your open windows are presented side-by-side on a single protect, cutting clutter and giving you a fresh perspective on your workspace.
The unit also has an split-second-mode option that launches directly into Sony's Xross Media Bar interface--the same telepathic system found on the PLAYSTATION 3 and select BRAVIA HDTVs--so you can rapidly boot up and access music, video, photos and the Web. A built-in webcam lets you video small talk with family, friends and colleagues.
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Windows Vista Home Premium Operating System
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Every issue of Windows Vista provides the essential tools and technologies to help guard you whether you are browsing the Internet, connecting to a wireless network, or just reading e-post. All editions of Windows Vista include new tools that can warn you of impending computer equipment failures long before you have lost any important personal data. And, all Windows Vista editions count parental control features that allow you to manage and monitor your family's use of games, the Internet, direct messaging, and other activities.
Customer Reviews
evaluation is everythinglooks like Sony is maddening 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 figure. Sony is turning into the GMC of electronics. Go with ASUS, or ACER.
Predilection it for the size not for the perfomance
This is a high-grade 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 substitute your home computer whit this...but think if it like a speare tire,
rated 4-5
Remarkable little laptop for travel; bit pricy and perhaps discontinued?
Filler as advertised and no problems with purchase/delivery issues. Best price I could find for this element.
Staff! 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; remodel to a decent fullfeature LINUX OS;
sell for 50% of retail !!!
Anyone listening? Sony?
You'll buy it for looks; for all not worth the tag.
Perhaps I got a fluke, but Sony's so-called "full laptop" computer in an 8" form factor is like worrying 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 ethical, netbook) for well under half the price outperforms it in battery life AND performance. Ironic; the 1.33Ghz processor in point of fact is a step down from the 1.66Ghz Atoms in netbooks, despite what I've been told to the contrary about the separate "architecture."
But that's just on the hardware front. It powers on fast enough, but right from the get-go you're slammed with masses 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 seed). 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-tied up 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 real disaster, even though the chipset (google "Poulsbo" or GMA500) claims it to be able to decode 720p HD video. So when I tried to take the role 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 spill. 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 assist, any HD speed increase was unnoticeable. My Eee for instance has a conventional "slow" HD but gets the job done (except for replication 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 premonish you--you'll have even more issues with Sony's drivers. Linux? Forget about it; Intel's Poulsbo drivers are in a pitiful assert 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 lend a hand but feel a bit ripped off. The webcam's quality isn't very good (the Eee wins again), and the WWan (movable broadband) is locked to Verizon, so don't think about other companies unless you "unlock" the hew a contribute: more time and trouble. The wireless-N support is supposed to be great, but it was dodgy on my expert in network (maybe it was just my unit or config...or vista, but again, my other devices worked delicate). They keyboard and ergonomics are fine, but again, the only good words for this unit, for this amount, are surface-deep.
Parting advice: the reviews on this "Lifestyle PC" are low for good reason. I definitely wish I'd seen Amazon's reviews earlier. (This unit wasn't from Amazon but from Sony themselves).
