Sony Intros VAIO E Series 15.5" Notebooks Discussion

Sony today silently introduced its VAIO E series notebooks featuring a 15.5-inch display.

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I always get a kick out of Sony's out of the ordinary screen sizes but what the deuce is with their choice of colors?




I haven't seen color schemes like that since the 80's.

 

I think it's a pretty good price for what you get. I read that the graphics card is actually pretty good. Plus the new i3 cpus.

The green one looks nice.

 

@Phinagle: they are offering keyboard skins for the model

 

I just noticed this model at the Belgian sonystyle store. The model with the 2.26 ghz corei5 will cost 850€. This is the first laptops in months which I'm actually considering to buy.
Its not expensive, looks look, and the hardware is good enough for my needs.
I just hope the cooling will be good. Those low prices (low for sony) also make me wonder about the screen quality, perhahps we will get a bad screen like in the nw series? I sure hope not.
Possible child-diseases also concern me a bit (like the new F series have that zooming issue).

Here's a youtube vid for the fans who want to see this thing in more detail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDvJ63LzY8Y

edit: oh oh, its as glossy as those dell inspirons...I hate fingerprints

 

I thought I read somewhere this has an HD screen option no?

 

"HD" or "HD+"? This technically has an HD screen since it has 720+ lines of vertical resolution; HD+ is 1600x900. Sony historically has not offered higher-res screens on its mainstream 15.x" notebooks.

 

i think the colors are great. the keyboard is a different color because of the skin, right? they probably just made them unmatching colors to draw attention to that.
whens the last time you saw a laptop where ALL the chassis matches anyway?

 

My T400 would like to say hello.

 

http://www.sonystyle.com.hk/ss/product/vaio/vpceb17fg_e.jsp

Radeon HD 5650 graphics? Interesting..

 

the trackpad is, where my hand is not ;-)

 

This is taking color customization to the next level, short of Alienware's keyboard FX.

 

Trackpad is skewed way too far to the left, for me.

 

Is there any practical reason why trackpads are more to the left nowadays? I recall most of them were dead in the center before.

 

Usually they are centered under the keyboard around the spacebar; many new 15.6" notebooks have a number pad so that pushes the keyboard over and the touchpad along with it.

 

What's with Sony and their strange sizes?
e 15.5
f 16.4
z 13.1

Why can't the go standard?

 

what happened to the 14" EA series? thought i read something on NBR about it

 

The E series DOES NOT have LED backlit display, none of the specs or features say so on the site and I asked a rep in chat on the site to confirm.

A question to anyone who has seen an E series in person, what are the "mouse" buttons like? I was very disappointed with the buttons on the CW series because I felt they pushed in to easily and seemed shoddy.

 

the thing sony is missing right now is a 'higher end' 15 inch. Take the mid teir ati graphics, put i5, arrendale i7 in there, switchable graphics, a sleek design, backlit keyboard, high res screen, and 5+ hours on integrated and sony has a winner.

 

Doesn't this model though offer a higher res with a better color option screen in Europe, or is that the F series?

 

I don't think they want E series to cannibalize the sales of F series. Probably it also is why it took a while fo rthem to offer CW with 330. And that probably is why HP got rid of HDX once they have Envy. There's no point in having multiple "higher-end" models in the same category.

 

Well this is because of the numpad. If you take a closer look you will realize (just like in F series) that the E series's got a numpad on the right side, so technically speaking the trackpad IS centered compared to the keyboard. You will be typing a bit closer to the left edge of the notebook because of the numpad =]

Its just that. And its better for ergonomics =]