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More…If you can adapt to the Sony VAIO VGN-FZ180E/B's slippery keyboard, you'll like this peppy $1999 laptop. It offers a big, bright screen, weighs very little, and has great battery life.
Sony VGM-FZ180e
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Latest Price: $1,328.95
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Processor
| Processor class | Core 2 Duo T7300 |
| Processor speed | 2000 MHz |
| Cache size | 4096 KB |
| Bus speed | 800 MHz |
Display
| Display size | 15.4 inches |
| Maximum resolution | 1280 x 800 |
| Aspect ratio | 16:10 |
| Display type | LCD Display w/ Glossy Screen |
Storage
| Total HD Size | 200 GB |
| Optical Drive Type | BD-RE/BD-R |
| Removable Optical Drive | No |
| Included drives | BD-RE/DVD+-RW Combo Drive |
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| Number of Media Slots | 2 |
Battery
| Number of Included Batteries | 1 |
| Standard Number of Batteries | 1 |
| Type of Batteries | Lithium ion |
| Vendor Rated Battery life | 4 |
Dimensions
| Weight (min) | 5.75 pounds |
| Weight (with accessories) | 6.7 lbs |
| Width | 14 inches |
| Depth | 10 inches |
| Height | 1.5 inches |
Networking
| Bluetooth | No |
| Included network card | Ethernet (10/100 Mbps) |
| Modem Type | V.92 |
| Wireless LAN Type | 802.11g |
Multimedia
| Video chipset | Intel 965 Express Chip Set |
| Installed video memory | 512 MB |
| Video integration | Integrated |
Interface Connections
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Pros
Includes a built-in Webcam
Huge hard drive
Cons
Keyboard feels uncomfortable
Bottom Line
Midsize notebook with a nice screen and Blu-ray Disc drive turned in great performance and long battery life.
Sony VAIO VGN-FZ180E/B
VGM-FZ180e Review, by Carla Thornton July 25, 2007
The VAIO VGN-FZ180E/B is certainly well equipped, with plenty of connections and a huge 200GB hard drive. The Blu-ray Disc drive and HDMI-output port are nice extras, to be sure. Its sound quality is dismal, however, and its A/V button does nothing more than launch Windows Media Player.
But the VAIO's 15.4-inch screen is superb. Based on Sony's proprietary Xbrite HiColor high-contrast technology, it is extremely bright and really makes colors pop. At 5.7 pounds, the VGN-FZ180E/B is light enough that you can easily carry this delectable screen almost anywhere, and the notebook held out for 4 hours, 28 minutes of battery life in our tests.
Equipped with a powerful 2-GHz Core 2 Duo T7300 processor and 2GB of RAM, the VAIO turned in a WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 75, but the Sony couldn't even launch--much less smoothly run--Far Cry or Doom 3 in our tests.
The keyboard feels a little cheaply made, maybe because the keys are so flat and polished, but the layout is fine. With practice, I got used to the slippery feel.
If you want a top-notch multimedia laptop, look to a Dell Inspiron or a Toshiba Satellite. For a nice work laptop with a great 15.4-inch screen, though, this VAIO fills the bill.
Carla Thornton
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PCWorld Lab Results
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74Performance
| Adobe Photoshop CS2 | 570 |
| Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX | 543 |
| Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering | 814 |
| Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm) | 4:28:06 AM |
| Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 9.17 |
| Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 15.57 |
| Firefox 2 | 308 |
| Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1 | 386 |
| Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0 | 281 |
| Nero 7 Ultra Edition | 924 |
| Number of Included Batteries | 1 |
| Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5 | 264 |
| Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0 | 441 |
| World Bench 5 Multitasking | 410 |
| WorldBench 6 Score | 75 |
| WorldBench 6 Word Score | Fair |
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