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Sony VAIO VGN-SZ791N

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Pros
Clear, vibrant display
Hip design
Cons
Try the keyboard before you buy it
Poorly placed mouse buttons

Performance: Very Good: 80
Features: Good: 76
Design: Good: 76

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	410
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	361
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	623
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	3:50:00 AM
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	45.77
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	63.42
Firefox 2	237
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	355
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	251
Multitasking	377
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	615
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	217
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	245
WorldBench 6 Score	94
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Very Good

What You Should Know about the VAIO VGN-SZ791N

Multitask to Your Heart's Content and Not Bog Down

This laptop, equipped with at least 3GB of memory, will run all of your programs quickly (paired with a high-end CPU, that much memory will make things especially speedy). You'll be able to multitask to your heart's content, too, so go ahead--you can back up the entire contents of your hard drive to a DVD while watching YouTube videos and experimenting with textures on the 2MB photo of your client's art gallery in Photoshop. The main drawback is the extra expense: Loading up with more than the standard amount of RAM (2GB, these days) can add hundreds of dollars to a laptop's price, though it boosts performance by only about 10 percent. Also bear in mind that if you hope to use more than 3GB of RAM effectively, your PC must have a 64-bit installation of Windows.