Sony Vaio YA Ultrabook Tech Review
Sony Vaio YA ultraportable notebook Executive Summary
What‘s Hot
- Good screen resolution
- Very compact 11.6″ screen size
- Only 1.46KG
What‘s Not
- Fairly average battery life
- Intel Core i3 is a low-end CPU
- No CD/DVD drive
X-Factor
- Affordable ultraportability!
The Vaio YA is like the ultra-high-end Z series in terms of looks and weight (1.46KG), without the extreme top-of-the-line specifications. Like everything Sony, it also has an brain-numbing product name: YPCYA15FGB.
It’s a little smaller than the Z, at 11.6″ — about the smallest we’d recommend going for real productivity. However, the screen resolution is still good — 1366x768px.
Inside, there’s a dual-core Intel Core i3 processor — one of Intel’s lower-end processors, but still faster than any of the previous generation of Core 2 Duo processors, so a reasonably speedy chip nonetheless.
It only has a 320GB hard drive, which is on the small side by current standards, but still ample for a medium-sized library of music, movies, TV shows and photos.
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There’s an HDMI output for connection to hotel TVs, as well as a VGA port for meeting-room projectors — something the Vaio Z doesn’t have. There’s a webcam for Skype video chats as well as an SD camera memory card slot.
Sony says the Sony vgp-bps2b battery is good for four hours’ use. What it hasn’t announced yet — and we can’t check, since the Vaio YA isn’t quite on sale yet — is the thickness of the machine.
Online: not on Sony‘s website at the time of publication — due for release within the next two weeks.
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February 4, 2013 Monday at 9:30 am
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