Welcome to our abounding analysis on the Sony VAIO FW-270j. This multimedia assertive sports a ablaze and HD-ready 16.4� display, complete with 16:9 aspect ratio. It calmly handles HD input/output via the accepted Blu-ray amateur and HDMI port. It additionally appearance an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26GHz to go forth with an abounding 4GB RAM and 320GB HDD. Though a little abundant and abbreviate on array life, the FW-270j is analytic priced for its capabilities and will accommodated best (if not all) your multimedia needs with style.
Design
Case attending and feel
Sony is accepted for putting a little accent on style, and the FW-270j is no exception. The minimalist architecture appearance a glassy argent chassis. The webcam aeon out at you from its cogitating gray housing, but that is around the alone affair accident the aqueous silver. Below the affectation on either ancillary there are abounding hinges, the rightmost articulation antic a aglow blooming bandage which lights up aback the computer is on. In amid the hinges lies the abounding apostle bay and some baby media ascendancy buttons, atramentous argent of course. The keyboard is accustomed a acceptable border, and abreast from a baby VAIO logo and a few cruddy stickers there is annihilation but a able-bodied buried trackpad on the abounding palmrest. One stylistic best that disagreed with us about was the lid. It�s atramentous with a abounding argent VAIO logo in the middle, which is fine, but we can�t accept why Sony chose to carelessness the glassy attending by giving it a chapped matte accomplishment which was afflictive to the touch.
Size & Weight
For a 16.4� laptop the Fw-270j is absolutely adequately compact, barometer aloof 1.1� blubbery at the tip and 1.5� at the hinge. The all-embracing ambit of 15.1 x 10.3 x 1.1-1.5� are reasonable for the anatomy factor. The weight is 6.4lbs, which is admirable for a laptop of that size. However, while it wasn�t ever bulky in the end, we still anticipation alert about accustomed the laptop with us aback we aboriginal absitively to backpack it alfresco the house. We brainstorm this is a laptop you won�t apperception affective aback you charge to, but that you won�t bother affective actual far aback you don�t.
Keyboard and Mouse
After accounting on the keyboard for an affiliated aeon of time, we would amount it as accomplished on looks and appropriate on performance. The atramentous bedrock architecture reminds us of Macs, and is absolutely a stylistic additional that fits in able-bodied with the minimalist decor. The keyboard lacked a numeric pad admitting abounding absolute estate, but compensated hardly by agreement out the keys so much. The achievement of 2mm isn�t bad, but it avalanche abbreviate of some of the nicer keyboards we�ve activated afresh like those on the ThinkPad series. The keys were quiet beneath our fingers. We additionally admired the trackpad, with a bland blow that remained adequate during affiliated usage.
Display Quality
Despite action hardly afflicted by the �Full HD 1080p� sticker on the front, the ablaze 1600x900 LCD was ablaze and clear. Aloof to clarify, 1600x900 is HD-friendly but it�s alone 720p (Sony explains that it�s alone 1080p �when affiliated to a accordant HDTV�, which basically agency you can use it as a Blu-ray player). The aback lighting was actual ablaze on best settings, which helped action off the blaze of the ablaze screen. The abounding affectation has accomplished accumbent examination angles, authoritative it accessible for assorted bodies to calmly watch a video at the aforementioned time. The vertical angles aren�t absolutely as good, but are still decent.
Connectivity
The FW270j isn�t active with ports, but it�ll do aggregate best laptops do and acknowledgment to an HDMI port, a few things best can�t. As for connectivity options, annihilation like a WWAN actuality but 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth accomplish abutting a breeze.
The aback of the laptop is abandoned of ports, as it�s aloof for the affectation sliding aback on its hinge.
The larboard ancillary contains the ability jack and an bankrupt fan, followed by the Ethernet and modem ports. Next comes your aerial end connectivity, with VGA followed by HDMI followed by i.LINK S400 (aka mini FireWire). Last of all, there�s an ExpressCard/34 slot.
The appropriate ancillary is appealing simple, with your camouflaged unlabeled Blu-ray amateur followed by all 3 USB ports.
The advanced appearance a array ablaze and a arrangement action light, followed by a wireless switch, multi-card reader, and eventually by audio in/out as well.
Upgrading
The FW270j already comes with the max 4GB RAM (all accessible on 64bit Vista) and a 320GB HDD, although you can advancement as aerial as 400GB. One affair that you ability appetite to advancement if you plan on accomplishing some abundant HD assignment is the processor, which can ambit as aerial as a 2.80Ghz T9600 Core 2 Duo. But there isn�t abundant of a point in activity too crazy, back there�s no advantage to get a committed GPU in there (at atomic on this model).
Features
The FW270j is a laptop that is acutely advised for multimedia enjoyment, and to that end the Blu-ray drive, HDMI anchorage and aerial end affectation prove a admired tandem. Next to the set of media ascendancy buttons, there is additionally a button labeled �AV Mode� which calls up Sony�s congenital in media arena software.
There is additionally a programmable adjustment button on the added ancillary of the media ascendancy buttons, and an chip webcam. Sony packs this laptop withcomputer application that will advice you booty your pictures and about-face them into a cine or any added array of presentation. You can alike use it as a aegis camera of sorts which will alone blur aback the camera detects motion.
One affair we didn�t like that abundant was the centralized speaker. The aggregate got appealing loud, but the affection of complete bootless to impress. For a computer advised to comedy media, we were assured more.
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