before i bought it, i had the same doubts most people have such as will it have enough memory and speed?
the size is truly tiny but i've been really impressed with the quality, performance and expansion capabilities.
in addition to the speed and efficiency, the service people were very personable and concerned--i will be an amazon client for life.
i also downloaded mozilla firefox and have noticed no changes on in speed.
speed and everything is the same except the size of course.
netbooks have been criticized for their sluggish performance, but some perspective is needed here.
it is best suited for general use and performance - which it excels at well.
pros: this is my second buy from newegg after seeing the 1st one performance.
pros: absolute great balance between size and performance, feels very solid and looks like it means business.
a laptop has almost all the features (see product page at amazon.com) that any selective buyers are looking to purchase: performance, features and price in one package at current time.
i hate to comment on battery life, that's so dependent on how bright you make the screen, processor speed settings and the like.
most of all, performance is excellenet.
performance:
the computer performance is good (4.9 vista score) but this problem with the screen caused my laptop to be a waste of money...
pros: compact , lightweight, comes with everything you need right out of the box, speed is decent, fans on the side as well as the bottom so to not heat up as easily.
pros: small, good speed for it's size.
this sony vaio rocks...with it's lightning speed, amazing sound and visual ecstasy!
love the speed, the quality, really love everything about it.
watching tv with an external tuner while running several resource-demanding applications such as photoshop cs4 on two monitors can slow things down a bit, but that would be a demand on any system.
this particular wlan interface moves around like a shuttlecock; wlan upload speed burts up to 360kb/s, 230-260kb/s sustained; download speed over 1mb/s burst, 800-950kb/s sustained.
with regard to the specifications and performance, it has the same specs as most n270 class netbooks but it has suprisingly snappy performance at a low pricepoint cons: loses an egg for having
atom processor is by no means a workhorse, but i am able to easily work on documents, browse the web, and put together powerpoint presentations with no problems whatsoever with regards to speed.
battery lasts 5plus hours even when at times on the performance setting.
energy management software does greatly affect battery life or optimizes performance.
occasionally it would kick in a full speed and sound like a playing card in a kid's bicycle spokes.
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