Sony VAIO Lifestyle VGN P688E G Netbook
Sony VAIO Lifestyle VGN P688E G 8 Inch Laptop Green
About the size of a business envelope and roughly as thin as a cell phone, the Sony VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC weighs just 1.4 pounds and is small enough to slip into a jacket pocket or handbag. But more than just offering easy mobility, the Lifestyle PC is packed full of advanced computing, communication, and location capabilties. It comes with the Windows Vista Home Premium operating system, supporting office applications and all the software programs routinely found in full-size notebooks. This version of the Lifestyle PC (model P688E/G) comes in emerald green, but it’s also available onyx black, garnet red, crystal white, and gold.
 The Sony VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC in emerald green. |
The Lifestyle PC incorporates built-in wireless WAN 3G Mobile Broadband, 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies. You can toggle among various wireless options for the most efficient connection–Wi-Fi for working at a coffee shop; Bluetooth for peripherals; and Mobile Broadband service on the Verizon Wireless nationwide network when traveling outside the reach of hotspots (subscription required). It also incorporates real-time GPS functionality, making it easy to find restaurants, hotels or special sites of interest. Destinations can be found by simply typing in an address or keyword and then following the turn-by-turn directions.
The high-resolution, backlit 8-inch ultra-wide XBRITE-ECO display provides razor-sharp viewing on the go. It’s powered by a 1.33 GHz Intel processor and includes a 64 GB solid state drive for faster read/write times and greater durability, memory expansion via Memory Stick media and Secure Digital (SD) memory cards, and 2 GB of RAM (maximum capacity), and Windows Vista Home Basic operating system (32-bit). Other features include a Motion Eye webcam (with omnidirectional microphone) integrated into the to right corner of the display bezel for easy video chats, two USB ports, and a VGA port for connecting to an external monitor. The unit features up to four hours of battery life with the included standard capacity battery and eight hours with the large capacity battery (sold separately).
This Sony notebook is Energy Star 4.0 certified, and has received a Silver EPEAT designation for meeting standards to help reduce its environmental impact. Additionally, it is RoHS-compliant, effectively reducing the environmental impact by restricting the use of lead, mercury and certain other hazardous substances.
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Star Very bad product
this laptop has troubles with wifi connection, i change it for a new one and it had the same issue. I contacted Sony Vaio customer service and they couldn’t resolve the problem.
2 Stars Small and liteweight, but kind of slow
I like Sony product overall, but this product was not too impress at all. I purhcased this 2 week ago, with 2 extra battery, travel bag, external VGA/Cat-5 network adapter (since I am traveling a lots and need a small notebook to do my work while traveling). Upon receive, it looks very cool, small and liteweight, but after use it, I am kind of disappoint, it is SLOW ( may be I get used to my 14.1 2.0G CPU, vs of this Atom slow CUP, for sure is slow). I know I can not return it, so I am planning to sell on eBay with discount, it can not really do my works at all (my wife is upset with me to only useit for few days and few hundred off to sell on ebay). I guess the Windows Vista Home and netbook CPU(Atom) is the main reason make it slow, most netbook come with XP (take less memory). [...]
Also, the display text is too small to read(but it display all content within this high res. small LCD, make sense), I have to set text font to 150%, but compare to my regular notebook 14.1 notebook still small. I would say, overall, this notebook can funcion as checking email and browse internet and looks cool, if you need a very small notebook and not too worry about speed and storage space for your daily simple works, this is good one.
by the way, key board size and battery life is pretty good, I like it.
jeff
1 Star Sony’s egomaniacal reign of terror continues unabated
When I first spotted this product in the Sony store, the only question that went through my mind over and over again was “…why…”.
First off, this is one amazingly well-engineered product. It’s solidly built, but still light and ultra portable. Despite the small screen, web pages and applications are displayed brilliantly – it was a great idea to make the screen wider than it is tall, like most widescreen desktop monitors. The battery life is impressive too, rated at about 6 hours with standard use. The keyboard is much easier to use than it looks, and the trackball is just as easy to use as a mouse pad.
Unfortunately, none of these features can withstand how incredibly asinine the price of this product is: A THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!!
When I was a child, I thought a thousand dollars was an impossibly large amount of money. It was hard to imagine what I would do with that much money. Now I know: I can spend it on a netbook that’s actually inferior in many respects to other netbooks out there.
To be fair, Intel and Microsoft have teamed up to make our lives miserable by severely restricting the specs of netbooks – in case you haven’t noticed already, almost all netbooks have extremely similar specs. Manufacturers must obey their guidelines, otherwise they are punished by being denied the latest and greatest processors. Hence, this netbook, which deviates from the norm, has a sub-standard processor when compared to the competition which cost hundreds less. You really can’t blame Sony for attempting to create a unique and successful product at the cost of performance which is really at the whim of the computer giants.
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Originally posted 2009-10-09 20:12:02. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
