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Sony's VAIO VGN-A790 - Desktop ReplacementIf you're on the market for a desktop that you can fold up into a briefcase and lug around like a notebook, well, here's your man. The Sony VAIO VGN A790 is technically a laptop, but it offers the hardware for speed, power, and chutzpah to pull off any multimedia computing maneuver. Applications open up and run at the speed of light, and can do so even when more then one of them is open. We're talking a MobileMark score in the range of 240, including long disk writes and television burning.The root of the Sony A790's brawn includes a 2-GHz Centrino microprocessor, 1 GB of memory, and an ATI accelerator, not to mention an ATI Radeon X600 graphics card and 256 MB of dedicated video memory. What are such desktop-like numbers good for in a notebook? Well, for one, you could place the VAIO A790 in its TV tuner stand, with its external speakers tagging along, and record some of your favorite cop dramas onto the 100 GB hard drive. The TV tuner can download channel schedules, as well as pause and record live shows like TiVo can. While you're watching Starsky and Hutch grilling Huggy Bear, you won't be disappointed with the 17-inch widescreen with UXGA 1,920-1,200 default resolution. Or you could tap into the multimedia software suites for playing, recording, and editing basically anything with words, music, and/or images in it. Sony's VAIO Zone software connects all of these apps together much like, though not as well as, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition. Then burn up to 8 GB worth of your home DJ masterpieces onto a DVD for safe keeping with the double-layer read-write player. Nevertheless, the first time you try to type a little old-fashioned e-mail on the massive screen-or try to carry the monster around-you may begin to wonder the worth of such a massively equipped laptop. You may end up just leaving the beast on your desk at home for hardcore multimedia work, and carry around a smaller laptop for everything else. By Matthew Brodsky - Laptopical Monday, November 07, 2005 |
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