today we're going to be doing an unboxing of a Sony notebook this is a
notebook that I picked up for a family member of mine so it is uh gets a
Linus's Choice uh seal of approval especially at the price that NCIX had it
at on their Black Friday sale where I work so it has an Intel core I3 370m 4
gigs of RAM a 500 gig drive it is a 14-inch notebook with a DVD rewriteable
as well as Windows 7 Home Premium it is also a notebook in case there was any
confusion about about that and this will be the reintroduction of my unboxing
knife the one that I lost when I was traveling because I left it on my
keychain and tried to get on an airplane which was
stupid don't do that so I have I finally
have my SPID con knife back went and bought another one and so I have broken
the seal and I can put that away let's
find out uh about this notebook cuz to be
perfectly blunt with you guys I don't know much about it I bought it based on
one of my co-workers recommendations who said this one's a really good deal it's
on sale this week grab it cuz I know you need a notebook right now and oh here we
go so here we have Sony's summary of the specs so it's the I3 uh 370m that's a
2.4 GHz dual core processor 14-in
display at 1366 X 768 in terms of
Graphics we are using the Intel HD graphics which will be just fine for my
aunt and we have another seal to break so I'm going to pull out the knife again
and I want to really have a close look at this notebook for you guys because
uh I want to know what I got myself into
here what's the model of this one anyway
this is the Vio EA 33fd I probably
should have mentioned that before so in terms of packaging we've got
environmentally friendly cardboard packaging throughout the entire inside
so there's no foam as far as the I can see and uh let's have a look at what's
in here based on the weight I would say it's probably the battery and it is so
we have the battery as well as the adapter very reasonable size adapter not
too heavy which is nice if you're ever traveling around with your laptop so we
can go ahead and pull that out then we have the battery itself which has a bit
of a heft to oh that's a weird shaped battery isn't it look at that I wonder
how many cells it is uh here we go it is
a 3500 milliamp hour battery so runs at
11.1 volts I guess that's all the information we have at the moment let's
see what we got in terms of documentation we have a cyber coupon of
20% quick start guide okay and then we
have the notebook itself oh I found some foam that's okay I forgive them so
here's the uh the piece that holds the laptop itself in and then we can remove
the laptop so it's got a bit of a heft to it but you expect that with a 14in
unit they're not quite what you'd consider a thin and
light and
uh h honestly structural rigidity
doesn't come from nowhere and Sony laptops by and large are pretty well
built compared to some of the lower cost competitors so that's at least what I
have come to expect from them so I don't
necessarily need it to be the lightest thing in the world there we go finally
got that open
okay sorry this is taking so long guys
so there we go I got the foam removed I'm going to go ahead and install the
battery uh the top is a bit of a fingerprint
magnet already but well that's yet another thing that I've come to expect
from pretty much every laptop manufacturer out there no one seems to
be able to quite figure out a fingerprint fingerprint prooof coating
so as long as you don't mind wiping it down once in a while it's not that big of a deal unless you're like a total uh
total neat freak or whatever okay so let's figure out how this goes in aha so
the battery installation is a little bit different from what I'm used to it
actually operates on a little hinge here so you just slide the battery in like
that so it's simpler than I had originally thought now let's see if it
comes with any charge on the battery whatsoever uh my experience with recent
notebooks has been that it generally does so we've got a little screen
protector here on the chicklet keyboard let's get this guy opened up and uh the
hinge is actually quite nice a lot of the time with laptop hinges you can
really tell if they're flimsily built but this one seems to have a fair amount
of resistance to it and it feels quite solid even when you take it right to the
end ends and give it a little bit of a of a push it doesn't have any locks on
it so that means that it's going to have to hold itself closed you can see once
you get close to the end it'll finish it off for you and it holds itself shut
quite nicely but then when you give it a little bit of force you can open it up
very easily now in terms of the display
it looks like we're dealing with a glossy screen here although it's not as
bad as some of the glossy screens I've seen in terms of reflection so here
maybe you can kind of get it at sort of a worst case scenario angle you can see
my hand reflecting off the screen but really it's not that bad even though
we're sitting in office lighting right now which is pretty much a worst case
scenario so language selection I do have to set this up properly because it is
for my aunt so uh okay it'll be configured with English you cannot
change the language at a later date are you sure you want to continue Okay Okay
so we've got one touch access to Vare the web and media Gallery so the assist
button that'll be good for her and then we have the web Button as well as the
media Gallery button let's have a look at the keyboard itself because that's
one of the things that really sets uh sets one notebook apart from another for
me is the overall layout of the keyboard so all of the major keys are where I'd
expect them it is a bilingual layout so
you're going to find accent keys and all kinds of characters in pink all over the
place but they haven't made too many compromises that I'd be too unhappy with
if you have reasonable sized hands you're going to be able to reach the backspace key quite easily and you can
also reach the enter key without too much hassle the shift key is slightly
shortened but it's not in an unreasonable position I've seen
shortened shift keys that are like way over here and it's just not comfortable
to type on the right shift key is not shortened and you can reach it quite
easily as well we've got the sort of
normal complement of f Keys as well as
uh we've got British pounds we've got yeah we've got a whole bunch of different stuff here oh cameraman wants
to show the uh all the different inputs and outputs so here's our power here
we've got gigabit Lan then we have VGA
as well as HDMI I like this because you've got kind of the uh the old
standard and then the new standard both supported by this particular laptop
we've got an eSATA USB combo Port I love those those are so cool and then we've
got an Express card slot here moving around to the front of the notebook we
will find a oh that's right that's a memory stick
slot then we will find an s slot I'm glad Sony is finally starting to support
some of those industry standard standards rather than only their own so
SD is nice we've got a wireless switch I can pretty much guarantee I'm going to
get a support call from her about that at some point when she accidentally
turns it to off and then uh here we've got a headphone as well as a microphone
Jack and then on the other side uh we've
got three USB 2.0 ports as well as the DVD drive personally I don't need a DVD
drive for my laptop and I would go for something a little bit thinner a little
bit lighter in place of that but for a lot of people it is still essential uh
on the bottom we have
um H not a whole lot we've got access to
what appears to be memory upgrade as well as hard drive upgrade but uh that's
about it and realistically on a modern notebook that's about all you should be
upgrading anyway oh and there's a Kensington lock here that I missed before but yeah I mean on a on a modern
notebook you're not going to be like upgrading the CPU and upgrading the graphics so there's no real Point having
easy easy access to the whole thing now I'm just going to type this name while
you look away since I don't want everyone to necessarily know the name of
my aunt she doesn't need a password I I guess that's pretty much all I wanted to
wanted to say overall the touchpad is quite nice it's one of those textured
touchpads so this is this part is smooth and the chassis itself oh that's that's
actually really solid the chassis itself has very little Flex to it I'm just
going to mash the keyboard a little bit here you know what I I should even
almost take this off the table because the movement of the table is uh really
making it look like it has a lot more Flex than it does I'm just going to come right down to the floor and I want you
guys to have a look at the keyboard and compare this to your keyboard at home
see how my Knuckles are all going white I'm putting a lot of pressure on this
and there is no flex whatsoever in the
keyboard itself so that is how that is what really separates the men from the
boys when you're talking the overall build quality of a laptop is how much
the chassis gives when you take it and you try to flex it like this or when you
try and push down on the keyboard so that's it's not always all about specs
and all about screen size there's a lot that goes into designing a laptop uh the
touch pad as I mentioned before is textured so it's one of those ones
that's not going to get greasy and sticky if you're using it for an
extended period of time it has a left and right click Button as we PC users
are accustomed to and uh like I said I think that's pretty much all that I
wanted to say about it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Sony VIO
and I'm going to cheat here uh e33 FD
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unboxings and pretty much whatever else
I feel like uploading to my channel as with most new notebooks I
should probably yeah one more thing guys sorry as with most new notebooks one of
the first things you pretty much have to do is go through an install a bunch of
stuff so the first thing that popped up when we got to the desktop was a battery
health status meter which is kind of useful actually and then I just want to
show you guys exactly what comes pre-installed so I'll probably remove
acuweather uh I'll remove arsoft
whatever those things are I'll remove Evernote anything I don't recognize I
pretty much remove Google Chrome though that's a good thing to have installed by
default I don't mind that at all bunch of Intel stuff Java this is all okay
Office 2010 trial nice to see that comes
on it gives you at least something to use while you decide what route you want
to go for Office Norton Internet Security I would probably
remove a lot of this a lot of this stuff
I'd probably remove I mean if I had a p PS3 this would be kind of cool I mean
that's actually that's that's neat and then what else do we have here so we've
got a bunch more Vios software viare Vio control center I'd probably nuke all of
that although uh before I do I'll check and see if they're actually useful
things that she'll use and then I'll make a judgement call from there so thank you for checking out the video I'm
actually done now sorry guys