Is VAIO BETTER without Sony?? - Vaio SX12 Laptop
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2020-05-05
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2,087 words · ~10 min read
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- So this is about Max moving around. - [Man] Can you undo that top button?
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- Undo like this one? No, we're not doing that. - That's...
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All right, that's fine- - Undo the top button, yes.
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- That's way better. - Looking for better audio. This right here is the Sony...
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This right here is the not Sony VAIO SX12.
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So you're probably thinking where has VAIO been for the past,
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I don't know, since I think it was 2014 when they stopped existing, kind of.
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Well, they've been slowly, you know, making their own laptops.
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Apparently when they broke up, they wanted to get away from like general consumer stuff
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and into more like bleeding edge high-end stuff.
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So here we have it, the VAIO SX12,
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what is apparently the thinnest laptop in the world
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that has a six core processor. I'm not totally sure why that's
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a necessary thing to know but, you know, let's see how it goes.
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So the box I would say it looks really great. Very, I don't know.
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It's black. It says VAIO on it. There we go.
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And it's in a little bag. I actually quite like this box,
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but let's see how the laptop... Oh, cool.
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So it's just, you know, a nice matte black little laptop.
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There isn't a whole lot about the outside besides... Holy crap.
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Those are a lot of ports. So I was looking at originally,
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I thought like, did they just copy the design from 2014?
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And like, that's why it has so many ports, like freaking VGA right here.
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But it turns out no. Even like when they stopped producing VAIO laptops,
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they didn't have anywhere near this many ports. Like it was just, I think there was a HDMI
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and two USBs here. Whereas now we have VGA, Ethernet, HDMI.
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That has a Thunderbolt sign. Yes. So we have Thunderbolt and then USB-A
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and SD card full-size. On the other side we have,
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wow, another two USB Type-As, a headphone port and that's about it, power in.
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So we have a power cord, kind of an old school style one
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where they have, you know, the barrel connector. It doesn't appear to have USB-C type charging.
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Thank you for purchasing our new VAIO PC. Well I didn't purchase it.
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But, you know? The VAIO PC now in your hands has successfully completed
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the Azumino Finish. All essential elements focusing on inspira...
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What else we got here? Startup guide. We can probably figure that ourself. All right, well, I guess we just get
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right into the laptop here. Hopefully it has power.
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And here we go. Over the keyboard they have what feels like a microfiber cloth.
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It's actually quite nice. So it does have the cool kind of hinge
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you see it on some ASUS laptops these days or I think that old VAIO ones did as well,
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where it's flat on the table,
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but then as you lift it up, it creates a small gap between the table
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and you know, the bottom of the laptop. This will be good for two things. So for one,
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it'll be much nicer for your hands where, you know, you'd have the slight inclination
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while you're typing, which should make typing for long periods of time a little bit easier.
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And also, you know, it has a six core processor in it.
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So it's gonna need lots of air getting in there and just shoot it out and, you know, heat everything up
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besides hopefully the processor itself. Looks like that we also have Windows Hello right up there.
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And I think there's a fingerprint. Yeah, there's a fingerprint reader right here.
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So, getting into it should be pretty simple. Oh, oof!
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This trackpad, look at that. This right here has to be the smallest trackpad
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I've seen in nearly a decade I would say.
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This is frigging tiny. This laptop is nearly $1,900
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and, yep, it is really light. But I don't know, it's quite plasticky
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kind of around here for what you would expect from something that's $1,900.
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Here We have the last gen XPS 13. So these right here are identically specced machines.
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Although the Dell comes in at $50 less and has a 4K touchscreen
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as opposed to, I believe it's a 1080p. Yeah.
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No touching at all here. As far as the actual screen quality goes,
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unsurprisingly the 4K display on the Dell
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is just sharper and generally better.
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But I don't care about that too too much like the 4Kness of it,
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because like, you know, 1080p on a 13 inch display,
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I need to get what? Here before I can start seeing pixels at all.
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And I'm not using this computer that close. You'd probably be looking more at using it
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like right around here somewhere. I want to say nice things about this computer
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'cause overall, like, I don't think it's all that bad
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from what I've been using besides this trackpad.
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It's abominable. Every time that I go to do something
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it's just so terrible. And you can't even be like, oh, it's fine
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because you know, you can use the touchscreen. But there is no touchscreen option.
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You just have to use this. Come on guys.
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So for one thing, there's no like press to click. That isn't necessarily a deal breaker,
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but you just kind of expect it these days. It has these super duper small little right click,
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left click guys that for one, they just don't feel great.
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Like the snap isn't very great. You can kind of see where I push it,
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there's a lot of mush before you actually get into the click.
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Anyway, back to the keyboard here.
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(keyboard clicking)
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Hmm. It feels kinda bouncy almost,
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not so much the keys but just sort of the whole chassis underneath it.
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It's pretty, not fantastic. You can really feel it
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when you're clicking down any of the keys that the whole deck is flexing,
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which even though these might be good keys, I have no clue. It doesn't really matter
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if you don't have the chassis flex. But, oh, look at that up there.
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Are you able to see? This is just me pressing the keys and the whole deck is flexing.
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So if you compare that to the XPS here, this is as hard as I can push.
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You do see some flex and it's, there's barely anything
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'cause you know, this thing is made of carbon fiber and magnesium. Whereas this right here,
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bit on the plasticky side for sure. 1900 bucks
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and you have that. We haven't gotten to the fun bit yet though.
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So, it does have that six core processor.
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Let's see how it does with a little Blender render.
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F12. I wouldn't expect it to be able to do
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anywhere near max turbo the whole time. Like if I had to guess
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we'll probably be sitting at about 2.6 gigahertz but...
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Oh, it's already at 94 degrees.
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We're down to 2.3 gigahertz. As far as the speed goes,
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ah, it's not great given how long it's been going.
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About this Dell here, just as a little comparison.
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Let's just, it's not the same task. We're not going to really drag race these two.
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I don't have the power brick for this one. But I just want to see how loud it gets
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in comparison. Although this is definitely a bit on the loud side,
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I'd say that, given that it's like six cores and something that's of this size,
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it's really not bad. Like we're not getting like the Razor Blade whine
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or anything. So far the Dell is silent,
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but I don't think that will last very long. Anyway, on the VAIO it seems to have, you know,
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leveled out somewhere around 2.2, 2.3 gigahertz,
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which isn't all that bad. But it's not incredible.
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I think the Dell might be at max speed, but I just can't really tell
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because of how much louder the VAIO is. All right, we're not gonna complete this render
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'cause it's taking half a while. It's able to hold. It's thermal is pretty good.
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Like it has leveled out around 85-87 degrees thereish
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while doing 2.2 gigahertz switches.
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I would say very acceptable for a machine of this size. As for the sound, it's definitely on the higher end.
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Although I wouldn't consider it unacceptable. Like this Dell is so much quieter.
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You can barely hear it. Even though the fan are really giving air.
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Going back to the overall just size of this machine though,
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I can't get over the number of ports.
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Like we have said, I don't know, it doesn't feel amazing.
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But it also doesn't feel bad. Like as far as flex in this direction,
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there's almost none. As far as screen wobble, almost none.
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Like I would consider that very good. The screen flex it's a bit on the flexy side,
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but again, totally acceptable. Like, okay, this is way stiffer.
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But it doesn't really matter. You're not doing this all day.
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This is... Okay, the Dell is way better
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as far as general build quality goes. But it's also a lot heavier.
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Yeah. So let's see what the actual difference is between these two.
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We've got like 850 grams.
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That is frigging light. This one right here is about 1200 or so.
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That's you know, a good what? 400 gram difference.
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You're going to notice that in your backpack. Like I can just, tossing these around
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really feel it in my hands.
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But I don't know. The VAIO might be one of the most disappointing laptops
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I've used in quite a while. It's so light. It has so many ports
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and somehow is really thin. Like is it thinner than the XPS?
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Well, of course it is. They said that... Oh no, it isn't. They said that it was the thinnest six core,
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but looking at, it's not.
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It's really not. But it's really close.
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It's within a couple millimeters. And for the price that they're commanding,
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this right here should be carbon fiber and this needs to be bigger.
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So like my recommendations are like this whole keyboard needs to come up a couple centimeters.
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That will give you more space for your palms to rest and also like the key thing is just
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more space for this trackpad 'cause it is unacceptable.
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And then maybe make the whole top carbon fiber. And that would allow you to, you know,
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not notice that kind of, oh, so much flex.
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What else can we see here? Oh, I wonder how the speakers are? It already sounds a little bit crushed,
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but it's not too too bad. (upbeat music)
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There's no base at all. I wouldn't really expect there to be much of bass in this,
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but you know, it's low enough that I would say it's a bit disappointing.
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"Crab Rave". Let's see what it sounds like on the XPS.
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(upbeat music) There's no comparison.
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So I don't know how to feel about this. Everything that I remember from VAIO was just very high quality
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and this given the price, I don't know it just doesn't really stick the landing.
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It has the ports, it has the size and like the feel and look,
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I have to say is pretty good. But I don't know. The build quality and this trackpad is just inexcusable.
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There's no way that you can use a trackpad like this and not have a touchscreen in 2020.
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Like, I don't know. They just need to go back to the drawing board a bit and figure that one out.
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See ya.