Everything about the Sony Vaio NW240F is quite pleasing. For starters, it looks good and in contrast to its shiny plastic shelfmates, the structured chassis does not feel cheap or at the end of fall in finger prints of just picking it up. It is good for general household and office tasks and the port range is configured more than fundamentals. Some might view it as something expensive, what you get – similar configurations can be found less – but the Sony is not what we would consider, overpriced. In the end, the only NW240F a respectable mainstream notebook with a look and feel of much of its competition, which is worth a few dollars extra to us.
The Vaio NW240F we tested has a textured plastic shell with wenge wood patterns and walnut brown color, the texture is both on the lid and inside on the keyboard tray. The pattern gives it a strange but not unpleasant feeling, and certainly helps attract attention. How does the giant Vaio branding on the lid. I learned even more important, is the keyboard chiclet the same flat Sony keyboard-style we know and love. The keys are good with good Travel offers a comfortable typing experience gap. The touchpad is comfortable, it’s plenty big and has a light texture, which apparently helps to move your fingers smoothly.
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Though the Vaio NW240F’s keyboard tray leaves much room for media control buttons, you will not find any except for a mute button and another for the shutdown of the display. The AV Mode button, which is we have found in previous models of Vaio now a web button that starts a Splashtop browser as soon as possible to access websites without booting into Windows. The Display Off button comes in handy, because if you connect to an external display via the VGA or HDMI outputs, and if you’re doing some late night downloading and do not want the screen to disturb your sleep. reprogram the mute button, may, by the way, do other things such as launch an application or immediately to maximize the brightness of the screen.
The 15.4-inch widescreen LCD offers a 1366 x 768 pixel native resolution, which is standard for a screen this size. We found the display is crisp and vivid, movies and photos to show lifelike color, sharp edges and smooth motion. In anecdotal testing, we are less bright than other laptops were found, but at max brightness, the picture looked under a variety of conditions in order. It has a glossy screen coating, but it was not as prone to glare and reflections as other glossy screens we’ve seen. And it offers a fairly wide viewing angle. Above the screen is a webcam and microphone maintained, carried out in our informal tests Skype.
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A laptop built-in stereo speakers will never fill a room to a pleasing degree, but the Vaio NW240F’s get loud respectable. However, they are lacking in bass and sound tinny at max volume.
The ports and connections for the selection NW240F above average in its class. The ExpressCard slot is highly valued, and although it is a rarity on new devices these days, it’s nice that there is a FireWire port. About the only thing we want, was present integrated Bluetooth for connecting a mouse or headset.
The NW240F is a fixed configuration to what you see is what you get. The memory can easily be extended up to 8 GB of purchase, though. Other NW-series models are not available, including a $ 929.99 model direct from Sony with Blu-ray playback. At this price point that Sony’s 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 is common, since the 4 GB of RAM and 320 GB hard drive. The component combination competed very well against similarly configured laptops on CNET Labs’ Multitasking, image processing and audio encoding tests. Handling basic office work, photo editing, Web browsing and operation of e-mail and IM clients, which turned all at once not be a problem for this laptop. That’s not to say that we can not overwhelm the system (which we would not try anything more than casual gaming, for example), but it should have no problem keeping with most essential home and office use.
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The Vaio battery life was less impressive. The Vaio NW240FT ran for 3 hours, 36 minutes on CNET Labs’ battery discharge test, using the included six-cell battery. That’s not terrible, but consider, and, as our demanding video playback drain test, with Some Power Management, you can expect to use a little more life out of random web browsing and office.
