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eye-catching design, but you'll stop caring as soon as
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look even better on the inside, starting with the 13.3-inch display that uses Sony's XBrite technology. There is a bit of a glare when you're working in Word or checking e-mail, but that's more
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1.7-GHz Pentium M inside the S360, along with the 512MB of RAM and sluggish but huge 80GB hard drive. Applications popped up in a second, and the notebook plowed through most productivity chores, garnering
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and two slightly raised silver mouse buttons that we wish were slightly larger.
You could try to find a thin-and-light notebook that delivers as much multimedia performance and good looks as the Sony VAIO VGN-S360, but you'd fail miserably. Weighing a mere 4.2 pounds, this elegant black and silver system boasts a bright 13.3-inch widescreen, powerful ATI graphics, and very good battery life. At $1,799, you pay a bit of a premium for Sony's Cheap Laptops
eye-catching design, but you'll stop caring as soon as
you unpack this little beauty from the box. With its matte black finish and shiny VAIO logo on the outside, the sturdy S360 makes almost as good an impression closed as it does open. We noticed the lid picked up smudges pretty quickly, however, so it might have been wise for Sony to include a polishing cloth. Things Cheap Laptops
look even better on the inside, starting with the 13.3-inch display that uses Sony's XBrite technology. There is a bit of a glare when you're working in Word or checking e-mail, but that's more
than made up for with great contrast and rich colors during DVD playback and while playing games. That's right, games. Unlike most other systems in this weight class, Sony somehow shoehorned ATI's Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics chipset into this system. The result is surprisingly fluid gameplay during a marathon session of Half-Life 2. At a resolution of 800 x 600, the S360 sprinted along at a very respectable 46 Cheap Laptops
frames per second, compared to 10 fps or less for notebooks with integrated graphics. 3DMark backed up our hands-on impression with a very good
score of 8,105. When it's time to get some work done, you'll appreciate the fast but efficient Cheap Laptops
1.7-GHz Pentium M inside the S360, along with the 512MB of RAM and sluggish but huge 80GB hard drive. Applications popped up in a second, and the notebook plowed through most productivity chores, garnering
a slightly better than average MobileMark score of 184. One of the reasons we're a fan of the S series is that it's one of the few sub-five-pound notebooks to sport a full-sized keyboard. It also features a short but wide trackpad Cheap Laptops
and two slightly raised silver mouse buttons that we wish were slightly larger.
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