Sony VAIO T6500 Widescreen Laptop Computer. A Review
Model # VGN-NW150J/S
One of the electronic purchases I have recently made was for the Sony VAIO T6500 Widescreen laptop computer. My wife is wedded to the Sony VAIO and for good reason. Her old Sony VAIO is about 7 years old. If I am not sadly mistaken it is a Pentium 2 or 3 with 128 K Ram and about an 80 gig hard drive.
The new Sony VAIO is the replacement and we will be lucky indeed for it to last half as long and provide the quality service my wife has gotten form the old original VAIO.
The new Sony VAIO is the T6500 Widescreen. Hers is silver with a non-slick surface. It DOES NOT show fingerprints and the less slick surface gives a more positive feel in the hands of a user. As well it sits more positively on her little lapdesk, and as we all know, if the lapdesk is not parallel, or roughly so with the surface of the Earth the doggone thing wants to slide - even on the non-skid surface of her lapdesk.
The T6500 came with a 15.5 inch widescreen display. It is perfect for watching movies and I guess the blu-ray player, CD and DVD read write component will utilize the widescreen to its capacity. Why with a new 55 inch hi-def VIZIO TV she wants to watch movies on a 15 inch screen is anyone's guess, but hey, I am just the husband!
Maybe it's the 15.5 inch WXGA LCD widescreen display with "XBRITE-ECO technology and 1366 x 768 resolution brings your movies and games to life." Whatever, my little woofie loves this thing! And the display is bright, sharp and clear.
The Sony VAIO Widescreen T6500 is powered by an Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo mobile processor T6500. The computer came loaded with 4 gigabytes of DDR2 RAM. As for speed, in terms of real time that we Humans live in, this sucker is fast man, fast! Not like my monster ASUS gaming rig, but Hell, for what she does, word processing, Internet research, spreadsheets and presentations with Power Point, this is just the ticket.
The Sony VAIO T6500 is light weight for what it does - within reason, of course. The T6500 weighs in at 6.4lbs. Sure, you can drop a fortune for a Apple super light weight laptop, but why? Unless just saying "I have the lightest and thinnest laptop in existence," what's the big deal? $2000.00 so I can say it's the lightest ever does not do a whole lot for me, except of course make me spend more then double for LESS computing power just for bragging rights!
The T6500 comes with a 320 gigabyte hard drive running at 5400 RPM. Unless one wants to store tons of movies on their 'puter, 320 gigs is plenty. Of course the Sony VAIO Widescreen comes with Ethernet, wireless network ready and a webcam. There are 3 USB ports, 1 PCMCIA slot and 1 Firewire Port, and 1 HDMI output for connecting to hi-def TV's and such
The T6500 came with Windows Vista Home Premium and the Windows 7 upgrade for free when it comes out for general distribution. As well the VAIO came with MS Works and the usual preinstalled goodies.
For power the 6 cell lithium ion battery provides at least 5.5 hours of stand alone power. And the VAIO T6500 widescreen is ENERGY STAR qualified, so this is the deal.
In the end the beautiful useful tool on my cute little missus' lap set me back $829.00 USD, NOT counting the additional warranty.
As usual, before this purchase I did hours of research. I read hundred of consumer reviews and almost to a person, the reviewers loved the Sony VAIO T6500 Widescreen laptop.
Add in one year parts and labor warranty plus the 3 year extended warranty form Best Buy and she is good to go. The next computer upgrade will be new power supply and an ADDITIONAL video card so I can go SLI for my ASUS gaming monster - priorities people!
SOURCES: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9370129&type=product&id=1218093002019
AUTHOR'S NOTE: For some reason the Best Buy page describes the computer as having a 250 gig hard drive in one description and a 320 gig in all other descriptions. I can assure the reader the one I bought is the one in the add and it DOES INDEED have a 320 gig hard drive, so tighten up Best Buy.
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4 Comments
Post a CommentWow... look at all those numbers and letters. How does a person remember them to ask for it? You do great reviews, btw.
I still haven't ever owned a laptop yet, so these reviews on AC are helping me in my research with the limited time I have at my disposal. The Sony T6500 sounds like an awesome buy (and has 4x the internal hard drive capacity and 2x the ram of my desktop), and is definitely on the top of my list when things finally turn around for us.
In my vast experience in this field, I can say that one contemplating the purchase of this product would have all the information one would need for this, uh, thingy. Good review!
Great review!!