Sony Vaio Duo 11

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Design

31.7 x 19.8 x 1.9 cm size (width x length x thickness). The 11-inch screen is surrounded by a black border layer shiny but fortunately, the edge machine not too fingerprints.

When you look closely at the lower edge of the machine, you can see two small volume buttons, side lock buttons like rotate, and one quick button help to quickly open applications user support that Sony built into the machine. The downside of this button is very hard to press.

We have 2 USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI port, and a power button on the right side of the machine. Rear edge with one socket for the power button and port network. The left machines are arranged VGA port, headphone, SD card slot, and Memory Stick Duo slot. Unfortunately, the devices are not equipped with a place to plug a computer stylus.

In terms of size and weight, Duo 11 par with the ultrabook 13 inches. Weighs 1.27 kg machine, the Toshiba Portege Z935 lighter 181 grams, ASUS Zenbook Prime UX31A lighter HP Envy Spectre XT 90 ram.

Keyboard

The keyboard crammed into one compact device, as Duo 11, also means that manufacturers have to sacrifice many points in this department. The keys on the keyboard, although the gap is quite large but the key themselves are very small, the horizontal size of the keys on netbooks. Right Shift key and other keys are designed smaller, so the risk of mistyped keys when typing occurs frequently. Plus point of the keyboard is that it is equipped with a backlight.

Duo 11 has no touchpad; instead, Sony equips one navigation button (point stick). In essence, it is an optical button sensor. Although the ability to navigate accurately, it looks like it has high sensitivity causes the cursor to jump in panic when a user accidentally touches it. You will often feel inhibition when you are typing; the cursor is moved to another location, makes your work uninterrupted. Hopefully, Sony can fix this via one update for this department.

Screen

Duo 11.6-inch screen of 11 ultra-high-resolution, up to 1920 x 1080 pixels. With this resolution, everything from the colors, the brightness of the screen very impressive. Try watching the movie trailer for “The Lone Ranger,” a white and black facial Tonto character for excellent contrast. IPS panel screen also helps Duo 11 has a wide viewing angle, makes observed under high light conditions is very good. Sony VAIO Duo 11 screens were 402 lux brightness, almost double the average brightness of 223 lux ultraportable line; only ASUS Zenbook Prime’s screen is brighter UX31A laptop/tablet from Sony with 423 lux.

Sound

Two speakers mounted below the front corner of the machine for sound, although not too large, but precise. When trying to stream the song “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen by Slacker app, the singer’s voice was quite deep. Although not loud enough to be heard in the room, the factory speakers can fully meet with one small group of people.

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Touch pen

Battery inside AAAA. 2 buttons on the pen to help users perform auxiliary functions as the first choice delete 1 paragraph or brushstrokes. Slightly surprised that Sony does not allocate any slot on the machine to attach to the pen when not in use, so if you are not careful, the user can easily mislay it.

Application Note Anytime that Sony is equipped to use your stylus and also quite handy, allowing identify the user’s handwriting. A small circle of circular icons enables you to change the type of pen. You also have the option of colors; custom sizes.

Heat capacity

After the first stream of Hulu videos in full screen for 15 minutes, the temperature measured at the mouse button Duo 11 is 25 degrees C. The middle and lower machine temperatures of 29 and 27.7 degrees C. the hottest spot of the machine in the bottom right corner to 35 degrees C.

Webcam and Rear Camera

Above the display of a 2.4 MP, an integrated webcam can record video with a maximum resolution of 1080p. Video recorded with webcam for the colors is quite accurate, although quite noisy. You put it on the table to use, the camera will not be able to display your entire face is, so if you want to use it for video chats, you have to put it in another position as to lap.

It also comes with a rear camera that has a resolution of 2 MP. Although it seems not many uses one device to capture images as Duo 11, tests showed the camera for shutter speed is quite fast, less than 1 second after pressing the shutter button. Color photos also look beautiful and acceptable.

Efficiency

Duo 11 is equipped with an Intel Core i5-3317U chip speed of 1.7 GHz, 6GB RAM, SSD 128GB from Toshiba. Experiment with PCMark 7 Duo 11 scores 4683, higher than the average of 1600 ultraportable laptops, but less than one opponent has the same configuration as the Toshiba Portege Z935 (5486 points).
Duo 11 launch Windows 8 took just 13 seconds, even faster Z935 (20 seconds). However, the machine back to Windows 7. Toshiba SSD for data copy speed of up to 145.4 MB / sec is less than Z935 (164.2 MB / sec) and the HP Envy Spectre XT (150 MB / sec).

In the common tasks with Windows 8, the touch screen and stylus Duo 11 will work well. The multi-touch actions such as pinch-zoom finger, gesture control actions are Windows 8 supports all worked smoothly. However, when turning the machine, you will have to take about 2 seconds for the screen can rotate. Another annoying thing is that the screen does not automatically rotate; the keyboard makes much when witnessing one screen upside down.

Graphics performance

Integrated graphics chip Intel Graphics 4000 Duo 11 for the score of 615 in 3DMark11 benchmark, less than 200 points compared to the average of ultraportable line and the graphical ultrabook. You can play games on the computer, but the course is not set at full HD resolution. Frame rate when trying to play “World of Warcraft” to 31 fps (fixed auto effects, resolution 1366 x 768). When increasing the resolution to 1080p, the frame rate dropped to 24 fps.

Battery life

4960 mAh battery is equipped, through continuous tests via WiFi, Duo 11 for 5 hours 8 minutes battery life, less than 1-hour pin ultraportable line (6 hours 20 minutes).