Red Sonja

Sony has recently been in the news for charging extra for removing the

crapware it installs on the laptops before selling it. The bad press does not

seem to have affected Sony at all, as it continues to launch one Vaio after

another. And we were quite hoping that the machines may have had a performance

boost as well, to get back in the good books of those who were annoyed by Sony's

crapware saga. The CW15FN definitely is a step in that direction as it offers

the perfect blend of portability, looks and even performance. And it is some

performance.

 Let us inform you about the configuration first- Intel's Core2 Duo

processor T6600 clocking at 2.20GHz, paired with 3GB RAM and a 320GB hard drive.

The display is a 14 inch HD Ready display with LED backlighting. The performance

offered by the Vaio is much better than expected. The PC Mark score of 5220 is

brilliant, by any stretch of the imagination. The pre installed Windows7 Home

Premium 64-bit will work, and even multi-task with absolutely no slowdowns,

system freeze or 'out of memory' errors.

We talked about the HD Ready screen. The screen display is managed by the

more than efficient nVidia GeForce G210M graphics card with 256MB GDDR3 video

memory. The 3D Mark score of 5827 is exceptional, and will put a lot of 'gaming'

notebooks and desktops to shame.

Apart from this, there is the usual gamut of features- WiFi, Bluetooth, 3 USB

ports, HDMI, memory card and stick slot and a whole lot of trial software.

Overall, at about Rs 48k, Sony has a winner on its hands with this kind of

performance.

Vishal Mathur