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Sony VAIO Y Series (VPC-Y11M1E/S) - 13.3in Laptop video review

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Anyone who wants an affordable and portable laptop should look into the Sony VAIO Y11M1E/S. It's attractive, good to use, excellent value and offers incredible battery life, which just goes to prove Sony can make portable laptops for any budget. Read full review

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Ardjuna Seghers

By Ardjuna Seghers
Reviewed 30 April 2010
Updated 26 May 2011

Price as reviewed

£649.99

  • Review
    • 1: Introduction, Specs & Design
    • 2: Keyboard, Touchpad & Audio-Visual
    • 3: Performance, Battery Life & Verdict
    • 4: PCMark Vantage: Full Results
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  • Reviewed by Ardjuna Seghers
  • 30 April 2010
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Sony VAIO Y Series (VPC-Y11M1E/S) - 13.3in Laptop details

Performance
8/10
Value
9/10
Features
7/10
Design
8/10
Battery Life
10/10
Overall
9/10

Price as reviewed

£649.99

Manufacturer

Sony

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3:28 PM on 30 April, 2010

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Just being ignorant, but when is multitouch useful?

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4:07 PM on 30 April, 2010

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Not sure if it applies with WIN7, but with OSX using two fingers to scroll websites etc is essential.

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4:25 PM on 30 April, 2010

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@HK:Just being ignorant, but when is multitouch useful?





It's one of those features you have to use to really appreciate it. As an example, when scrolling web documents use 2 fingers to push up & down, works really natural when your used to it. Pinch Zoom is another classic example. There are other example too. From a productivity point of view it means you can do more thing without having to move away from the touchpad.

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Mik3yB

5:19 PM on 30 April, 2010

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Is the keyboard damaged in the top left corner? You can see it bow inwards.


Is it a build quality issue or just heavy handed testing? :D

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6:22 PM on 30 April, 2010

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What Keith said.

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6:27 PM on 30 April, 2010

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Wow, I just zoomed in and out with my mouse (I've a Sony E series with Windows 7). Nah sorry, wasn't too exciting. I suppose it's nice to have, but it hardly seems that essential. As for the scrolling thing, not sure I understand how you need two fingers for that, swipe up, swipe down, why two fingers? (Not giving two fingers to Mac users tempted as I am sometimes :-P)





I can see how it'd be more useful on an iPhone/iPad where it's a touchscreen device, seems a bit unnecessary for a mouse though.

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6:46 PM on 30 April, 2010

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on OSX you can do some pretty amazing stuff using multi-touch using Better Touch Tool.





http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=1619





e.g. on a browser you can can switch, close, open, reopen tabs, zoom, scroll, reload, open the sidebar, history bar, middle click links, switch to fullscreen, copy and delete, all by assigning keyboard shortcuts to gestures and corners of the trackpad...

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@Was





Awesome - I'll check that out. I'm still annoyed that Safari still hasn't integrated the three finger top-bottom page gesture that Firefox has. Really handy.

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@HK: As for the scrolling thing, not sure I understand how you need two fingers for that, swipe up, swipe down, why two fingers?





Well if you use 1 finger it would be interpreted as a mouse move, not a mouse scroll. I used to have an old Sony Viao were the right hand side of the touchpad acted like a scrollbar, but it wasn't anyway as nice as just having to use 2 fingers anywhere on the touchpad. I must admit the pinch/zoom is something I don't really use that much on the Laptop and is more useful on the Iphone. But the 2 finger scrolling would be something I would miss. It's also not just limited to 1 or 2 fingers, on the Mac 4 fingers does something called Expose and 3 fingers back/fwd on web pages etc...

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9:56 AM on 1 May, 2010

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Indeed, the top left frame of the keyboard appears to be severely damaged!

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