White Christmas? "I would say so - for all those who received a Christmas office portable Sony Vaio VGN-N11M. The first Sony portable white Dualcore must demonstrate its technical qualities in this review.

Homes

As they say tastes are tastes. The Sony Vaio VGN-N11M has been criticized quite often for us. We can summarize with the phrase: "It looks like a toy"

Let the facts. The portable silver with white cover is decorated in any way. The materials do not appear to be of high quality. As in typical Sony laptop, the battery does play into the case. The major flaw lies in the crunch. Taking your laptop and / or lobbying here just by opening and closing the screen all the fund crunch. This is certainly not a positive image even if the materials used are rather strict.

The laptop does not shine even in terms of number of ports. Only 2 USB ports these days are few. As if that were not enough there is no TV output only analog video output. This could be accepted for lower-class notebook for this class but this inevitably leads to a negative note.
Most ports are on the disturbing for right-handed when using an external mouse.

Front with a cardreader

Rear-Modem and LAN

Left side - DVD burner

Right side - headphone, microphone, 2x USB 2.0, Express Card 34cm, opening for the fan, display, Firewire 400

Input Devices

The keyboard features are similar to the Sony Vaio FE31B and Sony Vaio C-1. Briefly, comfortable key size, good layout and easy to use. The keyboard is attached to the case very closely and there are virtually no inflections.

Even the touch pad convinces us through a good response and fingers slide easily on the surface.

Touchpad

Tastatur

Display

Color Diagram

The bright X-black 15.4 inch convinces us through an excellent brightness of up to 187 cd / m². Therefore, it is hardly disturbed by phenomena of reflection. We revealed a lighting 's 83% (good value in the media), however the upper right corner is darker. The brightness of the black has a value of 1.0 cd / m² and a contrast of 187:1 acceptable.

The angle is not exactly good either vertically or horizontally. Even if you move across the contrast remains in the media.
160.0
cd / m² 173.3
cd / m² 155.4
cd / m²
170.0
cd / m² 187.0
cd / m² 157.7
cd / m²
176.6
cd / m² 166.6
cd / m² 170.0
cd / m²

Informations
Maximum:
187.0 cd / m²
Average:
168.5 cd / m²

Brightness

Performance

Performance is good for an office notebook components thanks to Intel (Core Duo, Intel chip with integrated graphics). However, 512 MB RAM (standard solution) seems a bit short for today's applications (eg. Video editing) - keeping in mind that the graphics card uses dynamically from 8 to 128 MB of these 512 MB.

It can not be used for play, the performance is poor thanks to the integrated graphics GMA 950.
If you are going to play well to sun oriented towards another handset.

3D Mark06
100 points

WAS run 3DMark06 at 1024x768, the details are as FOLLOWS:
SM 2.0: 46 points
SM 3.0: N / A
CPU: 1267 points
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PCMark05
2408 points

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The strengths of the laptop are as other Sony notebooks in the same category, noise and temperatures.
The fan is activated frequently, therefore, the Sony Vaio FE-N11M is almost always "comfortable" with a 30.9dB. Even if the fan was working for a long period noise is still acceptable (36-37 dB).

If the fan starts up you rarely find apsetterebbe high temperatures but the Sony Vaio FE-N11M is a pleasant surprise: the temperature was always around 30 ° C throughout the test.

Temperatures on the top

Ball of hand max.: 29 celsius

Top max.: 30 celsius

Average: 29 Celsius

Hotspot:

Temperatures on the bottom

Bottom max.: 32 celsius

Average: 30 Celsius

Hotspot:

Room Temperature: 22.0 Celsius

Battery longevity

Sorry we could not accurately measure the battery life for lack of time. Sony says a maximum of 225 minutes. Five minutes more than the Sony Vaio FE31B we reviewed. We can assume that the total duration hovers around 1.5 to 3 hours. Surely not record values. It 's the price you pay for a screen so bright.

Conclusions

If we consider the design, the customer is holding an office notebook quiet, not too warm and with good input devices. The points are feeble: the cracking of the case and the limited number of connection ports (two USB and no TV out). Performance for normal applications (office, surfing the internet) that do not require too many resources are sufficient, but 512 MB RAM, further reduced by the video card, slow down.

Sony Vaio VGN-N11M

Thanks to Alime Öztürk who gave this notebook for review.