Sony VAIO G: journey into the secrets of the last constructive ultraportable Sony
In this article we will discover the secrets of building what, in many ways, is the most advanced laptop in the market, soon available for purchase for customers in the version with 64GB SSD drive, Sony VAIO VGN-G21VN.
We start: Before its designers set to work, Sony has conducted market research on a very large sample of business executives and professionals, to try to identify what exactly the needs of a businessman. It was discovered that looks stylish and cool, that has always characterized the VAIO notebook, exerts a strong appeal on this category of potential buyers. There is, however, a reverse of the coin for the same reason why Sony laptops are beautiful, they tend to consider them too fragile and not suitable for professional use.
From here a new challenge: to produce a laptop that was both good looking and sturdy and reliable.
Identified the target, the Japanese multinational has put together a team of engineers from its more experienced and competent in Mobile. Their first task was' s analysis of what could be potential causes of damage or breakage of a laptop in an environment like an office. Simple: the first factor of failure is represented by accidental falls, followed by pressure and vibration (think, for example, the stresses that receives the closed notebook in a bag during a trip).
The primary objective of the projects was, therefore, to protect the screen and hard drive, the components considered most at risk in a laptop. It is accompanied by what has always been the Holy Grail of every designer laptop: minimize the weight. This time, however, the task was even more burdensome, because the managers interviewed for the survey, had expressed the need for a laptop that weighs 1 Kg
The latest request from the floor of the respondents had been to a long battery life: the problem was solved by using, as discussed, innovative technologies that could achieve 11.5 hours of battery life on a single charge.
