Sony Vaio VGN-SZ2XP Review

Sony may be suffering in many areas, but judging by the VGN-SZ2XP it hasn’t lost the art of creating highly desirable notebooks.

The SZ series isn’t Sony’s smallest line of notebooks, that honour being taken by remarkably dinky TX line, which also offers the greatest battery life. However, the TX line can only manage a single core chip while the slightly larger form factor of the SZ enables Sony to pack in dual-core power. You also get a larger 13.3in screen though admittedly the resolution is actually slightly lower at 1,280 x 800, rather than 1,366 x 768.

The other benefit of the larger size means that you don’t have to pay the premium that extreme miniaturisation provides - this SZ2XP comes in at just over £1,400, while the weight is 1.7Kg, still in ultra-portable territory. All in all this it seems like a win-win situation, so I was hopeful that a closer inspection wouldn’t change my mind.

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