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Sony Viao FS-790: A Review

Posted in Computers & Technology, Deals & Savings, Science by Elliott Back on October 29th, 2005.

I recently bought a Sony FS-790 with the following specs:

  1. 2.0 GHz P-M
  2. 1.5GB RAM
  3. NVIDIA 6400Go
  4. 120GB Hard Drive
  5. DVD R/W
  6. 15″ Widescreen
  7. Built in 802.11g

The system is great. The display is super brite, the battery lasts 4 to 4.5 hours, depending on what kind of use (word processing v.s. watching movies), and the graphics card is fairly powerful. The form factor is great, too. It’s large, but very slim and light. Here’s a photograph of it next to my old Dell Inspiron 8200, which it really puts to shame:

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One thing, however, which is somewhat deceptive is that you don’t get your entire 120 GB hard disk to yourself. Sony steals away 6 GB for a restore partition:

Sony Hard Drive

So, unless you want to screw around with your hard drive partitions, you’re really getting around 110GB. Here are the 3DMark results, for those are interested:

3DMark Score			2977	3DMarks
GT1 - Wings of Fury		113.1	FPS
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon	16.9	FPS
GT3 - Troll's Lair		15.7	FPS
GT4 - Mother Nature		20.4	FPS

CPU Score			753	CPUMarks
CPU Test 1			90.5	FPS
CPU Test 2			12.3	FPS

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing)	693.0	MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing)	1331.7	MTexels/s

Vertex Shader			12.8	FPS
Pixel Shader 2.0		42.8	FPS
Ragtroll			10.5	FPS
No sounds			45.1	FPS
24 sounds			39.1	FPS
60 sounds			0.0	FPS

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 29th, 2005 at 8:48 am and is tagged with dell inspiron 8200, sony viao, vertex shader, wings of fury, cpu test, cpu score, dell inspiron, drive partitions, fps, graphics card, word processing, test 1, lair, mother nature, partition, hard disk, hard drive, nvidia, photograph, sony. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback.

4 Responses to “Sony Viao FS-790: A Review”

  1. mandeep5551 says:

    i want to purchase viao sony laptop for my personal and business use , kindly send me its cost and features

  2. jones smith says:

    i will like to how you are the selling this laptops

  3. costco says:

    Gabe yur awesome dude

  4. Jesse says:

    Vaios are one beautiful looking brand of computers

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