Gadgetory

hi I'm Scott Stein and it's Ultrabook season that's right intel has announced its latest third-generation core iSeries processors and lo and behold lots of manufacturers are trotting out their latest ultrabooks in fact a lotta manufacturers that hadn't made ultrabooks before are introducing them now such as Sony who is debuted the VAIO T now does this look familiar it should in fact it looks a bit like a vo S or of ioz this has been around for a while this is last year's Sony Vaio Z and it's their top-of-the-line super lightweight super fast laptop and quite expensive too now the VAIO t steals a lot of that design and is nearly the same size but it costs a lot less this is $7.99 what you're getting though is that lower voltage core i5 processor now it is a third generation so it's a little bit of bump up in terms of speed a little better at multitasking and it's got better integrated graphics than last year what's also interesting about these new ultra books is that instead of an SSD storage which is fast but limited in capacity you're getting a 500 gigabyte hybrid hard drive here now what that means is you're getting 32 gigabyte SSD in addition to the 500 gigabyte hard drive which provides some faster speeds and access but it also means more storage and the funny thing is right now a lot of laptops are offering that 500 gigabyte hard drive for less money more storage less money maybe slightly faster speeds but it seems like a pretty good compromise right now and it helps this laptop get in at $7.99 now $7.99 is not cheap for a laptop but it's pretty cheap for a Sony Vaio which usually tend to cap the top of the market it's also the entry price last year for the Sony Vaio s now here's where it gets a bit tricky because Sony makes thin laptops and now some companies have never made a really thin laptop and an ultrabook is their chance to show off now in this instance this is pretty similar in size to an S as well and the ass has got an optical drive DVD drive and sometimes it's got integrated and dedicated graphics and ok it's getting pretty confusing now right that's the whole thing this line is getting a little bit confusing what you're getting here is no optical drive you're getting that core i5 the 500 gigabyte hard drive integrated graphics and it's pretty portable three point four pounds thicker than a MacBook Air but about the same size and it's a pretty nice system good battery life but this keyboard is really shallow I mean really shallow it almost looks like it's been painted on and it's not backlit now that's sort of the same as the VAIO zzz keyboard so if you've seen that before you've seen it here now and the trackpad however is a lot bigger on the T so that's nice I'm Scott Stein and that's a look at Sony's new Ultrabook