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hey I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here to take a look at Sony Vaio and f-series this is a 16 point 4 inch laptop that's kind of the higher end of what we call the midsize laptop so their laptops with 14 inch or more commonly 15 inch and very rarely 16 inch screens although the way that Sony built this particular system it's pretty big even for a 16 inch machine so I can't really imagine putting this in your bag and carrying it around more than ever you know great once in a while we're maybe something like a 15-inch MacBook Pro or HP Envy 15 you know other kind of full-featured midsize laptops you could carry around you know a few days a week you really wouldn't want to do it every day but this guy probably it's probably gonna stay you know anchored to your desk and that's why it's a good multimedia and even gaming machine it's got a full 1080p display it's got a blu-ray drive it's got decent Nvidia graphics and of course it's got that great Sony keyboard it's a back with keyboard and you may not be able to tell under these big light it's actually one of the brightest back lights they've ever seen on a keyboard the touchpad itself is down here just kind of a layer of textured dots over this raised wrist rest it's not the biggest touchpad we've ever seen especially in a laptop this size but it works fairly well I'm not a big fan of the button bar below it I like to separate left and right mouse buttons so of course Sony is well known for charging a bit of a premium for its vaio brand prep next to Apple they're the only company you really think of as kind of a reach brand so this via f-series starts at about 1050 our particular build out here with an Intel Core i7 CPU is about $1,400 of course if you drop out some of the options you can bring that price down but that puts you in about the same category as some of those high-end 15-inch full-featured laptops like the envy 15 of like Dells XPS 15z but still a lot less expensive than a comparable 15-inch MacBook Pro I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Sony Vaio Cup Series