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today we're going to be doing an unboxing of a sony notebook this is a notebook that I picked up for a family member of mine so it is uh gets a Linus's choice seal of approval especially at the price but NCIX had it at on their Black Friday sale where I work so it has an Intel Core i3 370 M 4 gigs of ram a 500 gig drive it is a 14 inch notebook with a DVD rewrite role as well as Windows 7 home premium it is also a notebook in case there was any confusion about that and this will be the reintroduction of my unboxing knife the one that I lost when I was traveling because I left it on my keychain and tried to get on an airplane which was stupid don't do that so I have I finally have my Spyderco knife back went and bought another one and so I have broken the seal and I can put that away let's find out about this notebook has to be perfectly blunt with you guys I don't know much about it I bought it based on one of my co-workers recommendations who said this ones are really good deals on sale this week grab it because you know I know you need a notebook right now and here we go so here we have Sony's summary of the specs so it's the i3 370 M that's a 2.4 gigahertz dual-core processor 14 inch display at 1366 by 768 in terms of graphics we are using the Intel HD graphics which will be just fine for my aunt and we have another seal to break so I'm going to pull out the knife again I want to really have a close look at this notebook for you guys because I want to know what I got myself into here what's the model of this one anyway this is the VAIO EA 33 FD I probably should have mentioned that before so in terms of packaging we've got environmentally-friendly cardboard packaging throughout the entire inside so there's no foam as far as the eye can see and let's have a look at what's in here based on the weight I would say it's probably the battery and it is so we have the battery as well as the adapter very reasonable size adapter not too heavy which is nice if you're ever traveling around with your laptop and Plateau then we have the battery itself which has a bit of a half - oh it's a weird-shaped battery isn't it look at that wonder how many cells it is oh here we go it is a 3,500 milliamp hour battery so runs out eleven point one volt I guess that's all the information we have at the moment let's see what we got in terms of documentation we have a cyber coupon of 2015 Quick Start Guide okay and then we have the notebook itself oh I found some foam that's okay I forgive them so here's the piece that holds the laptop itself it and then we can remove the laptop so it's got a bit of a heft to it but you expect that with a 14 inch unit they're not quite what you'd consider a thin and light and honestly structural rigidity doesn't come from nowhere in Sony laptops by and large are pretty well built compared to some of the lower-cost competitors so that's at least what I have come to expect from them so I don't necessarily need it to be the lightest thing in the world there we go I'm about that open okay sorry this is taking so long guys there we go I got foam removed I'm going to go ahead and install the battery the top is a bit of a fingerprint magnet already but well that's yet another thing that I've come to expect from pretty much every laptop manufacturer out there no one seems to be able to quite figure out a fingerprint fingerprint proof coating so as long as you don't mind wiping it down once in a while it's not that big of a deal unless you're like a total total neat freak or whatever okay so let's figure out how this goes in aha so the battery installation is a little bit different from what I'm used to it actually operates on a little hinge here so you just slide the battery in like that so it's simpler than I had originally thought now let's see if it comes with any charge on the battery whatsoever my experience with recent notebooks has been that it generally does so we've got a little screen protector here on the chiclet keyboard let's get this guy opened up and the hinge is actually quite nice a lot of the time with laptop hinges you can really tell if they're flimsily built but this one seems to have a fair amount of resistance to it and it feels quite solid even when you take it right to the ends and give it a little bit of a push it doesn't have any locks on it so that means that it's going to have to hold itself close you can see once you get close to the end it'll finish it off for you and it holds itself shut quite nicely but then when you give it a little bit of force you can open it up very easily in terms of the display it looks like we're dealing with a glossy screen here although it's not as bad as some of the glossy screens I've seen in terms of reflection so here maybe you can kind of get it at sort of a worst-case scenario angle you can see my hand reflecting off the screen but really it's not that bad even though we're sitting in a office lighting right now which is pretty much a worst-case scenario so language selection I do have to set this up properly because it is for my aunt so okay it'll be configured with English you cannot change the language at a later date are you sure you want to continue okay okay so we've got one touch access to vo care the web and media gallery so the assist button that'll be good for her and then we have the web button as well as the media gallery button let's have a look at the keyboard itself because that's one of the things that really sets us that's one notebook apart from another for me is the overall layout of the keyboard so all of the major keys are where I'd expect them it is a bilingual layout so you're gonna find accent keys and all kinds of characters in pink all over the place but they haven't made too many compromises that I'd be too unhappy with if you have reasonable sized hands you're going to be able to reach the backspace key quite easily and you can also reach the Enter key without too much hassle the shift key is slightly shortened but it's not in an unreasonable position I've seen short and shift keys that are like way over here and it's just not comfortable to type on the right shift key is not shortened and you can reach it quite easily as well we've got the sort of normal complement of F keys as well as we've got British pounds we've got it yet we've got a whole bunch of different stuff here oh cameraman wants to show the all the different inputs though but so here's our power here we've got Gigabit LAN then we have VG as well as HDMI I like this because you've got kind of the the old standard and then the new standard both supported by this particular laptop we've got an esata/usb combo port I love those those are so cool and then we've got an Express card slot here moving around to the front of the notebook we will find a oh that's right that's a memory stick slot then we will find an SD slot I'm glad Sony is finally starting to support some of those industry standard standards rather than only their own so as these guys we've got a wireless switch I can pretty much guarantee I'm going to get a support call from her about that at some point when she accidentally turns it to off and then here we've got a head phone as well as a microphone jack and then on the other side we've got three USB 2.0 ports as well as the DVD Drive personally I don't need a DVD drive for my laptop and I would go for something a little bit thinner a little bit lighter in place of that but for a lot of people it is still essential on the bottom we have hmm not a whole lot we've got access to what appears to be memory upgrade as well as harddrive upgrade but that's about it and realistically on a modern notebook that's about all you should be upgrading anyway oh and there's a Kensington lock here that I missed before but yeah I mean on a modern notebook you're not going to be like upgrading the CPU and upgrading the graphics so there's no real point having easy easy access to the whole thing now I'm just going to type this name while you look away since I don't want everyone to necessarily know the name of my hand she doesn't need a password I guess that's pretty much all I wanted to wanted to say overall the touchpad is quite nice it's one of those textured touch pads so this is this part is smooth and the chassis itself oh that's that's actually really solid the chassis itself has very little flex to it I'm just going to mash the keyboard a little bit here you know what I should even almost take this off the table because the movement of the table is really making it look like it has a lot more flex and it does I'm just going to come right down to the floor and I want you guys to have a look at the keyboard and compare this to your keyboard at home see how my knuckles are all going white I'm putting a lot of pressure on this and there is no flex whatsoever in the keyboard itself so that is how that is what really separates the men from the boys when you're talking the overall build quality of a laptop is how much the chassis gives when you take it and you try to flex it like this or when you try and push down on the keyboard so that's it's not always all about specs and all about screen size there's a lot that goes into designing a laptop the touchpad as I mentioned before is textured so it's one of those ones that's not going to get greasy and sticky if you're using it for an extended period of time it has a left and right click button as we PC users are accustomed to and like I said I think that's pretty much all that I wanted to say but thank you for checking out my unboxing of the sony vaio and i'm going to cheat here ea 33 FG and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more tech videos reviews unboxings and pretty much whatever else I feel like uploading to my channel as with most new notebooks I should problems yeah I one more thing guys sorry as with most new notebooks one of the first things you pretty much have to do is go through and uninstall a bunch of stuff so the first thing that popped up when we got to the desktop was a battery health status meter which is kind of useful actually and then I just want to show you guys exactly what comes pre-installed so I'll probably remove AccuWeather I'll remove arcsoft whatever those things are I'll remove Evernote anything I don't recognize I pretty much remove Google Chrome though that's a good thing to have installed by default I don't mind not at all bunch of Intel stuff Java this is all okay office 2010 trial nice to see that comes on it gives you at least something to use while you decide what route you want to go for office Norton Internet Security I would probably remove a lot of this a lot of this stuff I would probably remove I mean if I had da ps3 this would be kind of cool I mean that's actually that's that's neat and then now what else do we have here so we've got a bunch more vaio software vile care about control center I'd probably nuke all of that although before I do I'll check and see if they're actually useful things that she'll use and then I'll make a judgement call from there so thank you for checking out the video I'm actually done now sorry guys