Sony VAIO SE: An IPS Laptop for Under a Grand
by Jarred Walton on April 3, 2012 5:40 PM ESTSony VAIO SE Gaming Performance
As we’ve noted in the past, we’ve updated our gaming test suite as well as our target settings. We’ve ditched testing at Low/Minimum detail for most laptops, as that often results in a subpar visual experience and we’d rather set “Medium” as our baseline. If you don’t care much for gaming, you can skip straight to the next page, but here are the scores from the VAIO SE. We’ve lumped the Mainstream and Enthusiast results into the Value charts just to save on space, but you’ll want to stick with our Value settings for acceptable frame rates in most titles—and you can forget about 1080p gaming at anything above our Value settings in most games.
* DiRT 3 run in windowed mode on VAIO SE because of driver issue
* ASUS G74SX tested pre-1.4 patch with older NVIDIA drivers
There’s really not much to say. At our Value settings, only Battlefield 3 fails to break 30FPS—possibly because the VAIO SE has an older driver and AMD has definitely improved performance in BF3 with later driver releases. Also worth mention is that DiRT 3 has a problem with the current drivers and refuses to run in full screen mode, so we tested in a window. That probably knocks off at least 20% from the performance, but until/unless Sony releases an updated driver this is all you’ll get. 1080p Value incidentally has almost the same “playability” result as 768p Value—only BF3 and Civ5 can’t break 30FPS, and in the case of Civ5 it’s still fast enough since turn-based strategy games aren’t about twitch reflexes.
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tyrion - Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - link
How is the noise level on linux? Does the fan come on under load, or is it on constanstly? What's your subjective opinion about the noise? I'd like to buy this thing if I knew, it was relatively quiet.azntwboy - Saturday, April 7, 2012 - link
If anyone has done accurate color calibration, could you please share the color profile with us and instructions how to use them? For the reviewer Jarred, did you calibrate during your color tests? Any improvement?azntwboy - Saturday, April 7, 2012 - link
Notebook check had an icc color profile in their review.http://www.notebookcheck.net/uploads/tx_nbc2/SonyV...
On my vpcse13fx the profile is pretty good, and makes the colors a bit more accurate, although red is still not there. It's still a bit yellow so in intel graphics properties on top of the notebook check ICC color profile I changed this setting:
Blue brightness +4
instructions on how to install the ICC color profile
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/584506-review...
whiplash55 - Saturday, April 7, 2012 - link
The display is very good and laptop is a joy to use because of it's size and weight. I find switching into performance mode is almost never necessary.Windows 8 runs amazing on this laptop can't wait for the drivers to catch up, battery life is a almost half as long as with Win 7.
marius18br - Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - link
i hope that in the near future samsung will ship superamoled screens with their ultrabooks (at least the 11.6" ones)anyone else wants the deep black and ∞ contrast of their galaxy (whichever) on their laptops?
Jayayess1190 - Monday, April 23, 2012 - link
Can I just say I got my X220 when it first came out for under $900, with the IPS display option.joeuser2012 - Monday, April 23, 2012 - link
It looks like with the switch set to "Speed" (aka: use the 6630m), you get a more lousy result than if you set it to "stamina" (HD3000) - can someone explain this to me? PCMark's site was less than forthcoming as to what the computation really means.karasaj - Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - link
Does anybody know if the new Sony Vaio with the GT640M LE will allow you to install updates from Nvidia? I would love this laptop if I can get updated drivers for it.sarahjordan - Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - link
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