SONY VAIO SA Series VPCSA3AFX/SI Notebook Intel Core i5 2430M(2.40GHz) 13.3" 4GB Memory DDR3 1333 500GB HDD 5400rpm DVD±R/RW AMD Radeon HD 6630M

Very light for what its packing. Backlit keyboard is a fantastic feature. Faster than what i thought it would be considering it has a 5400 rpm hard drive

While the keyboard is backlit, it is kind of hard to get used to.. the keys are barely raised from the main frame of the laptop. this can be very aggravating if you are used to the standard pc keyboard. The mouse buttons on the touch pad are quite...

Fast. CPU breezes through basically anything I throw at it. Switchable graphics means I can play all my games with decent settings and at native resolution ; Portable. Very slim and light, even with the sheet battery (included in the version I got). I...

The touchpad. It's an ALPS model, and while it's not terrible, it's not great, either. Coming from a laptop with a Synaptics pad, both the drivers and the digitzer are inferior (think stair-stepping). The stock drivers lack any kind of two-finger...

Great performance for what it is, lightweight, thin profile. Great looking screen, love the backlit keys

Cooling fan is ridiculously loud, I joke that we're getting ready for takeoff whenever it comes on. Not really anything more than a mild nuisance, but still, the loudest I've ever heard. Only reason I took away a star. Also some other small things,...

Quality materials, high performance, very nice screen, cool keypad with backlight. Everything and more than you would expect from Sony VAIO

Just one minor observation, the USB ports are so closely located that when I use a 3G flash modem it doesn't fit if all three USB ports are occupied

Good deal at $749 ; Fast ; Lightweight and solid build

Slightly subpar viewing angles ; Noise UNDER LOAD

On average I travel about 20,000 miles or so per year for business and usually carry two laptops with me; my personal one and my business laptop. My laptop bag usually weighs a good 30lbs easy because of this. Also my old Toshiba was starting to die on...

1) Speakers are very poor quality in my opinion ; 2) Screen does bleed some-what ; 3) Has some bloatware (like all companies provide) ; 4) Smudge/finger print magnet ; The cons are not enough for me to reduce the overall rating. The only time I am not...

Lightweight

Battery life is very bad ; After using for 30 minutes it became very hot and also fan is too noisy ; Performance is extremely poor

Extremely lightweight ; Very very fast, even with stock 4GB of RAM ; With the Radeon graphics enabled, I can run 3D software such as Unity with no problem ; With the onboard graphics enabled, the laptop has a huge battery life ; The keyboard is...

Screen color representations are so/so (is this really a Sony display?) ; There are only a couple USB ports, and they are on one side of the system ; Not much else ; Lots of bloatware, but that's a quick format and re-install fix away

Fast laptop ; Switchable between high/low performance graphics ; Integrated decent graphics card ; Back lit keyboard ; Removable DVD writer

Screen quality is disappointingly low. Not only the image is washed out, but the viewing angles are bad. Compared to a Dell Vostro 5 years old (!) it is so much worse. It also has the worst blacks I've ever seen, making it the worst LCD screen I've...

Great specs for such a small form factor and low price ; Backlit keyboard ; VGA port - these are getting harder to find in ultraportables ; Dedicated graphics ; Optical drive ; Reasonable resolution (1600x900) and good brightness for reading in...

Trackpad - it's an Alps (not a Synaptics) so there's no two-finger scrolling. The few "multi-touch" gestures it purportedly supports are useless. Edge scrolling is finicky/laggy at best. The "spiral scroll" seemed promising, but it rarely engages, and...