SONY AR69GU

Thursday, September 4, 2008

This one has been designed as a full - blown desktop replacement. Its lid sports a glossy black finish that extends to the area around the LCD panel, giving it an elegant look with sturdy plastic.
It comes loaded , in keeping with its premium status - an Intel C2D T8300 processor (clock speed 2.4 GHz), 4 GB of ram, AND 500gb of storage space. Connectivity wise it offers just about anything and everthing including a Blu-ray record/playback drive.






The keyboard may be a tad small, but it offers a good working experience. The keys offer a good feedback and are quite pleasant to type on. The only downside is that the keys sometimes doesn't allow a register click. This is simply because the keyboard employs a deep-click system, for which the key has to be pounded a little harder than usual. While this is not a big issue, touch typist may sometimes see funny errors.

The LCD PANEL on the AR69GU is a standard TFT-LCD. This was a disappointment, as we were hoping it would have a backlit LED PANEL. The current panel is not bad though . It offers a full HD resolution of 1920 x 1200 and offers excellent color and contrast. The black levels were not as deep as in the Acer 8920, but they were good enough for us to enjoy a full HD without any issues.