Sony's Vaio P benchmarked in all its magnificent and diverse forms
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted March 8th 2009 4:24PM
posted March 8th 2009 4:24PM
Thanks to the work of the gang making time over at their Vaio P forum, the folks at Pocketables have been able to compile benchmarks of all the various configurations of the ultraportable. Including the three models available domestically (which all sport a 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520) and the various 1.6GHz Z530 and 1.86GHz Z540-based machines available elsewhere, this ragtag group of benchmarksters have come to the conclusion that the main factor when it comes to the machine's performance is the disk drive type. "Yes," writes Jenn Lee, "the faster CPUs give the ALU/FLU numbers a noticeable bump up, but it's not as significant as the increase seen between a HDD and SSD." Hopefully this is some small comfort to those of you who are miffed that the 1.86GHz model isn't available in the States. Of course, now that we've seen the Vaino we're so over Sony's sassy'n'classy non-netbook, but if you're morbidly curious the read link tells the whole sordid tale.
1.86Ghz atom... SSD
Vaio...
That would have my wallet whimpering for a decade.
What significant results did you think you were going to get from these benchmarks? The Vaio is nothing but a generic WINTEL system with a different package.
THEY ARE ALL ALIKE. THE SAME FUCKING OS AND THE SAME FUCKING CHIPS!!!!!!
Now, if we were talking about them BRAVIAS....Oh shit. Now you playing with fire baby.
I want a Sony 1080p 35 inch and I will get one by the end of the year. Those my friends can't be touch by many in this tech game.
Jeez, take a prozak
I totally agree! All those freaking netbooks are all the same, and the only way to break away from the conformity is to get a TV?
W...T...F?!
Behold, the Chinese are not fooled by Sony's advertising:
http://map.answerbox.net/landmark-896220.htm
Those pics are from 4chan, and there was an article with them in on Engadget when the P was announced...
Thanks. The slightest mention of 4chan has now rendered Engadget NSFW.
lets see 10 inch asus 1000he.,$345.,or sony $1100.,for same spec configuration.,hmmh ,,what to buy.,????????????
I respect sony designs, but were in the middle of a global depression.,.,.,.,
Technically, they're not the same chip or chipset. The Vaio P uses the more expensive and smaller Z500 series of Atom CPU, whereas the Eee uses the cheaper N280. The Eee also has an older chipset which uses more power and doesn't have the same GPU chip either.
Besides that, there's that extra high resolution Vaio P screen that costs money.
Now, don't get me wrong, I still think it's a little overpriced (what Sony computer isn't?) and I would never buy one for myself, but saying they're the same specs is misleading. It's mostly comparable performance, yes, but Sony is definitely using higher end parts as well.
And way to make the comparison more unfair by using a more expensive model of the Vaio. The base configuration is $900. I think it'd have to be $700 or so to be worth the money, but it's not as bad as you're making it sound.
yes, because the company you NORMALLY express love for is so much cheaper than the competition for the equivalent specifications, and you don't use design and build quality as excuses...
i highly doubt people considering a vaio p give a shit about the recession
can we ban the words "recession" and "depression" because every time there's a post about a product that costs more than $20 some jerk mentions it
The middle of last year, the N270 went for 44$, I am assuming that the Z500 will be 20-40% more in cost. That does not justify the Sony Vaio P costs.
@Steve,
Indeed only a better CPU doesn´t, but then besides a better CPU it also has a high res screen, carbon casing, sdd drive (option atleast), better GFX and not to mention high quality materials. Comparing a netbook which bends by just pressing on it with a poor screen and a keyboard where a girl even can´t type properly on it with this product just doesn´t match.
But then we can also compare a Vaio X505 with a Gateway laptop, sure the specs are more or less the same yet the price is a 4 fault. Sure it has some Sony taxing on it, but its isn´t as bad as it seems. But then when we hear netbook we expect to get high specs for no money, right?
The part of this whole thing, especially regarding Sony's attempt at a net-book, is the Crystal-Mark scores. With the fastest arriving at slightly over 28000, the price tag makes me hurl when having tested my own 1000H to find the benchmark scores over 29000. Sony is not Apple, and hence, I will not pay the premium for the Sony experience when competing products outperform it. I am glad that Sony is getting into the game and I hope to see a machine down the road that offers the performance at a price point that is reasonable.
I don't understand why Sony calls this "netbook" pocketable when although it can fit in a pocket, not very comfortably, it sticks out quite a bit and with walking, will probably slip and fall out of your pocket as they show in the actual freaking ad for the device!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAobCRxbbmo
It just looks sad when she's walking and has to keep pushing the Vaio P back in her pocket as it slips out! Or am I just missing something?
I haven't seen it in person yet but have seen pictures of it compared to other netbooks and it does make them look like toys in comparison, that 1600x768 resolution is absolutely crazy.
your username on youtube is questionable
+1...
@myshek123
indeed.
It's a commercial (which by the way is really stylish).
I stopped by Fry's the other night and they one of these Vaio P netbooks out. So I started playing around with it and I thought it to be pretty terrible. While I always love a high resolution screen, text was so small that even me, a guy with better than 20/20 vision, had a tough time seeing. I suppose you could jack up the text size, but since Windows isn't resolution independent, things just wouldn't look right on web pages and stuff. I just don't see the market here. A huge part of the netbook market is that these things are between $250 and $500. With the way Sony is pricing this, I don't know who they think they're competing with...
1600x768...
I welcome this crazy high resolution... I have 1024x600 (on a forementions 1000h, and it's simply not enough to look at pictures... Yeah, it's small, but you can change font sizes, etc, where it matters... It's definitely a trade-off, but there's no other way to get the usable amount of data on the screen, and have the screen be small...
I wish they didn't make it so "pocketable", and made the screen a little taller (ie, 1600x900)... because the internet is vertical, not horizontal (in case someone didn't notice yet).
Yeh i played around with one of them yesterday.
The nub is ok...but seems like a "cheap half assed solutio". I havent used them myself but dont some phones have optical trackpads, i believe the Omnia has one.
The screen is stupidly small and high res. I could barely read a thing.
Felt so very plasticy, no better than an Eee
Disproportionally wide.
I do not understand the craze for wide screen. I think that the 4:3 aspect ratio is better, especially on computers. Also, widescreen makes people get a smaller screen than advertised. For example, a 17" 4:3 monitor has more surface area than a 17" 16:9 screen.
For side-by-side documents in word of course :D
True. But this change has been made for movies. A 24" widescreen monitor will give you a bigger widescreen image of the movie (closely fills the screen) than a 24" full screen monitor. I don't know the math to it, don't want to, but I'm right.
I love you. 4:3 is absolutely the best resolution for computer monitors.
The only reason movies went widescreen is because TVs weren't widescreen and the movies needed something to differentiate themselves.
Also, in movies you can pick up something with your peripheral vision, which is definitely stronger on the sides. But you need to focus on whatever you're doing and that focus should be in a small space, which is why people don't maximize windows on 30" monitors.
The few times I use my monitor for watching movies shouldn't justify the inefficient layout the rest of the time.
to Cosmo - why post a link to your youtube account that is so blatantly racist and closed minded? I will pray for you and your family.
Anyone not notice the quote is horribly dumb? And wrong?
For the record, ALU/FPU are increased only by the speed, HDD choice should not affect it at all. And if you look at the benches, SSD actually slows down the ALU/FPU rather than increase it, which would make sense given the much higher overhead on SSD. Only thing HDD choice should matter in is the disk read/write speed, which the SSD kills the 60GB HDD almost four times over.
This is typical Sony. Over priced and lats to the dance! I am sure this will just fly of the shelves, especially with people loosing their jobs, homes, and with their investments become more worthless by the day.
Go Sony!!!
Kind of interested with the whole redesign rumor going around with the psp and all. Knowing Sony though they will probably screw it up.
Cheers
I LIke it.. however i want still something smaller and better screen with not more res... but more contrast colors....
On Cebit i played with vaio P .. very usable .. but just too big to put it on belt clip...
I found OQO2+ to almost fill my needs... only if they would enable disabled GPS and enable 3G Voice calls+smses
some pics i took: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fl-r/3341159736/