Sony Vaio VPC-SE2 Series

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 5 expert reviews

Excellent:

1
Good:

3
Average:

0
Bad:

1

Pros:

Nice extras, including a hard drive shock sensor and a massive battery slice addon ($150) available. Fantastic display. Refined touchpad could make you give up on mice for good. Incredibly lightweight for its size.
Very light for 15-inch laptop; Full 1080p display; Comfortable backlit keyboard; 10+ hours of endurance with sheet battery
Slim build, Light weight, Has 1080p display, Long battery life, doubled by an extended battery slice, Complimentary silicone keyboard skin is a nice touch.

Cons:

Xanadulike, chromeheavy design. Fourth USB port would be appreciated. Stability and performance issues. Noisy fan and a crummy keyboard.
Clunky GPU switching mechanism; Audio a bit tinny

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Last revision on August 3, 2013

Reviewers Liked

Nice extras, including a hard drive shock sensor and a massive battery slice addon ($150) available. Fantastic display. Refined touchpad could make you give up on mice for good. Incredibly lightweight for its size
Very light for 15-inch laptop; Full 1080p display; Comfortable backlit keyboard; 10+ hours of endurance with sheet battery
Slim build, Light weight, Has 1080p display, Long battery life, doubled by an extended battery slice, Complimentary silicone keyboard skin is a nice touch

Reviewers Didn't Like

Xanadulike, chromeheavy design. Fourth USB port would be appreciated. Stability and performance issues. Noisy fan and a crummy keyboard
Clunky GPU switching mechanism; Audio a bit tinny
Performance lags behind peers, Manual graphics switching (with a physical switch) is a drag, No Blu-ray drive

Expert reviews and ratings

The Sony Vaio VPC-SE2M9E/B runs through most of our tests almost effortlessly in our lab. It starts with the elegant, completely black multimedia notebook's excellent workmanship. The connectivity is absolutely fitting for its application field....

By NotebookCheck on May 13, 2012

Man, I wanted to love this laptop when I first heard about it. On paper, the Sony Vaio S Series has everything I could want in a machine.It’s massively spec’ed out with a 2.8GHz Core i7 CPU, 6GB of RAM, a 640GB hard drive, and an integrated...

By Wired on April 02, 2012

The 15.5 inch Sony VAIO SE delivers a full HD display, solid performance in a very light...

By LaptopMag on March 07, 2012

The Sony VAIO VPC-SE23FX/S is a competent desktop replacement laptop with long battery life and a healthy feature set, but a few fumbles, like manually switching graphics, keep it from ranking higher....

By PC Mag on February 29, 2012

Das Sony Vaio VPCSE2S1E/S ist eins dieser Geräte, die nach Abschluss der Arbeit mit ihnen einen beinahe ratlosen Tester hinterlassen. Einerseits ist es kein Problem, sich mit den Leistungseigenschaften zu begnügen. Für alle gängigen...

By Notebookjournal on April 02, 2012