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There are USB ports on either side, which is convenient, although only the left side has USB 3.0. In CrystalDiskMark, the hard drive put up a read rate of 72 megabytes per second (MBps) and a write rate of 70MBps, which is also sluggish for a notebook of this calibre. The Lenovo has 8GB of RAM and a hard drive with a higher density though. Compared to the other Core i7-3612QM laptop we've seen, Lenovo's ThinkPad Edge E530, the Blender time is spot on, but the iTunes and AutoGordianKnot times are on the slow side. It recorded a time of 22sec in the Blender 3D rendering test, 50sec in our iTunes MP3 encoding test, and 47min in our AutoGordianKnot DVD-to-Xvid transcoding test. The configuration in our model performed well in some tests, but not all. Our test laptop came with a 320GB, 5400rpm Hitachi hard drive, but retail versions of the same laptop ship with a much larger 750GB, 5400rpm model. It's joined by 4GB of DDR3 SDRAM (1600MHz) and an AMD Radeon HD 7670M graphics adapter with switching technology.

SONY VAIO S SERIES I7 REVIEW SOFTWARE

The Ivy Bridge-based Intel Core i7-3612QM CPU runs at 2.1GHz and has four cores as well as Hyper-Threading, which allows the CPU to work on eight software threads simultaneously, making it perfect for multi-threaded applications and extreme multitasking. There is a powerful configuration inside the laptop. Unfortunately, the Wi-Fi adapter is an Intel Wireless-N 2230, which only performs in the 2.4GHz frequency band it does support Intel Wireless Display (WiDi) though.

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You also get a webcam, Bluetooth and 802.11n Wi-Fi. As far as laptop features go, this is a good set, and we like that there are two USB ports on each side for convenience. The base houses a DVD burner, as SD card slot, separate keyboard and microphone ports, four USB ports (two of which are USB 3.0), HDMI, VGA and Gigabit Ethernet. Whether you think it's ugly or not is up to you, but we think it's a little too glossy. There are the purple-shaded keys and touchpad perimeter, the rubber keyboard overlay, the very glossy screen and bezel, and a base that's a little longer than the lid when the notebook is closed.

Sony has always created relatively interesting laptops to look at, and with the E Series 14P, there is plenty to draw your attention.

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