Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3082 in Personal Computers
- Size: 15.5-Inch
- Color: Black
- Brand: Sony
- Model: SVE15122CXB
- Released on: 2012-10-26
- Dimensions: 1.00" h x
14.65" w x
9.90" l,
5.90 pounds
- CPU: Core i3-3110M 2.5 GHz
- Memory: 4GB DDR3 SDRAM
- Hard Disk: 500GB
- Display size: 1366
Features
- Intel Core i3-3110M 2.5 GHz
- 4 GB DDR3
- 500 GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
- 15.5-Inch Screen
- Windows 8
Sony VAIO E15 Series SVE15122CXB 15.5-Inch Laptop (Black)
Product Description
Accented with a diamond cut logo and aluminum lid, the VAIO E Series 15 laptop comes full of features like backlit keyboard, large clickable touchpad, and HD web camera. It comes with Sony Imagination Studio VAIO Edition, Sony’s exclusive pre-installed software that allows you to create something worth sharing.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
By Jenny
We purchased this laptop October 30th, 2012. We would have given this product 5 stars if not for the problems we have had with getting it to turn on. We were very happy with the smaller 14" screen, how lightweight it was, user-friendly, seemed to have a long battery life and we loved the way the keyboard lit up when any key was pressed. Here is the one major problem we've had. We have had this laptop less than 2wks. and we have had nothing but problems getting the laptop to turn on after going into hibernation, sleep and after being shut down. We have tried everything. We made sure the battery was fully charged, took the battery out and reinserted. We tried googling the problem to see how others fixed this problem and even called Sony Vaio Support. One time it would turn on, the next time it wouldn't turn on at all. We repeated the process all over again and sometimes that would work, but more often not. We are feeling very frustrated & disappointed. We have decided to exchange this laptop for a replacement of this exact model and hope the one we are returning is just a fluke. Aside from the problems we have had with this laptop not turning on, we have been happy with this laptop and would recommend this model to others.
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
By M. Powers
The screen is bright, clear yet easy to read in environments with overhead lights like a library. It does not have glare problems to the extent my HP Pavilion does. The keyboard has good ergonomics and layout with no distracting flex. Backlighting is helpful in low light situations. Battery life is excellent. I was in a four hour meeting taking notes with Outlook receiving messages the entire time. The battery life showed 50% and another four hours remaining at the end! The synaptics touch pad works great once one does two things:1) Turn off tapping in the device settings. I don't know why tapping is enabled by default on most laptops with touchpads. For the vast majority of people it just makes using a touch pad much more difficult.2) Become adjusted to the button positions which are under the single large touch pad towards the bottom.Windows ReadyBoost improves disk performance. I am using a SanDisk Extreme 16 GB SDHC Class 10 UHS-1 Flash Memory Card 45MB/s SDSDX-016G-X46 which I formatted as exFat.Here is the first issue I had with a fix:Machine: Sony VAIO E Series SVE14122CXW with windows 8Problem: DVD drive not recognized in explorer or device manager.Attempted to configure for auto play and inserted valid DVDs to no avail.Sony support via online chat thought it was a hardware problem and I would need to return machine. Having dealt with HP, Toshiba and Dell support over the years I have found you don't get people with in depth knowledge and troubleshooting ability doing support. I tried some different things on my own and found a fix.FIX:1) Put bootable DVD in machine (like windows 7 bootable install media)2) Power machine down3) Wait 1 minute then power up4) Keep hitting spacebar during boot5) When windows 8 starts, it recognizes the drive and remembers it going forward!What looked like a Sony hardware problem was more likely a Windows 8 problem.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
By S. Copeland
I had really high hopes for this laptop. I was particularly interested in the Sony VAIO E Series for its price point, the build and design, it has good specs, and I loved the idea of having a backlit keyboard as this feature is more in high end laptops and was getting out of my budget. I looked up numerous YouTube videos and models for a solid week or so and came down to this particular one for the price, color, and screen size.First impressions were good. I loved the packaging and box, and upon taking the laptop out, the design is absolutely gorgeous. It's very sleek and sharp.The problems then started coming as I was setting the laptop up; first thing I noticed right out of the gates.- A whole section of my backlit keyboard was defective. I even took it into a dark room and tested it constantly and fiddled through the settings just to make sure I didn't have a incorrect setting enabled or something needed to be enabled.- The laptop was uneven on my desk. You could push down on one side and the laptop would slightly wobble. I tested this on several desks and counters around the house.- The hard drive constantly made a scanning noise, even when the laptop was idle, I double and TRIPLE checked processes running in the background, but for some reason, the laptop began to be really noisy and there was nothing I could do to subdue the noise coming from the HD.- The touchpad is an absolute nightmare to use. Scrolling is choppy, the cursor skips everywhere on the screen when typing.I've owned many laptops ranging from HP, Toshiba, Apple, Dell. This was my first Sony VAIO product and I had high hopes as Sony is always known for their quality VAIO line. I was extremely taken back and disappointed on this model. I had high hopes and REALLY wanted to like it as its the best looking laptop around this price point.I don't know if I got a lemon, but based on these models posted on Amazon, the reviews are very scattered from 1 star to 5 star ratings. It seems that the quality control and testing maybe wasn't very thorough. I will be returning this and maybe expanding my budget a bit to get something with more quality control, because this laptop needs some serious work.
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