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Sony VAIO CR Series VGN-CR31S/L

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5 Stars best in 14.1" series, sony CR
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Recommendable: Yes

Advantages good processing speed with graphics memory

Disadvantages battery life

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Sony Vaio CR31Z/R
Sony has launched some luxurious notebooks since last couple of years, and the CR series from Sony became more popular in these days. Looks and feel are extremely good in this series. Sony has mainly targeted on solid looking notebooks with adequate features and latest technology also. In this series the new model Vaio CR31Z now in market with fully featured and configured.
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Here is again my discussion points will be its good features with advantages and disadvantages also. First of all I always use to target my first discussion on processor of any notebook, because it is more important in all features at all. So here is also a good processor we can see in this model with Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 with 2.4 GHz of clock speed. Front size bus speed is about 800 MHz and L2 cache size is 3 MB, in my opinion this processor is extremely good for notebook uses in any kind of latest applications of gaming experience. Generally we see that the clock speed in notebook processor remain about 2 GHz and front size bus speed about 600 MHz, so this processor has slightly higher clock speed and bus size. Go ahead with having better experience with high speed processor with Sony.
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Now the point of discussion about memory size of this model in terms of internal memory and RAM and hard disk drive. The Ram size is something common with compare to some other laptops it is around 2GB of DDR2 SDRAM with 667 MHz of speed, not bad at all with sufficient capacity and having further up-gradation option up to 4 GB. If we consider about the RAM size than we should analyze our requirements, if we are planning to purchase this laptop for general purpose or use than this RAM is sufficient enough and if our target is higher gaming or 3D modeling work with heavy graphics than it will be better to upgrade this size to 4 GB.
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I faced some problem with 4GB RAM also in 3DS max application with higher modeling, the RAM can't do everything with graphics, there should be a better graphics card also and now the next discussion is about graphics card.
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Graphics is a another main feature with any laptop and here is also an good graphics available with ATI Mobility Radeon X2300, having about 831 MB of total available graphics memory, this is not a totally dedicated graphics memory, it is shared with RAM and provide required graphics memory to applications. Here is more important point is that this graphics card has a feature of taking extra required memory from Ram so that RAM capacity also should be more enough to full fill both requirements. We can't take this size of graphics memory so easily it is best available in laptops and can deal well with extremely high graphics applications and games.
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This notebook is not targeted with gaming market but Sony has provided good processor with better graphics memory, and the display size is normal with 14.1" wide screen TFT display.
Other features are more or less common with compare to all other notebooks like LAN card, camera, connectivity solutions, audio, battery etc.
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Over all conclusion
As a 14.1" series notebook it is best available notebook in the market with high configured and latest features. Recommended.

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