Review Of Sony VAIO NR160E/T and Desknote i-Buddie XP

Sony's NR notebooks are intended to be affordable, chic, and decent all-around PCs that aren't base of the neither barrel or top-of-the-line. Think "midrange notebook" with a fancy shell. They are available in three different colors, have a unique textured surface, and are middle-of-the-road in terms of specs and presentation. Though we like the aesthetic the NR's a bit sluggish and has a ton of bloat ware (pre-loaded software that eats up precious resources). Though it would be semi-easy to remedy these two negatives, out of the box the NR is a smidge disappointing.
Features and Design
The most notable feature of the NR series is its sleek design, which features smooth edges, a textured outside and three colors to choose from: Silk (white), Wenge Brown and Granite Silver.
The frame has an interesting texture to it, and certainly makes it look more elegant than your standard run-of-the-mill notebook. The textured surface is found on the back of the LCD, but not the front, and on the entirety of the palm rest.
The VAIO NR is a modern notebook in that it's using the Intel 965 chipset, but it doesn't sport all the bleeding edge components we've seen in recent notebook reviews. For example, it features an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, but it's a low-end chip with just 2MB of L2 cache (instead of 4MB found on higher-end models) and runs at just 1.5GHz. On the RAM front it has just 1GB (two 512MB firewood of DDR2 5300). The NR we received for review has a 160GB 5400rpm SATA hard drive, variations of this notebook receive in a 250GB hard drive, and slightly faster processors .
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Desknote i-Buddie XP
It looks like a laptop, but isn't one; the producer likes to call it the ‘DeskNote' - on the whole a desktop PC in a laptop shell! The disparity between the I-Buddie and a correct laptop is that in the previous, most of the mechanism used are same as the ones used in the desktop computers, in order to save on costs. The i-Buddie XP uses a conservative Athlon XP 2000+, and other standard desktop machinery without any of the expensive power saving trickery that makes laptops much costlier. The Buddie does not come with a battery, and though you can buy a series pack unconnectedly, you will need to dig bottomless into your wallet, and battery life won't be any high-quality because of the standard power-sapping desktop PC machinery used in this machine. In effect, this means that the DeskNote has to always be close to a authority source and not in fact be used while on the move. Though sounds a bit pointless at first, this actually does labor for some users who use a laptop in office, lug it back home, and work there again, and not use the machine on the move.
The silver-finish i-Buddie XP looks and feels like a standard notebook, and is shipped with a power adapter, power cord, a phone cable and a user manual with software CDs comprising of drivers and some software applications like PC-Cillin 2000 and WinDVD. You also get a CD which comprises of a complete installation of ThizLinux, an operating system based on the Linux kernel. This was rather surprising because the i-Buddie XP DeskNote came preinstalled with Windows XP Home Edition. Overall, we admit that you do get lots for the money you pay.
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