IRL Review VAIO X Ultraportable Laptop- Years ago while perusing Notebookreview.com and reading Laptop Mag’s advertisements from Sony, I ran across the VAIO X505. The X505 was an absolute mind blower of a machine- in a time when everything was Pentium 4 (with hyperthreading!) with HUGE heatsinks, and barely anything portable was with a dinky…
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Sony VAIO Pro 13 IRL Review
Sony VAIO Pro 13 IRL Review- The Sony VAIO Pro 13 is Sony’s answer to the Macbook Air 13 (with a Pro 11 targeting the Pro 11). Weighing 2.3 lbs, its much smaller in weight compared to the 2.96 lb Macbook Air 13, and incredible in that 3 years later, it still holds its own against…
Sony DSC-V1 Cybershot Digital Camera IRL Retro Review
Sony DSC-V1 IRL Review- Announced in 2003, the DSC-V1 was Sony’s second from the top model (sitting under the DSC-F515/505), and a spiritual successor to the DSC-S85. The V1 was meant to be a powerful portable digital camera, vs a gigantic behemoth, like the DSC-F828 I just reviewed. Its competitors would have been the P series…
Sony DSC-F828 Digital Camera IRL Retro Review
Sony DSC-F828 Cybershot Digital Camera IRL Review:The Sony DSC-F828 was announced in 2004, and was the successor to the DSC-F717 Cybershot digital camera. It was Sony’s flagship and amongst the first wave of 8 MP cameras (Canon Powershot Pro1, Nikon Coolpix 8800, Konica Minolta Dimage A1, and Olympus C8080, almost all using the same Sony…
Sony SRS-ZX1 2.0 Speaker IRL Review
Sony SRS-ZX1 2.0 Speaker IRL Review– Released in early 2008, I was not aware of this speaker at all until a few years down the road when I read about it on eBay. I wasn’t quite into speakers at the time, and wasn’t certainly as big of a fanatic about Sony as I am now…
Samsung DA-E750 Wireless Audio Sound Dock IRL Review
Samsung DA-E750 Wireless Audio Sound Dock IRL (In Real Life) Review- The e750 (short from now on) was a premium wireless audio dock that could stream over bluetooth APT-X, Apple Airplay, direct Apple 30 pin, and Android MicroUSB and 3.5mm analog. It was one of those products that I would walk by in the store and…
Sony SmartWatch 2 IRL Review
Sony Smartwatch 2 Review – The Sony Smartwatch 2 (I’ll call it the sw2 for short from now on) is Sony’s third attempt at making a smartwatch for Android. It was released in 2013 I believe to little fanfare. I managed to snag the black metal one with a metal strap for a minor discount…
Sony MDR-AS700BT Wireless Sport Headphones review
Sony MDR-AS700BT IRL (In Real Life) review– When I first saw these headphones (I’ll refer them as the AS700s from now on), I wasn’t phased by them too much. I had much more interest in the previous Sony bluetooth sport headphone, the DR-BT160AS because it looked so crazy. It was an old model, but the…
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