1 this is the super bowl tech review todaywe're going to look at a different place we look at the study bio flip third keyin which a convertible ultrabook now look at the flip 15 on the backside for culture but make itso qualifies as one but there's a lot of is different here alot upgradeable internals obviously a bigger despite we'll look at it now so here is the flip 15 after we reviewedthe 13-inch model are you ask for coverage under 14 and 15 inch milestoneis pretty smart there then other people
in different sizes seeking it basicallythe same design in three different sizes there's a lot of difference under thehood does so we decide we will cover the clip 15 the foot 13 is a 13-inch ultrabook sameconvertible design same overall look obviously just smaller these are ssd inside intel core you allthe has well question eration cp is and now onestarts at 1199 now that flip 14 a hot dogs from thebudget one in the in the segment here and now one isequipped with jess's 500 gig spinning
conventional hard drive the same integrated graphicsis the ultrabook lower and wireless card actually get to abandon wifi 802 11 acintel on the 13-inch model you get non intelsingle band wifi and 14 germans around $7.99 and then we have the 15 age whichis available in a couple different configurations we're looking at the one that sells for12:49 and its stock at best buy locations i think it's the configuration sony would like to pushfor this model and it's a pretty good
high and 15-inch ultrabook slash well more than just an ultrabook kindamachine like the other two it has the same flip design is a release hingeright here you can flip the display will show you that the vet like the other two has a full hd ips tryluminous display obviously 15.59 should such bigger inside you could get order with an ssdpwanted this mind getting into one terabyte 5400 western digital drive with16 gig seven and flash that's not a separate and saturday drivethere that's actually integrated into
the hard drive for caching it'sreasonably effective to reduce windows load times and program load times eight games a ram that that's a hallmark out the flip series we're glad to seesony moving up to eight gigs ram in there and this was one has intel wifi this and 7260 single-brand 2.4 gigahertz wifi fight that's what's confusing with thatparticular intel doubt that is a couple different configurations
so single band wifi here for the pricewould really like to see dole then it is a pci express car you couldactually swap it out for a domain card if you wanted what's really interestingabout this machine is number one is less buggy the 13 inchflat number two and there's a lot of upgradeable parts inside if you want to be just slightly braveopen this guy up screws on the bottom right heretorturers and you're going to have to pry off alittle rubber strip here not to our there's a he's around the strip it willgenerally speaking
adhere to the strip if you take it offto get some respite you have access to two ram slots in here saying up to 16 gigs are and to get toate cake sticks as pretty darn nice standard sad a hard drive a two and ahalf inch seven millimeter height so if you want upgrade to your own ssd drive aftermarket easy to find thisthe most common standard notebook size drive to put inside he ran to get70 meter high it is a thinner one must come on the market like the samsung 840even though they are seven millimeter aunt also to mentionthe wireless card socket is a
nice about this is that you can dosomething great operating most ultrabooks pretty much everything is soldered on and the ssddrive is either am sad and two pci express its it'sgetting pretty hard to find those drives if you wanna do something yourself aftermarket so for those he who won allfuture proofing in terms of being on the changer storage and increase the ramtake up cpu that saw her on board the graphicssouthern port also need about this model is it has tool graphics and videooptimise graphics you have the usual
intel hd 4400 graphics in this stilluses intel has well for generation ultrabookcpu's 15 wat once even get the core i5 4200 you the core i7 45 into you whichis what we have in here but you also get invidia gt 7:35 a.m. dedicated graphics with to get agraphics near me inside some that makes is something of a lightthe modern gaming machine and also threw for those who do a lot ofimage editing works in video editing word good stuff and given the bank this is anactive digitizer with the entry
digitizer technology i think a lot because my money is thisfor artwork image manipulation that kinda thing ways 5 pounds so as 15.58 enter 50-inchclass on japan's go that's not too terribly heavy obviously it's not ultrabook lights out the flip 13 is recounts the for fourteen is fourpolicy keep going up a counterweight to go up the scale things you see is very slim very stylish samedesign as we saw on the flip 13
just gets bigger it also has i kindaoverhang designers so many things is attractive and yet it is attractive butit makes all is going to be really have to look around the edge to see airports you can see here you get plenty importsbig machine means reports two usb 3.0 ports right here full-sizehdmi as well violation on the other side we have another usb3.0 port we have our full-size sd card slot are como audio jack and gigabit ethernetwill drop down right there
of course our power but nope so i putthat on the side and there's a fine control back here so when using in tablet know you haveaccess to hardware controls are having to resort people c&c those rubber feet over hereto keep the back in couple that for better typingand also to give ventilation well some pre florida nice metal casing i available in silveror black your choice shows fingerprints you have to wipe itwith a damp cloth little bits of so
personally that to get those things off on is plastic overall nice qualitymachine yeah i given the design and half and itis this doesn't feel like it dell xps machine or what is right thingpairs i'm not gonna drop this on the table to prove how durable it is i justwent through that with this so those are you're wondering thinking about maybe the flick 13 versusthe xps 12 he this is not meant to be abuse i havea feeling not that it's flimsy or anything likethat is
those inspired the same level i want touse it confident the lid opens up boy this is one stephinge i will this reasonable time i don't know since this is a big piece aclass i would use two hands open just to support us so that we don't talk toclass it's not that is flimsy it's actuallypretty rigid here but again it's just the feeling that you get with it the stiffness is nice so when you dothis you not getting i mean i can really yeah if i hit it bounce a lot also thosein the table above the if you're using for artwork normalpressure like this doesn't move a lot
inner harbor few used on clip early soyou can see how this looks right here like some if you want to use it for artwork you can set up just aboutlike that indrani which is what i do and it's stiffen up that you actually can sothat's a really great position cuz at five pounds and 15 .5 inches this is not something that you justgonna put the crook of your arm when you try maybe put down and destiny's likethis is great question on superdome all the way inusercontrol tablet mon it a little bit of an angle right therethere's an accelerometer i'll handle
screen rotation presuppose the right wayi am keep the home button which is amechanical quickie tight at the bottom is welcome the slope is also comfortable so you maywant to use it like sup ips display so viewing angles a greatactually among the flip 13 14 and 15 i say the 15 seems to have the bestviewing angles this is a glossy full hd display chinesetrial in this technology again with their quantum dots it is eight core justice flame andwatching movies on this is just a tree
supports 10-point multi-touch and alsothe entry penned a sony sells the pan optionally on this 12:49 best buy model we have well thisis a pen supply by injuring themselves nice pretty orangecollar is the same as what sony gives you in terms of functionality except ihappen to have a lil grip your trip on the same entry is working on so works for the pan as well now that's really nice on the 13 inchbecause you i'll miss your pretty teenie at full hd
on this honestly you i almonds and ihave a hundred percent scaling going right here so the icons and i'm in alarge touch points are pretty good even knowobviously desktop windows is not so much designed for touch when it comes to color gamut you can seeright here ninety-six percent srgb that is very good salsa right upthere with the flip 13 so for those of you who are graphics professionals that's desirable wide color gamut a notonly does it mean prettier pictures and videos with more colors g
it also means that you gonna get better color accuracy and 75 percentadobe rgb as laptops go this is as good as yougonna get in terms of brightness were measuring ina 216 it's a brightness which is not while the bright it's fine for indooruse i it's enough to combat claire indoorsoutdoors not so much contest is very good is 662one and black levels are also good as well now for those of you who are feelingadventurous love those high resolution
displays and got three hundred dollarsadditional to spend you can actually get this for the 28 eighty by six tween 20 pixel display yellow love pixels their pixels are infashion apple started that whole thing with the retina displays windows is just not quite all the areanow windows 8 in even a point one particularly handlescaling pretty well ui elements are visible you can usescaling to control that you can even set scaling independently on thedisplacement
the problem is not all windowsapplications respect windows dpi setting so you notice photoshop g nice double those pixels the menu zinamicroscope to see them so is up to you if you really want thatsuper high-resolution display i find running this 1920 by 1080 and 15 .5inches disc and the perfect sweet spot we don't need any scaling and everythingjust works if you like to play games you're goingto bounce resolutions around a deal with issues where windows hassome particular issues when switching orientations and suddenly changingresolutions at the same time the work
these things out so that's up to you three hundreddollars additional staying at three hundred dollarsadditional if you want a three hundred dollars of the price this model firm two hundred fiftydollars is a you go down to 999 and you can get this without the dedicatedgraphics and was a 750 gig hard drive and serve a terabyteminutes all this by more than most about youevery 10 years in terms of storage by that takes you down to the core i5 ikinda like this configuration myself i
think the monies actually worth it terms of how the hinge works as the sameas on the flip 13 this is the pivot point right here is kinda freaky sonya is very good at designing weirdthings like this to actually hold up with time and work well so i'm not tooworried as long as you're nice to listen you don't you know grab it and try to carry and twister youknow evil kinda ways i think you take care when you play nicely with the it's gonna work well
returning from the side you can see thisis how it works just really like a split in the lab this is what it looks likefrom the backside and there is a lock here lock slider and with the 13 i left unlocked all the timewith this one because it this play is so bay i found that pushing on it we tendto flip it at a position so i actually do usethe lock when i'm in laptop mode and those who have to push this backsufficiently so it doesn't actually hitter keys here but yeah if you putthis to you might actually get it slipping
again site use the lock button when it'sa laptop but that's not invite the screen goes reasonably far back notsuper far back that as far as it goes i find it i generallydon't need to go back any further if i did i'd probably start using aconvertible position you can of course use in thatpresentation but we just hasn't had it in you can use it until now if you want keyboard deck nice pretty metal stuffright here just like slid large snapped extracthair always happy to see synoptics surface texture is girl that roughlyit's a great rack pair it's not the
greatest acts and driver updates couldprobably improve that some it does support him swiping gestures not the finger touchthat kinda thing it works good isn't there is one what i r promisesthat the clickers are very very stefan is it takes some effortneeded to tap to click to bed fellows in actually like to clickboy assets different keyboard large roomy accords 15 inchdevice is backlit as well back-biting works well a it's allcontrolled by sony's ambient light sensor there so
you don't have control over backlightstaging on perfectly normal and appears tomultimedia keys appear using fn key if you want to activate those there's not a whole lot spring here alittle bit if i go pushing down very very well some people call this free it's not so much that spring he reallyit it's the fact that the israel travelhere for 15 inch machine yes i know it's kenny is an ultrabook very is just not a lot he shall it's nota joyous keyboard to type on its not
hideous you never me know some movement there af2 use onoovoo or dell xps keyboard are you gonna say now he could do better how aboutnoise that was that they know the clip 13's existence and even after somefirmware updates install a kind of a vacuum cleaner unless you put it on thelow power energy management saving settingand thereby reduced performance a bit more room here for a violation for fansgood news is it is not backing clear that is pretty muchnormal if you're just sitting there typinginward looking at the web even streaming
hd video you won't even hear the fanonce while scanning come on but nothing offensive to saidlisa this is gone for a couple firmware updates to 1 a.m. in fact it quite the fan some wouldn'tfor a 15-point five inch notebook with these kind internals no complaints absolutely with the fannoise now if you gonna play games and we're gonna have a separate gamingdemolition sisters have dedicated graphics the fan will come on anything that is aslimmer lighter ultrabook when you play
games you are going to hear the fan you haveto move to something like the assumes republicans gamer on msi gaming machine if you really wantsomething has quiet operation when gaming sup take that what you will if you'rerunning vm students offered a moment running multiple the ends if you'reexporting for hd video you'll hear the fan come on and it's not going to bequiet but it's only gonna come on march workinghard and it does call them very quickly
when you're done i played half an hour of skyrim and when i stopwithin a minute the fans react back down when i was playing skyrim yet you can hear battery life on thiskyrie this is the price you pay for somethingthat is slim and may is relatively light as possible sony claims five hour runtime i findthat their actually being a lil bit shy there because we had nine should seethat already two parts going to windows 8.1 this one shipped withwindows 8 actually helping is a point
when does further improve battery life and housewell ultrabook cpu's our power efficient when using this with dedicated graphicsnot gay scene video mishandles and doing productivity kindawork in streaming video where intel hd 4400 more than capable not really amounts 5.5 sometimes even sexhours with this and that's what the brightness said about 35 percent whichis as low as i would personally wanna go on thisdespite if you do make some more demanding tasksi would count on that five that sony
promises from the 48 1 hour 31seventy-million battery that is sealed inside of youtake those crews of you do have access to the battery inside so how about performance first of thatthat hybrid hard drive actually does a good job with windows boot times and also withapplication launch time is not as fast as an ssd when you're launching programs particularly if it's somethingreally would love resource alone like today's
3d games but overall it's a pretty goodperformer so our model it the one point a carriage core i7 dish 4500 you eight kings avram that terabyte hybridhard drive invidia gt 7:35 a.m. graphics scored 3557 on pc mark 7 there was a lower thansome ultrabooks because pc market a lot away on ssddrives this does not have an ssd drive you can order it won't be fun if youwant you can put one in yourself but it does not have it that's why you'reseeing the difference in the benchmarks 3d mark eleven-hour performance test
17 74 that's a lot better than the 700 to 900 that we saw it see with intelhd 4400 graphics and even beat intel iris 5100 graphics on the issues zenbook you exit 301 that we recentlyreviewed so another performance there for some likegaming time on regaining w prime be computed pie in nineteenpoints 6 second which is par for the course forthe core i7 cpu geekbench 329 64 single-core 58 09 multi-core good showing theirantique french three
send a wrench r15 the cpu tester 244 and we actually got to run the open gltest census has dedicated graphics and it scored 28 points six frames persecond so good showing their on benchmarks atgenerally speaking what we would expect from with thismachine has inside doesn't feel fast yes it feels fast itsis plenty fast now the only difference would be between this and anothermission if you have really serious intense computing needs you might slow ilook the same with the full mobile quad-core cpu inside seven ultrabook cpuyou know who you are if you doing
something like compiling 900,000 lines of code for example you might want that and now it s up thespeakers and the play video this is sony's bravia 4k test videos obviouslyunit intel hd free for 100 rappers can handle 4k playback you see the color saturation screen isjust stunning speakers are set to their default musicprofile 66 percent volume so now bad speakers either for fifty digenova certainly there are better for for saysome the simpson should be eloquent
laptops but that's cuz pretty goodpretty good i'm pretty good quality just a joy to watch movies on this onthis lee's full hd displays gorgeous here the and interns ownerid wifi call you know the community she wassome sony laptops this one has again the single band intel made 7260 and adapter and we had noproblem with signal quality or strength or dropouts anything like that it is 2.4 gigahertzonly will get the same speed as you put all been a few years in the fivegigahertz
section but overall it's been solid forus it's also has bluetooth 4.0 and and atsea so we have our entry pan and again sonydoesn't include the pan with this missus ever purchased for forty dollars andshould be stock at best buy stores certainly it's sunny stories as well we've got photoshop cc running here andthere big exciting news is finally we have a went and the driver for pressuresensitivity in photoshop for showers work with the panos just thepressure sensitivity that was an issue so we're running for a shop cc hereagain
but this to work with all later versionsof photoshop we have our pan right here again we're gonna do a complete demoalso to our task is i think that this 15.58 disc this place is the dream come truefor artists who are tired and working a little surface pro two screens arecurrently and just such a pressure sensitive and while i knowing i have any i finally it's here as always entry has very good tipaccuracy that there's no also to the pan i don't spend a lot of time
doing calibrations like i do withblackened digitizers to get that been to line up is what i'm seeing onthe screen here also goes out to the edges very nicely so it's great to finally see that's forthose who want to use photoshop our rage is also bundled that's a finewindows api base our program so you don't have to worry about you with went and drivers for that thatworks great tune again will have a separate our demo just so you can seethat thinking demo with one out as wellthat's the plan fifteens available now
in a variety of configurations andhonestly i we have reservations about the clip 30 but the flip 15 is impressing us dedicated graphicsgood percent lighten the weight gaining really reallyand nice ice cream for those the one individual are we now have adobephotoshop pressure sensitivity speedy light decent battery life very thin very stylish intelligentconvertible design on this for mobile tech million be sureto visit our website to the full written review and hit that subscribe button
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