PCG-VX

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Overview

Black VGN-CS with its LEDs

The Sony VAIO PCG-VX Series is a range of mid-end laptops released by Sony between March and June 2002. It's one of the evolutions of the PCG-XR, released the previous year, which was offered in many different variants.

On the contrary, one of the weak points of the VX was that it wasn't offered with different setups and the optional were just limited to the RAM and software.

Very acclaimed for its modern and thin design, its specs were considered the weak point of this laptop series.

In fact, while the competitors (like IBM and Compaq) offered one of the best GPUs in the market equipped in their laptops (ATI Mobility Radeon), the VX had as only available GPU the Intel 815EM, low end for 2002, making it "lose" the competition between the high-end laptops.

Analogously, this series was offered just with one CPU, the Intel Pentium, not powerful but very well developed in terms of energy saving, making the VX Series ones of the best laptops in terms of battery life.

On the other hand, it was very appreciated that it was equipped with many ports (like firewire) and an external CD/DVD drive was included in the price. It supported Wi/Fi but didn't have Bluetooth, not even as an optional.

For all those reasons, it can be considered a well-made but mid-range laptop.

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Detailed Specs

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T3400 2.16 GHz, T6400 2.0GHz, P8600 2.40GHz, P8700 2.53GHz, T9550 2.66GHz

Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD, NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS (optional and rarely available)

Display: 14,1“ 1280x800 XBRITE-ECO

Memory: DDR2-SDRAM (2 slots, not soldered)

Storage: 2.5" SATA

Weight: 2.6 kg

Original OS: Windows Vista

Daily Usage Today

VGN-CS Series laptops can still be used today, as they are equipped with 2008/2009 top of the range CPUs.

It can be used for web browsing and simple programs like text writing and creative apps from around 2010, with better performance in the models with the NVIDIA GPU.

Games from 00s years can be played, but it may not handle modern videogames, still playable with cloud gaming apps.