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This is the fastest chip around, but with a 1.6GHz frequency (it does up to 2.6GHz when Turbo Boost kicks in), two cores and Hyper-Threading, it should be fine for most office, Web and entertainment tasks. It’s an ultra-low voltage chip (15W) that provides a similar level of performance compared to a 1.7GHz third-generation Intel Core i5 model (17W), so there’s definitely a gain in efficiency with the fourth-gen CPU. It recorded 50sec in our Blender 3D rendering test and 56sec in our iTunes MP3 encoding test, which are times that we saw out of third-gen Core i5 ultra-low voltage CPUs running at 1.7GHz. It took over 29min to convert a DVD file into an MP4 using Handbrake, which isn’t a good time, but the VAIO Pro can definitely be used in a pinch if you need to do some video transcoding while on the road.
There is also 4GB of RAM installed, and the graphics are taken care of by the Intel CPU, which has Intel HD 4400 graphics, rather than Intel HD 5000 graphics. The 3D graphics performance from the HD 4400 chip is solid, though. In 3DMark06, the VAIO Pro got 4672, while in the latest 3DMark, it got 26425 in the Ice Storm test, 3191 in the Cloud Gate test and 443 in the Fire Strike test. It would have been great to see this model with a CPU that has Intel HD 5000 series graphics instead, but even the Core i7 version of the VAIO Pro offers Intel HD 4400 only.
The best aspect of the configuration for us is the use of a PCI Express-based solid state drive (SSD), which can provide much greater bandwidth than Serial ATA-based drives. This was shown in CrystalDiskMark, where the 128GB Samsung MZHPU128HCGM-00000 SSD recorded a read rate of 1040 megabytes per second (MBps), and a write rate of 430MBps. In our own file duplication tests, the drive recorded an excellent rate of 235MBps.
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