Sony Vaio FJ

The Sony Vaio FJ series is a 14.1 inch notebook designed for Windows XP and the FJ270, FJ290, FJ330,FJ370 models in particular, are designed for Windows Vista. The FJ Series uses only the Sonoma Pentium M processors.

The VAIO FJ has a thin, 14.1" wide screen display with Sony's original XBRITE-ECO LCD technology and it has a built-in Motion Eye web camera above the screen in the bezel.

Low end FJ

Sony released a low end edition of FJ series. This was much cheaper and available from US$800 dollars, but it didn't included a built in camera, and used Intel Celeron (1.60GHz) processor instead of the more powerful Centrino CPU (1.90 or 2.33GHz). It also included 60GB hard drive instead of the usual 100GB. This model sold well in Asian market.

FJ Market

The FJ series was first targeted as a home/work computer as the FJ190 but the FJ270/370 which was the most powerful edition was for home/work/student computer the FJ290 which had inferior specifications was the "colors" computer because it was available in five color which were later expanded to 9 colors when VAIO 10th anniversary special edition appeared in Japan the FJ series called F light is available in different colors than in America and was TV capable using Windows Media Center. F light series are starting to be replaced by the C series like in America.

Specifications

*Intel Centrino Processor 750 or Centrino Napa(Intel Core Solo)(newer models such as fj270 or fj370)
*1.86 GHz SPEED
*1GB (PC2-4200 512MB x 2) RAM MEMORY
*100GB HARD DRIVE
*WXGA Screen with 14.1” XBright - Res: 1280×800
*MULTIMEDIA CARD READER (Memory Stick (with MagicGate functionality)
**Memory Stick PRO (with MagicGate functionality)
**Memory Stick Duo (with MagicGate functionality)
**PCMCIA (Type I and Type II card slot with CardBus support)
*Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 915 or 950 with 128MB (dynamically allocated shared RAM/video memory)
*1 mp built in webcam
*Wifi 802.11b/n
*BATTERY LIFE:
**Windows XP: 1.5 to 3.5hr
**Windows Vista1.2 to 2.5hr

Trivia

*In the 2006 movie The Holiday Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) Had a Sony Vaio Fj series laptop in Pearl White Color.
*In the film Casino Royale (2006 film) Le Chiffre has a Sony Vaio Fj series in color Onyx Black, as do Judi Dench as M has also an Fj series in Pearl White.

External links

* [http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2618 Review of the FJ Vaio]
* [http://www.laptopical.com/fj-vaio.html Article about the Sony FJ Vaio]

See also

*VAIO