Today’s notebooks not only need to meet our daily office needs, but also meet our entertainment needs. Especially in China, where the game industry is so developed, if the notebook cannot play ordinary games, everyone generally I won’t consider this notebook anymore. Today, the notebook I need to introduce is actually a gaming notebook. Next, let’s take a look at the features of the Sony FZ35 and what the overall performance of this notebook is. Woolen cloth. ​

The main features of FZ35

Among the current Sony notebook home product lines, there are two series of products that have attracted a lot of attention - —If the CR series is considered to be designed for fashionable women, then the FZ series is obviously more suitable for men who pay attention to gaming performance and audio-visual entertainment experience.

Judging from the introduction of the FZ series notebooks on Sony’s official website, this is a product with a 15.4-inch LCD screen and a relatively compact body size. In other words, it has a larger display area than mainstream 14.1-inch notebooks, and is thinner, lighter and more portable than other 15.4-inch notebooks.

Recently, the FZ series has made slight adjustments to its model configurations, and the models have been fully upgraded from FZ25/FZ27/FZ28 to FZ35/FZ37/FZ38. Among them, FZ37 and FZ38 two products use the new Intel 45nm processor, thus forming the Centrino 4.5 platform. The FZ35 replaces the previous T7250 processor with T5550 and upgrades the hard drive capacity from 120GB to 160GB.

Another attractive factor of this notebook is that it is equipped with a GeForce 8400M GT discrete graphics card. Compared with the old FZ25, the FZ35 has upgraded its video memory capacity from 128MB to 256MB and its video memory width from 64bit to 128bit, which significantly improves game performance. ​

Hardware configuration and comprehensive performance test

Sony FZ35 uses Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 processor, PM965 chipset , NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT independent graphics card, single 1GB memory and 160GB hard drive, as well as DVD burner, 3945ABG wireless module and Bluetooth, etc.

Compared with the previous generation product FZ25, its CPU configuration is slightly lower. However, the graphics card and hard drive have been upgraded. In the following, you will see the comparison of the test scores of FZ25 and FZ35.

The Core 2 Duo T5550 processor is an upgraded version of the T5450. It has 1.83. GHz main frequency, 2MB L2 cache and 667MHz front-side bus. From the specification point of view, it is exactly the same as the T5600, but the interface is changed to Socket P compatible with Centrino 4.

According to our testing experience, The T5 series of processors can fully meet the needs of the vast majority of users, and the T5550, as the T5 series processor with the highest frequency, is already very efficient. Therefore, we do not necessarily have to pursue the T7 series of processors, they are just that. Only in a few very complex professional applications will it show some advantages. We should pay more attention to the workmanship and heat dissipation of the notebook when purchasing.

FZ35 is pre-installed with the Windows Vista Home Premium operating system. Through Vista’s own performance evaluation tool, we can see that the 8400M GT graphics card with GDDR3 memory and 128bit memory width performs very well, with graphics and game graphics reaching 100% respectively. 5.9 and 5.2 points. The lowest score comes from memory. You can consider adding 1GB of memory yourself, which will make it slightly smoother when running complex applications (but the score of the experience index will not be significantly improved because it focuses on memory. frequency rather than capacity)

In the PCmark05 test, the FZ35's score is also very good and very balanced. The sub-scores of memory, graphics card and hard disk all exceed 3600 points, and there are almost no system bottlenecks. .Although the processor is lower than that of FZ25, it is still the most efficient hardware in the entire platform, with a score of 4597, which is enough for most users.

The FZ35 evaluated this time uses a 160GB SATA-II hard drive from Toshiba. Its measured average read speed is 36.8MB/sec. The burst read speed is a bit slow, and the read curve It is not very stable, and the overall performance can only be said to be quite satisfactory.

Here, the editor would also like to remind my friends that this notebook was launched in 2008, and now it has been 6 years. Laptops are developing rapidly. Now it seems that this Sony FZ35 laptop is a bit behind. However, it can be used as a general office laptop. However, this laptop is positioned as a gaming laptop. At the same time, when we tested it, we found that the heat generated by this notebook was a bit high. But it’s enough for everyone to understand. Because this notebook has been discontinued.