After getting tired with my old Acer Travelmate 3274WXMi and its slow hard disk problem (it took almost 5 minutes to start the computer and another 5 minutes just to shut it down!), I finally bought a new laptop five days ago. Since I’ve been dreaming of a widescreen notebook, my choice came to this Sony Vaio VGN-FW139E/H which has a nice 16.4-inch display and a resolution of 1600 x 900 with support for 1080p Full HD resolution. Gorgeous, isn’t it?

The beautiful FW139E/H machine is powered by a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 processor, a Mobile Intel PM45 Express chipset, a 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 graphics engine, and a 3GB of DDR2 SDRAM. This combination of core hardware is perfect for my needs — web design, 2D graphics design, gaming, sound editing, and of course, web browsing. For the latter purpose, the laptop comes with a great 802.11a/b/g/n WiFI connectivity, but unfortunately, not for the original part of Intel Centrino 2 platform (Intel WiFI Link 5100), instead, the one from Atheros. I’d also use this gray-colored notebook for listening to the music and watching satellite TV broadcast. Yes, no video, I prefer to watch movie on my LCD TV.

Other features include a 250GB of SATA HDD, a DVD SuperMulti burner, a 2-in-1 media card reader (SD / Memory Stick Duo), an integrated 1.3 megapixel webcam module, built-in 56kbps modem, Ethernet LAN, a Li-Ion battery that lasts for two and a half hours (its specs sheet mentioned up to 4 hours battery life though), and pre-installed Windows Vista Home Premium operating system. It weighs 6.6lbs and measures 15.1 x 10.3 x 1.5-inch.

Oh btw, VAIO VGN-FW139E/H notebook has Vista’s perfomance index score of 4.7. Not bad, right? If you want to buy it, the price is around $1,299 – $1,399.

Want to see my current widescreen wallpapers?