14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this month, Sony decided it was about time it released a couple of new all-in-one Vaio systems, so it unveiled the JS and RT series, two quite different-looking desktop computer systems that offered almost everything a user might need, in a single compact form. Now, it seems that one of these systems, namely the JS series, has already been put through its paces and has shown some promising results.
The fellows over at Cnet were pretty impressed with Sony's new product, so much so that they have placed the new Vaio JS190J All-in-One desktop PC even above Apple's iMac, in terms of features and performance per price ratio. As a matter of fact, the only things that were not so good about Sony's All-in-One was the 20.1-inch display, which was smaller than that of some of its competitors, a cheap mouse, and some redundant bundled applications. All that aside, the JS190J was said to be the best deal for an all-in-one system with Blu-ray drive.
The review unit was built on Intel's G45 Express chipset, and combined an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU running at 3GHz, with 4GB of DDR2 memory. It came with a 500GB SATA hard drive, a combo BD-ROM optical drive, card reader, built-in fax/modem, wireless 802.11 b/g/n, Gigabit Ethernet and Bluetooth connectivity, an integrated sound card, and a mouse and keyboard.
In addition, the system's graphics were handled by the built-in Intel GMA X4500HD, with a total of 1750MB of graphics memory. The 20.1-inch LCD screen delivered a maximum resolution of 1680 by 1050. All of the above came at a price tag of $1,445.98, although the system itself starts at just $999, without all the optional extras.
Compared with other All-in-One systems, including the Averatec All-in-One, HP TouchSmart IQ506, Apple's iMac and Gateway FX4710, Sony's Vaio JS190J succeeded in getting a better score in the Adobe Photoshop CS3 image-processing test, as well as in the Apple iTunes encoding test. In the Multimedia multitasking and CineBench tests, Sony's Vaio claimed the third and second spot, respectively.