That's acceptable, but not especially impressive. The Vaio S landed right in the middle of the pack, running for 4 hours and 31 minutes in our video playback battery drain test.
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Midsize laptops can run the gamut from disappointing battery life to outstanding, because of the wide variety of prices, components, and battery capacities available.
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Vaio laptops always have excellent screen quality, and in this case, images and videos were clear and bright, and off-axis viewing was impressive, even looking down from above.
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The 15.5-inch display has a native resolution of 1,920x1,080 pixels, which is perfectly suited for Blu-ray and 1080p HD video. Now, it switches between a low-power and high-power mode, with the Nvidia GPU simply disabled in the lower setting, along with adjustments to screen brightness. It used to turn a Vaio laptop's discrete graphics off and on, before Nvidia developed a way to switch between GPUs on the fly. One odd holdout from an earlier era remains, the physical Speed/Stamina switch above the keyboard. I generally like click pads, but this setup (from Synaptics) felt twitchy and sometimes failed to register taps and movement, no matter how I set the sensitivity options. Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and others already use this style, which has a click zone in the lower left and right corners and two-finger scrolling for vertical navigation. The large touch pad has a pleasing matte surface and, in a big change from last year's version, the traditional left and right mouse buttons have been eliminated, leaving you with what we now call a click pad.