Would you judge coming marks an full decade since Sony spun retired its Vaio machine brand? Vaio has stood for lightweight laptops beautiful overmuch ever since — and now nan company’s announcing 1 of nan lightest-ever portable monitors to spell pinch them.
The Vaio Vision Plus 14 goes connected waste coming successful Japan arsenic a 14-inch, 1920 x 1200 USB-C show that weighs conscionable 0.72 pounds (325g). That’s little than half arsenic overmuch arsenic astir of nan monitors you’ll find successful a emblematic “best portable monitor” list and notably lighter than nan 13.3-inch, 1.08-pound (490g) Asus ZenScreen OLED MQ13AH, contempt having a larger screen.
The Vaio is besides conscionable 12.4mm heavy (0.49in) astatine its widest constituent and 3.9mm (0.15in) astatine its thinnest.
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Vaio managed nan ray weight partially pinch a skeletal creation (check retired that kickstand and broadside profile!) and partially by molding nan backmost sheet retired of c fiber, which it recovered was 33 percent lighter than aluminum and notably lighter than magnesium alloy astatine nan aforesaid rigidity.
Speaking of rigidity, nan institution claims nan Vision has been tested astatine its installation successful Japan to withstand drops, bends, and years of use. The institution claims (via Google Translate) that you tin “use it pinch bid of mind successful nan improbable arena of accent during unreserved hr aliases effect erstwhile dropped.” It besides has 5 videos to exemplify that nan show tin withstand immoderate ray torture; I’ve embedded 1 of them above.
It besides comes pinch an origami-style guidelines screen that tin raise it precocious capable to beryllium a 2nd vertical surface supra your laptop:
Image: Vaio
Like immoderate different portable monitors, you tin powerfulness this 1 from your laptop pinch a azygous included USB-C cablegram arsenic agelong arsenic it provides 10 watts — you tin additionally plug a 65W aliases higher USB-C PD powerfulness proviso into nan monitor’s 2nd USB-C larboard and complaint your laptop simultaneously. The show itself consumes astir 4W successful use, according to Vaio’s spec sheet, and it tin walk done a maximum of 60W to your laptop.
One chartless is image quality. Vaio doesn’t specify what benignant of sheet we’re talking about, and while Vaio says nan surface displays 100 percent of nan sRGB spectrum, that’s a comparatively mini colour abstraction for graphics professionals. The antiglare surface besides only hits 400 nits of brightness, which should beryllium good indoors but possibly not for an outdoor cafe.
While Vaio does waste its computers in nan US and different countries, it hasn’t yet announced if nan caller portable show will beryllium disposable extracurricular of Japan. There, it’s connected waste coming for 54,800 yen (roughly $339) and is shipping this week.