The chassis doesn't bend noticeably when force is applied, the hinges are smooth and strong, but we did notice some 'clicking' when we applied pressure to the screen's lid. It feels very sturdy, yet light and well balanced. The chassis and lid are constructed out of aluminium and the notebook weighs just under 1.5kg. Once the battery is removed, you can then remove the access panel to get to the memory slot and SATA drive bay.
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We definitely like the way that the VAIO T Series can be fairly easily upgraded. A little right-angled adapter is used to plug in to the SATA port, which means that to remove the existing drive, you have to pull up rather than slide the drive.
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It's worth noting that once you remove the battery, you can also remove the access panel, which allows you to access the free memory slot and the SATA drive bay, which accepts 2.5in drives that are up to 7mm thick. With a sensible power management plan, you could get even more out of it (depending on what your workload is). When we used the laptop with a low screen brightness for basic Web browsing, we got well over five hours of life out of it. That's not bad at all for a Core i7-based laptop. This result eclipses that of other recent Ultrabooks we've seen, by over one hour in most cases. In our rundown test, in which we disable power management, enable Wi-Fi, maximise screen brightness and loop an Xvid-encoded video, the battery lasted 4hr 30min. It's a 45 Watt-hour battery and it can supply the laptop with a long life away from an outlet. It's held by three screws and can be relatively easily removed if you ever need to replace it or potentially plug in a spare while you're travelling. While most Ultrabooks have a battery that's enclosed in the chassis and hard to replace, Sony has made the battery removable in the T Series. In our own file duplication tests, the T Series' SSD put up a rate of 152.3MBps, which is excellent and only 10MBps slower than the HP Ultrabook. The read rate surpasses what we've seen from other Ultrabooks with fast 128GB SSDs, such as the HP Envy Spectre XT, and the write rate is only around 20MB shy of what that Ultrabook recorded. Its 128GB SSD recorded a CrystalDiskMark result of 466.7 megabytes per second (MBps) for reading and 238.1MBps for writing. Where the T Series really performed well was in our storage tests. However, it was much slower than the ASUS in 3DMark06, reaching a mark of only 4085, when it should have got over 5000 (the ASUS got 5150). All of these results are identical to the results posted by the ASUS Zenbook Prime UX31A Ultrabook, which uses the same CPU and has the same amount of RAM. In our Blender 3D rendering test, a time of 42sec was achieved in our iTunes MP3 encoding test, a time of 48sec was recorded, while our AutoGordianKnot DVD-to-Xvid conversion test took 50min to complete. It's a good configuration for a thin and light laptop, and it provided fast results in most of our benchmarks. It's joined by 4GB of DDR3 SDRAM (which is 1333MHz instead of 1600Mhz unfortunately), integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics and a 128GB solid state drive (SSD). As we mentioned in the introduction, the Sony VAIO T Series SVT13116FGS comes with a third generation Intel Core i7-3517U processor, which makes it one of the high-end models of the T Series range.
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