Design
He is no different than a standard notebook, and its finish adheres to the quality of the Sony Vaio, that is, is quite beautiful. Chiclet The keyboard is quite comfortable and the layout is very ergonomic.
The notebook only point in the question loses mobility. With 16 inches and weighing about 3.5 kg, the notebook is not as portable as we'd like. It is ideal to replace the desktop and can be transported more easily than the normal computer and / or up to a small media center at home.
Performance
With two USB 3.0 ports, Blu-Ray, 6GB Memory and Core i7 Sandy Bridge (art), and a GeForce GT 540M 1GB already provide an excellent performance. The screen is FullHD.
With a setup like this is not surprising that the notebook has a fantastic performance. To get an idea, the unit clove Geekbench 9300 points and managed to beat some records in the video conversion.
It seemed child's play to run AutoCad while Premiere CS5.5 this notebook was open on this. The laptop was not slow, it crashed and gave no signs that it was "stressing" with heavy use of multiple programs simultaneously.
One of the most powerful notebook is the quality of webcam video. Reading about it find that it uses the same technology of CyberShot cameras. Hence we know the optimal image quality.
3D
Time to test the 3D, we use a Blu-ray movie Avatar. He had a good performance, but the glasses are very heavy and uncomfortable, thanks to active matrix technology that requires glasses to be used with battery.
To try to convert 2D video to 3D, the notebook uses the nVidia 3D vision. We can say that the performance could improve significantly, especially in films with lower resolution to 1080p. In crowded scenes, the effect turns out to be a point against and some scenes to cause nausea in those who are watching also no subtitles on this notebook.
Cost-benefit
We can say that the cost-benefit is not the best. This notebook costs $ 10,000, 3D is not cheap and it is not so good.