All Hype No Performance
583731
Do NOT do what I did!!  Do NOT get rid of your hard copies thinking you will have them forever saved in your program.  NOT!  Gone in a crash!
1288191
lag, boring, unbalanced. shame on you blizzard. 10 years of anticipation gone to waste. gone are you glory days. enough said.
958198
Purchased summer of 2014... used for a few months of the season.  At startup 2015, neither of the two I purchased show any sign of life.  Poor performance to say the least.
1917566
I received this ultrabook yesterday. I was very disappointed by its performance - this laptop is way too slow. I had three windows open and it keeps hanging - for about 20 to 30 seconds! It is just unacceptable for this laptop to be painfully slow. The screen is somewhat saturated. The only thing I like about this laptop is the style - it is slim and sleek. Other than that, I don't like the rest. I don't know if I got a lemon but I am returning this and will get the 13.3 inch asus zenbook touch ultrabook
1079198
Maybe I got a fluke, but Sony's so-called "full laptop" computer in an 8" form factor is like trying to run Vista on your mom's old P3. Seriously, this thing absolutely crawls. All this would be acceptable were it not for the very mediocre battery life (forget 4 hours, I couldn't even manage 2 with moderately heavy use), when any other netbook (that's right, netbook) for well under half the price outperforms it in battery life AND performance. Ironic; the 1.33Ghz processor really is a step down from the 1.66Ghz Atoms in netbooks, despite what I've been told to the contrary about the different "architecture."

But that's just on the hardware front. It powers on fast enough, but right from the get-go you're slammed with loads of bloatware and tons of programs that are slow to load into memory, one after the other (that's right, it's not even a dual core). These can be uninstalled--though not cleanly, as they leave some registry junk data behind. But there's little that can be done about yet another software-related problem: drivers. The video driver on here is one of the worst experiences I've had to date with video displays. HD video was an absolute disaster, even though the chipset (google "Poulsbo" or GMA500) claims it to be able to decode 720p HD video. So when I tried to play a simple HQ youtube vid (not even HD) and met with stuttering far worse than my friend's Asus Eee PC, which cost about 350, I was understandably upset. As for the faster disk drive with the SSD, this may be true. But when you can't run even basic productivity apps at full speed, any HD speed increase was unnoticeable. My Eee for instance has a conventional "slow" HD but gets the job done (except for copying files) much more quickly.

A lot of this might be Vista's fault. But before you think of downgrading to the faster, lighter XP, let me warn you--you'll have even more issues with Sony's drivers. Linux? Forget about it; Intel's Poulsbo drivers are in a pitiful state there too. When the most appealing attribute of the system--the hi-res screen, mind you--is nearly unusable with any other options, one can't help but feel a bit ripped off. The webcam's quality isn't very good (the Eee wins again), and the WWan (mobile broadband) is locked to Verizon, so don't think about other companies unless you "unlock" the chip: more time and trouble. The wireless-N support is supposed to be great, but it was dodgy on my home network (maybe it was just my unit or config...or vista, but again, my other devices worked fine).  They keyboard and ergonomics are fine, but again, the only good words for this unit, for this price, are surface-deep.

Parting advice: the reviews on this "Lifestyle PC" are low for good reason. I really wish I'd seen Amazon's reviews earlier. (This unit wasn't from Amazon but from Sony themselves).
483891
I played with Motion at an Apple store and was so impresssed, I immediately/spontaneously bought it. I'm running it on a first generation 2 Ghz dual processor G5 with 2 gigs of RAM and a Radeon 9600 graphic card and it is slow and sometimes doesn't render "on the fly" at all. So now I have to get a faster ($600) "recommended" video card and all will be nice according to Apple. I've purchased the highest end Apple products since the Apple II and now I am annoyed. Hey Apple, if you write software that runs slowly on your fastest professional machine - DON'T RELEASE IT!!! I must have spent $10,000 in the last year and a half on Apple products and NOW I'm burnt out. I'll stick to After Effects (which can't do what Motion does without hours of keyframing) and eliminate my "on the fly" expectations.
552934
It plods along extremely slowly when doing such a mundane task as listing my media video files on my drives. It does not multitask well at all.

Using the recommended chipset and memory.

Gigabyte FM2 Motherboard GA-F2A85X-UP4
16G Coairsair Vengence 1600
1340695
Got it today.  Clunk, clunk, clunk.  What a disappointment!!!  Way over priced for the lack of performance.  It performs like a device selling for almost half the Nexus 9's cost. Samsung Galaxy Note 10 (2014) blows it away.  Apple iPad Air does, too.  I am a software tester on these devices as well.  Plus, Android 5 is not the second coming.  Google Mail is the primary highlight.  I know there are more features that are worthy but $479 for a 8.9" tablet with 32 gig of memory and not microSD capability, this is a Google blunder.

Google has to get a new firmware out ASAP or this one is going back.  Give me my Nexus 7 over it for speed of loading programs. Switching from one step to any other process and the screen just waits and waits.  It's like the whole device has a huge down throttle that's stuck and can't s*** into high gear.
4136679
RAM installed easily, no hiccups and works as expected. Unfortunately, it did NOT improve anything through the Windows Experience Index (on my RAM)... and I mean, not at ALL. I expected this RAM to make a 'difference' but the standard Samsung RAM that I had previously installed appears to have been of no difference. CD burning speed, start up/shutdown and anything else I could think of was basically untouched by this RAM. Not sure this was worth my time, money and effort. Would offer however, that if you have around 4GB of RAM and upgrading to this 8GB, then by dynamics of the speed and headroom, I would most certainly expect a difference... However, this RAM appears to be no different than to be packaged by Corsair in a nice shiny box with a fancy 'title'. Sorry, no flair and fireworks on this RAM for my experience.

Upgraded from 6GB.

System: Win 7 Premium 64Bit AMD A6-3400M Quad-Core HP Pavilion dv7-6169nr, AMD Radeon HD6520G graphics
2937731
The fast processor and huge RAM didn't help with the performance when running Windows Vista. If you go to control panel, click system, and look at the system rating, this machine scores 3.0 out of base scores ranging from 1 to 5.9. The cheaper machine scores higher in desktop performance for having a better graphic card.
Here is a breakdown of scores for each component of this machine.
Processor (5.3), RAM (5.9), Graphics: Desktop performance for Windows Aero (3.0), Gaming graphics (3.0), Primary hard disk (5.8). The machine froze often and the computer runs super slow. It's slower than my old machine that has lower processor and less memory. I called HP and was informed that the machine came with onboard graphics chipset. If I need my computer to perform faster, they recommend to install a new graphic card. The machine can't even run youtube video or movie smoothly even I use wired cable internet. Even I reinstall the machine back to the factory setting, it didn't help at all. Worse investment that I've ever made. I now decided to buy a new  graphic card to get out of this frustration. If you don't plan to upgrade your new machine, don't waste the time. Vista needs decent graphic card to for Windows Aero. Without it, this machine performance goes down the hill.
1719150
Piece of &%$#. Slow. Several times in the first week, the display has not rendered. I have a pixelated desktop (and no, that is not the image I chose) that can only be resolved by a reboot.
2719338
Tired of getting just enough fps? The 980 Ti destroys every experience you've ever had with performance all with the fans off.
1976913
Immediately after receiving this in the mail, I tried it out and found that the Instant Gameview feature was incredibly choppy when testing it with a Wii U. A yellow message is present constantly in the top right corner of the Game Capture HD software indicating that the device is receiving fewer frames than it should. Clicking on it brings you to a page with suggestions on how to improve performance.

Only, my computer's hardware far exceeds the recommended specifications listed on Elgato's website. I have tried everything from connecting it to different USB 3.x host controllers, swapping HDMI cables, reinstalling USB 3.x drivers, Elgato software/drivers, graphics card drivers, enabling the iGPU from my BIOS, disabling Flashback Recording, and more. What puzzles me the most is the inconsistency in it's performance; sometimes the frame rate will be 50+ FPS in the preview, other times no more than 20 FPS. Sometimes the preview will be stuck a solid green color, and I'll have to either re-plug the HDMI or USB cable several times.

After several days of troubleshooting, and trying things suggested by Elgato support (to no avail unfortunately), things are looking bleak.

I will alter this review if any major updates happen or if I can somehow get it to work properly.
3437908
i ordered 6pcs of this fan,,, when i test it... fans runs too slow.. unlike my fan on my CPU... its like half the power of my fan...
first maybe its a item defect.. then i request for replacement... then again i received another batch of fans... when i tested it... all fans still the same like before....

if you want just the light .. then its good cause lights looks great and design,.but the performance is very poor...
819771
have no idea about the performance.  Ordered for an office item. Which I don't deal with.  But I have not received any compaints
4657171
I bought this APU for my first build to replace my aging Dell core2duo (2.8GHz) w/ Radeon HD6750 and finally got all the parts rounded up to actually build today.  On paper, this APU should have matched my 6750's performance and it was (still is) my intention to get a dedicated GPU but I really didn't expect to get the performance that I actually am seeing.  The first game I tested - Grid Autosport - was getting ~60FPS with 1600x900 resolution on mostly medium settings and 2xMSAA while my 6750 was struggling to get 30FPS on 1280x720.

Current build:
CPU(APU): AMD A10 7850K (obviously)
Mobo: MSI A88XM "Gaming motherboard"
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 2133 MHz
HDD: Western Digital WD Green WD20EZRX 2TB
PSU: RAIDMAX Cobra RX-700AC-B 700W
OS: Win8.1

Now I'm anxious to start rendering fractals in Apophysis to test this thing's number crunching abilities. :p
1317587
If it weren't for the lackluster CPU this would have replaced the SP3's in our office.  Too bad they skimped so badly that we couldn't even run Chrome effectively.  Shame.... with a SSD and 8GB of memory this shouldn't need a lot of horse power to run basic apps.