The Vaio may be thin and light, but it’s short on ports. The left side includes an HDMI-out port, a headphone/mic jack and an SD card slot, and the right side contains two USB 3.0 ports. We would have preferred at least one more USB port for peripherals, if not a USB Type-C port to future-proof the device.
The keyboard on the Vaio is inexcusable for a premium product. With just 1.04 millimeters of travel, the keyboard felt flat, mushy and uncomfortable. I typed at 102 words per minute on the 10fastfingers.com typing test, which is at the low end of my 100-to-110-wpm range, but my mistakes skyrocketed. While I usually have an error rate of 1 or 2 percent, it jumped to 5 percent on the Vaio