Sony Vaio FE series

Last updated February 23, 2019

Sony Vaio FE series started in 2006 with the FE11 and ends in 2007 with the FE41.

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VAIO Corporation, which is headquartered in Azumino, Nagano in Japan, is a manufacturer that makes personal computers and smartphones. VAIO was originally a brand of Sony, introduced in 1996. Sony sold its PC business to the investment firm Japan Industrial Partners in February 2014 as part of a restructuring effort to focus on mobile devices. Sony maintains a minority stake in the new, independent company, which currently sells computers in the United States, Japan, and Brazil as well as an exclusive marketing agreement. Sony still holds the copyright trademarks for the VAIO brand and logo. Currently in the US, VAIO products are sold by Trans Cosmos America, Inc.

The FE series was designed as an entertainment notebook that is suitably portable. The FE series includes FE11, FE21, FE28, FE31, FE41 and FE48 models. They possess various types of a 15.4" 1280x800 X-Black screen either with one or two backlight lamps. It is not widely known that the type and quality of the LCD matrix has also widely varied. The FE11 (and supposedly FE21) series has a rare type of a 72% TrueColor screen whose colour reproduction quality makes it suitable for graphics applications. FE31 series possesses a low quality screen whose colour reproduction is of the market average level at best. Some improvements have been made to the FE41 series screens, which have become better but do not reach the FE11 screen quality.

It was superseded by the Sony VAIO FZ series in July 2007.

FE Series Model Number	Processor	RAM	Graphics Card	Hard Drive	OS	Spec Level
FE11
FE11H	Intel Core Duo Processor T2300	1 GB (1 GiB) 533 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7400 (256 MB (256 MiB) TurboCache)	100 GB	Windows XP Media Centre Edition	Entry Level
FE11M	Intel Core Duo Processor T2300	1 GB 533 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7400 (256 MB TurboCache)	100 GB	Windows XP Media Centre Edition	Mid-range
FE11S	Intel Core Duo Processor T2400	1 GB 533 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7400 (256 MB TurboCache)	160 GB	Windows XP Media Centre Edition	High Spec
FE21
FE21B	Intel Core Duo Processor T2300	1 GB 533 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7400 (256 MB TurboCache)	80 GB	Windows XP Media Centre Edition	Basic Level
FE21H	Intel Core Duo Processor T2300	1 GB 533 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7400 (256 MB TurboCache)	100 GB	Windows XP Media Centre Edition	Entry Level
FE21M	Intel Core Duo Processor T2300	1 GB 533 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7600 (128 MB)	160 GB	Windows XP Media Centre Edition	Mid-range
FE21S	Intel Core Duo Processor T2400	1 GB 533 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7600 (128 MB)	160 GB	Windows XP Media Centre Edition	High Spec
FE31
FE31B	Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5500	1 GB 533 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7400 (256 MB TurboCache)	80 GB	Windows XP Media Centre Edition	Basic Level
FE31H	Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5500	1 GB 533 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7400 (256 MB TurboCache)	120 GB	Windows XP Media Centre Edition	Entry Level
FE31M	Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5600	1 GB 533 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7600 (128 MB)	160 GB	Windows XP Media Centre Edition	Mid-range
FE31Z	Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5500	2 GB 533 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7600 (128 MB)	200 GB	Windows XP Media Centre Edition	Full Spec
FE41
FE41E	Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5500	1 GB 667 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7400 (256 MB TurboCache)	120 GB	Windows Vista Home Premium	Entry Level
FE41M	Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5500	2 GB 667 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7400 (256 MB TurboCache)	120 GB	Windows Vista Home Premium	Mid-range
FE41S	Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5500	2 GB 667 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7600 (128 MB)	160 GB	Windows Vista Home Premium	High spec
FE41Z	Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7200	2 GB 667 MHz (DDR2)	nVidia GeForce Go 7600 (128 MB)	200 GB	Windows Vista Home Premium	Full Spec

Nearly all the FE series machines contain a VGA (640x480) webcam, wireless A/B/G, memory stick reader and later models have Bluetooth. The VGN-FE28B does not contain a webcam.[1]

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