Sony Vaio EH2C0E/L review

Each key has a light, crisp action which provides good feedback, although there’s a bit of wobble and the keys’ flat, smooth surface meant that our fingertips sometimes slipped off them. The left Shift key is far too narrow, and we found ourselves hitting the neighbouring Backslash key. The touchpad’s a bit small too, but we got used to its textured surface quickly, finding it quite responsive.

Being a Sony, you get two memory card slots: one for Sony’s own Memory Stick format and one for the more common SD card. There are also four USB ports, although none uses the faster USB3 standard. As usual, there’s a hardware wireless switch that toggles both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, which is handy.

If you’re not going to do any serious number-crunching or multimedia editing, the EH2C0E/L has adequate performance, and its bright, clear screen and comfortable keyboard make it a pleasure to use. The Samsung RV520, however, has a faster processor and a larger hard disk, but only costs £20 more.