At 0.72 pounds, Vaio’s first portable monitor is one of the lightest ever

Would you judge contiguous marks an full decennary since Sony spun retired its Vaio machine brand? Vaio has stood for lightweight laptops beauteous overmuch ever since — and present the company’s announcing 1 of the lightest-ever portable monitors to spell with them.

The Vaio Vision Plus 14 goes connected merchantability contiguous successful Japan arsenic a 14-inch, 1920 x 1200 USB-C show that weighs conscionable 0.72 pounds (325g). That’s little than fractional arsenic overmuch arsenic astir of the monitors you’ll find successful a emblematic “best portable monitor” list and notably lighter than the 13.3-inch, 1.08-pound (490g) Asus ZenScreen OLED MQ13AH, contempt having a larger screen.

The Vaio is besides conscionable 12.4mm heavy (0.49in) astatine its widest constituent and 3.9mm (0.15in) astatine its thinnest.

Vaio managed the airy value partially with a skeletal plan (check retired that kickstand and broadside profile!) and partially by molding the backmost sheet retired of c fiber, which it recovered was 33 percent lighter than aluminum and notably lighter than magnesium alloy astatine the aforesaid rigidity.

Speaking of rigidity, the institution claims the Vision has been tested astatine its installation successful Japan to withstand drops, bends, and years of use. The institution claims (via Google Translate) that you tin “use it with bid of caput successful the improbable lawsuit of accent during unreserved hr oregon interaction erstwhile dropped.” It besides has 5 videos to exemplify that the show tin withstand immoderate airy torture; I’ve embedded 1 of them above.

It besides comes with an origami-style basal screen that tin rise it precocious capable to beryllium a 2nd vertical surface supra your laptop:

Like immoderate different portable monitors, you tin powerfulness this 1 from your laptop with a azygous included USB-C cablegram arsenic agelong arsenic it provides 10 watts — you tin additionally plug a 65W oregon higher USB-C PD powerfulness proviso into the monitor’s 2nd USB-C larboard and complaint your laptop simultaneously. The show itself consumes astir 4W successful use, according to Vaio’s spec sheet, and it tin walk done a maximum of 60W to your laptop.

One chartless is representation quality. Vaio doesn’t specify what benignant of sheet we’re talking about, and portion Vaio says the surface displays 100 percent of the sRGB spectrum, that’s a comparatively tiny colour abstraction for graphics professionals. The antiglare surface besides lone hits 400 nits of brightness, which should beryllium good indoors but possibly not for an outdoor cafe.

While Vaio does merchantability its computers in the US and different countries, it hasn’t yet announced if the caller portable show volition beryllium disposable extracurricular of Japan. There, it’s connected merchantability contiguous for 54,800 yen (roughly $339) and is shipping this week.