Sony VAIO Tap 21 Multitouch Mobile Desktop Review

Name: Sony VAIO Tap 21 Multitouch Mobile Desktop Review
Brand: Sony

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, February 04, 2014, 12:00 PM EDT

Before bringing this article to a close, we'd like to cover a few final data points--namely, power consumption and noise. Throughout all of our benchmarking and testing, we monitored acoustics and tracked how much power our test system was consuming using a power meter. Our goal was to give you an idea of how much power each configuration used while idling and also while under a heavy workload. Please keep in mind that we were testing total system power consumption at the outlet here, not of an individual component.

Total System Power Consumption

Tested at the Outlet

The Sony VAIO Tap 2 sips power. The full system--including the screen no less--consumed only 51 watts under load. At idle, the system consumed only 21 watts. And if you let the machine idle to the point where the screen shuts down, that number drops all the way down to only 7 watts.

With power consumption so low, it should come as no surprise that the Sony VAIO Tap 21 is virtually silent. There is a fan in the system that can be heard in a quiet room when it spins up, but this machine is as quiet as an actively-cooled rig can get.

Tags: Sony, Mobile, Desktop, VAIO, system, touch, Tap 21

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com