It can be swivelled fully to capture objects facing the screen or behind it. Images or movies can be captured at a maximum resolution of 640x480 pixels. Movies can be encoded at a frame rate of 30 fps at 320x240 pixels. But don't expect the motion eye to replace your video camera because its quality is poorer than commercial videocams. In bright daylight, image and video quality is akin to a low-end digital camera.
Images become grainy when lighting is poor, such as outdoors at night.
The Vaio will suffice for Web publishing. And it is more than adequate for, say, e-mailing images to friends. Video editing with the laptop was surprisingly nimble, thanks to the 400MHz Pentium II processor. But the standard 64MB RAM hampered performance during multitasking. Thankfully, Sony included a massive 12GB hard disk drive to let you store plenty of big files.