Caris Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 First things first. No anti Sony shit in here. Right 2 things about them: 1: Are they good laptop's? Ignoring the price i have seen a good deal at my local Currys. Like build quality, known problems etc. 2: When it come's to formatting them, do they come with a Driver CD and a Vista CD or do they have this Restore shit built into them. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmellow Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Whoa Caris why aren't you a staff member no more? Your name looks empty without green. But for Sony laptops, if you ignore the price, they look damned good. They have very high quality portable laptops. Didn't you just buy an Apple computer or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caris Posted September 3, 2007 Author Share Posted September 3, 2007 I had my Mac since Chirstmas, but want a laptop for collage. Cheers for the advice though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Sony Vaio's main problem is the software that comes with it. There is a tonne of bloatware that you'll wanna strip straight off the disk. I did it with my Packard Bell. Usually, its cheaper for manufactuers just to stick a partition on the HDD with an emergency back up on it rather than you getting a Windows and driver disk. Which is a joke, since you're paying for a copy of Windows, all you get a sticker with a number on it. Hardware wise, they're great. If a little showy, so you might wanna be careful you don't get it stolen, that and from personal experience they either scratch easily or have finger printy plastic like the PS3. But if you can deal with that, then yeah, if you can justify paying a little more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caris Posted September 3, 2007 Author Share Posted September 3, 2007 So i could just use my OEM Vista premium disk and download the drivers from Sony's site like a normal format? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 So i could just use my OEM Vista premium disk and download the drivers from Sony's site like a normal format? Yeah, that should work as long as you don't boot into Windows the first time you power up, since it'll want to register, then it gets locked to that installation and no other. Which utterly fails. Seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanchez Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Why are you ignoring the price? From my experience Sony's have the worst price to performance ratio in the industry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKOB Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Why are you ignoring the price? From my experience Sony's have the worst price to performance ratio in the industry. I have to agree, everybody i know with a vaio has had to send it away to be repaired. Not an overstatement. However, all 4 of them had what looked to me to be essentially the same model so i should imagine Sony have sorted their shit out since. That model seemed to have lots of problems with it's headphone jack and other more random ones, such as motherboard damage that was probably the users fault, despite what he says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caris Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 Why are you ignoring the price? From my experience Sony's have the worst price to performance ratio in the industry. Because is super cheap, It's reduced by £300 and the store is moving so there's an extra 20% off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKOB Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Because is super cheap, It's reduced by £300 and the store is moving so there's an extra 20% off. Mmmmmm Bargains ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhee Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Get a model number m8, not all Sonys are born equal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caris Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 It's this but alot cheaper. http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=401552 Also, what do you mean Jordan about not booting up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 It's this but alot cheaper. http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=401552 Also, what do you mean Jordan about not booting up? Like, not booting into Windows. Just popping your Vista DVD and booting off that, then formatting the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellfire Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 The new ones have a new battery I suppose, but the old models had atrocious ones, but I think they were forced legally to replace them for better batteries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaggis Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 That's one of the laptops I'm looking at getting. I just wish the battery life was a bit better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caris Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 Like, not booting into Windows. Just popping your Vista DVD and booting off that, then formatting the drive. Yeah i get that, i just mean what the registering thing does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Yeah i get that, i just mean what the registering thing does? Basically, if its anything like my Packard Bell, as soon as you register your name/address etc to the laptop, it basically stops you from using that serial code on another installation. Unless you ring up their tech support for whatever reason. I don't know why mine did this, but i didn't want XP Home, so i just used Pro SP2 till Vista came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caris Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 Meh, didn't get it. Went back up to have another look and it just didn't seem as nice this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caris Posted September 6, 2007 Author Share Posted September 6, 2007 Sorry to bump this thread but i thought it would be better than making a new one. What do people think of this? http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Asus_F3SC-AP113C_F3SC-AP113C/version-1.asp I've heard good things about Asus laptop's and the specs for price seems really good. Not sure about the GPU though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhee Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 The graphics card is pretty meh Taken from Tom's Hardware. Basically you ain't gonna be playing many (if any) games on it, and despite the name it isn't a DX10 card. To put it in perspective, my 2 year old £700 laptop has an Mobility X700, which sits 3 levels above the Go 8400 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caris Posted September 6, 2007 Author Share Posted September 6, 2007 It's not for games, it's for video editing/photoshop. Mabey a few older games like CSS WoW things like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKOB Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Why do you want a laptop for video editing and photoshop when your iMac will do a better job of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhee Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 What about this one? http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Asus_A8JR_Laptop_A8JR-4P072C/version.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caris Posted September 6, 2007 Author Share Posted September 6, 2007 Why do you want a laptop for video editing and photoshop when your iMac will do a better job of it? Because i can't take a imac to collage in my bag haha. EDIT, that was the other i was looking at Phee, but i hear people say don't go ATI in laptops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McPhee Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 People say that because mobile ATI graphics cards share the system RAM. This can cause problems, because it effectively lowers you're system RAM in graphically intense situations. In this situation though the point is pretty moot. The card has 256MB of RAM to play with before it even needs to look at the system RAM, then another 2GB of that to share. It's unlikely it will need to share RAM very often and even if it does there should be a fair amount going unused in 2GB! I don't actually agree with these "don't go ATI" comments though, mobile ATI cards tend to be faster. Sure they guzzle RAM, but thats the upgradable part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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