Sony Vaio FJ170B Pictorial & Comparo to M40x -NSF56K-

Am not actually going to review it, since a very good and extensive review has already been done by abaxter here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=31066&highlight=vaio


Shall we start..





You sure don't get too much:







well, its not letting me post anymore img tags, how 1998 of them lol, so enjoy the hotlinks







Ohhh yeah, that's real nice.


Surprisingly not too much bloat.


Less than 20 mins of ownership, time to format.


size comparo










Screens.








cam quality, notice the green warning light, nice touch to cut down on emberassing situations.







Thoughts:
Lid has no lock, and the automatic hinges do a terrible job at keeping the LCD flush against the base of the

laptop, meaning unless you have a tight sleeve one, as you are transporting the laptop, your LCD will enjoy

constant banging and bouncing on the base. The hinges do however do a great job of accelerating the screen and

smacking it hard right into the laptop, unless you remember to be real careful and not let go.

Like other Vaios, none of the functionality controls (brightness, sound etc..) work unless you install the drivers.

No manual volume knob on the lappy

S-video? Hahaha ya ok.

Iffy dvdrw drive, refused to read scratched up 'Sony' dvdrw disc (onto which i burnt the drivers 2 mins before the

fact), where as 4 other PCs could read it, as well as 2 Xboxes.

Other than that, decent lappy.

 

Very nice images! We appreciate your feedback very much

I am glad to see that it didn't come with that much bloatware, compared to a Dell, etc. I would hope it wouldn't be too! Sony's cost a lot of money.

Congrats on your new machine.

 

hey T10, thanks for all those pics...we had a limit of 5 image tags per post in place. I've removed this and we'll see how it goes, it was mostly in place to be friendly to the 56k'ers out there still

 

Thanks abaxter

ChazMan421, yeah, all that stuff on the Sony is like a clean DOS install compared to what I saw on the Toshiba. The boot time was well over 3 mins (with the bloat), and the running task bar icons were into 3/4th of the screen length. My jaw dropped when I saw it lol.

 

Thought I would mention, that I was slightly harsh on the lack of s-video.

I just found out that the mini line-out jack on this machine is actually a video RCA out + L/R audio (basically same thing as most digicams use).