Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
Actually, I think "Royal Indigo" looks pretty good in these pictures. I wonder why it is supposed to be unpopular...Not that I am unhappy with my red CW, but hey.
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Any chance you'd be willing to take some photos yourself of your Red CW? :]
I'm planning to buy one in red, but I'm not exactly sure if the color is right. Seems a bit too feminine on Sony's site
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OK so here's my findings over the last day
Temps for the CW; It's an amazing laptop when it comes to temperature. The cpu, gpu and harddrive all idle at around 30-40 degrees. Even with the GPU overclocked to clock 500mhz, memory 816mhz, and shader-1278mhz, under load it still manages to keep it below 65c, and the p8700 never goes above 55c. Would i be able to overclock the 230m any more or would that be pushing it?
As for outside case temperature, the only places that get slightly warm(and i mean just slighty ), on the very front edge underneath the touchpad, and just underneath the vent. Everywhere else is room temperature feeling. The fan is VERY quiet even under load. Most of the time doing light tasks like web browsing, the fan doesnt spin.
As for the display, i think its actually quite good. It's bloody BRIGHT. Fair enough the blacks are slighty more grey than "black", but its not as bad as people make out. When i first turned it on the colours were very off, and washed out. I dunno why sony chose to use their own colour profiles because it makes the display look like crap. However once it has been tweaked it is fine.
The keyboard is great, although it takes some getting used to if you come from one that has dedicated PG up/down, home and end buttons. The touchpad is excellent. it doesnt lag, and has a nice texture, but i think the multitouch gestures are more gimmicky than useful. I just cant seem to get it to zoom in and out on pictures correctly. It'll zoom in, then you continue to zoom in further, it'll zoom out. annoying. Maybe i'm not doing it right Good thing the side scrolling still works
The pictures on the internet make it look really really chunky. Well it isnt It's actually fairly slim. It's quite big at the back, but its no bigger than standard 15.4inch laptops at the back.
The jet black looks great. My only gripe is that ive got minor sratches from cleaning the palm rest... with a microfibre cloth... it scatches too easily.
The only thing i have found quite a dissappointment are the speakers; they're not horrible, but they just lack oooomph. There isn't even just a hint of ooomph. theyre all "voice" and no bass. However they wouldnt have stopped me buying this laptop though, i use headphones 99% of the time anyway. I suppose they are ok for youtube or casual music listening.
When i first turned it on, there was ALOT of stuff installed: About 100 programs, 27 of which fall under the name VAIO . It made it slow at first, but ive only removed about 10 and it seems to have speeded it up quite alot
. I also changed most of the VAIO services to start manually and not automatically. So its fast, but only when it has been tweaked and sorted
I know it's only the bios, but there is nothing to change at all. The only things you can change are a password, date and time, virtualisation, boot order and the save/exit things. It would have been nice to have a bit more.
I'll post some pictures later I havent got a camera at the moment
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ok so my system just crashed... (this was before changing what you said to 900). at the first the screen like froze, but the music was playing still... just very very slow, and then i got a bluescreen. when i booted my cw back up i got a message in the action center saying that the GPU had crashed, it had the same timestamp as the current time though and not a few minutes ago...
so was this due to overclocking or was it a unrelated system crash?
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they were set at: 575mhz clock, 816mhz memory, and 1276mhz shader... ive toned the clock and shader down a little to 550 and 1100
but WOW the performance for a 14inch laptop.... amazing
if i post a list of programs installed, would someone be willing to tell me what isnt nessessary? i'm not sure what half of the sony ones even do
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strange, try to re-install firefox, if it still doesnt go away then either google the problem or email firefox about it
woops read ur post wrong
sorry about that, hmm umm google it, it might a glitch with IE
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i have just had this problem literally 10minutes ago. i downloaded ccleaner and removed all internet cookies, history etc (couldnt do it in IE because it would not load up) and then restarted the computer. its working now
Edit: sorry ive read what you said wrong, you mean you get the recovered tabs at startup... ive had this before on my old laptop but it just went away... tried resetting internet explorer? -
To think the 230m equals the likes of 9700m gt, and even 8600m gt in sli, which were hardly ever(or even never) seen in small laptops. Tech moves so fast. hopefully in the near future we will see power crammed into notebooks
Gotta love sony like; great craftmanship, design, cooling and performance, just maybe sometimes not price
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i got another bluescreen last night. only this time i didnt have the gpu overclocked :S i reset it to stock incase this happened again, but it still did.
i managed to get some info off the bluescreen. it was something about it was shut down because of a driver buffer overflow that could allow malicious code to be run.
is there a driver update for the 230m? i tried downloading off nvidias website but it says it isnt supported. has sony released a driver update? i cant find a newer one on the uk support website
help appreciated
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when do you get your BSODs?
I get them returning from sleep
Mine relates to an nvidia problem but I have updated to the newest drivers from sony and still get it. I wish we could use standard nvidia drivers.
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i'm actually not sure, they are just random... but maybe it has something to do with the sleep function, as i did have it in sleep before the bsod
i see you have updated drivers from sony. i did this hoping it wouldnt happen again, but thats obviously a lie since it has to you GOD why cant nvidias be used... such a pain in the
i also cant make a recovery disk right now, since i only had 2 DVD DL disks, and it has made an error on the first one, and told me to discard it
i dont think it's a hardware error, i think it's more sony's ty drivers than anything else. i have noticed though that it never happens in games, it's only when doing light stuff. AGH. CONFUSED
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please report back they do work
i've got some single layer discs, they just don't have cases. i suppose i could use the cases off the dual-layer ones instead.
wish i had a copy of windows 7 pro, at the time when the homepremium was only £45 i ordered that, but i shud have ordered the pro for £80. the bloat on this is ridiculous but i dont fancy losing features for ther extra £50 i payed for pro.
I feel as if the bluescreen is gonna happen any second. it's ,making me weary of doing my coursework on it.... Does nvidia tools use specific drivers alonside the graphics drivers to change the frequencies to overclock? if it does then would it not be them causing the problem? usually if windows 7/vista has a graphics driver problem it just resets it, not cause a bluescreen
AGH pure confused
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Looks like it.
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And here is some more. Not in stores as of now. Only available to have shipped.
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Official Sony Vaio CW Core 2 Duo Series Owner's Thread
Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony Owners' Lounge Forum' started by RayStar, Oct 22, 2009.
