Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
corteen - I have to agree with MB77. Something is wrong with your external display. The CW can output Blu Ray over HDMI at 1080p to a TV.
If you have a LCD or Plasma TV with HDMI, I would try connecting the CW to that and see if you can play a Blu Ray movie.
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Done some more tests:
Oblivion: fluent on all details maxed (HDR, no AA)
CS Source/HL2: same, but it isn't really demanding
No shutters in those two, so maybe it was game related after all?
3D mark tests, this is for CW with 230M, P4750 CPU (2.13 GHz, 1066mhz), 4GB DDR3 RAM
3D mark 2006 (standard set of tests in free version):
3D mark score: 5669
SM 2.0 score: 2391
SM3.0 score: 2334
CPU score: 1847
Vantage:
3D mark V score: N/A (test resolution of 1280x800 not supported by the screen
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GFX score:2092
In 3D mark tests, results for 2006 were OK (framerate 10-33fps and 3D mark is demanding), so 2-3 year old games should run fine with most/all settings. Vantage tests were really bad (3-10fps), and Physx test was disaster. New games should be less demanding than 3D M but I wouldnt think that you can turn on all the candies and still enjoy fluent game. Unfortunately Oblivion was the most recent game on my hdd, so I can't test anything more recent
What I really love about this laptop is that it really doesn't get hot or laud. When playing games or running 3D mark it only gets warm on the bottom left side near the vent and the central right area under the palm rest (well, that shiny part near arount touchpad) - but it never gets any warmer on the top/keyboard side. Just the bottom. Vent is very quiet and only under serious load it increases speed a bit, but still stays really quiet.
Someone asked about glare screen, is it usable outdoors. Well, at least european version isn't. It IS glare, no "antireflective" anything, period.
Keyboard was another question - I like it, was used to DELL's or Acer's and the Sony's one certainly isnt worse. I don't touch type but my wife does and she likes the keyboard more then on our other laptops. Arrow keys are a bit small, even for me and I have small hands, so it may be a problem for some people.
Build quality: feels ok. I've seen much worse but also seen better Vaios (Z for instance). Yes, battery moves a little bit but I wouldn't have noticed if I haven't read about it in one of the posts here. Overall, there is no piece of this laptop that I could point to and say "this should be done better". Could, but not should, if you know what i mean.
BIOS: in my CW it is the basic "don't change anything but the date" version.
Touchpad: Yes, it is multitouch, but implementation just sux. Sometimes it works quick, sometimes slow, sometimes when you don't want it to work. Not whether the problem is hardware or software, but as it is it's best to just disable it. That's my subjective feeling. -
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Ok then, will look at the CW tomorrow at my local dealer
@Fapuse:
-Back to noise level: you said it's quiet. Would you say as quiet as an Macbook? What is the notebook you're referring to?
-Did you try any lower resolutions under Windows 7 to prove the behavior of interpolation? What are the next two lower resolutions the driver offers? 1280x768(720?) and what else? Thx! -
I have Mac alergy so can't tell. It's as quiet as my company laptops - various IBM/lenevo/Dell models, and they are quiet. It's by far the most quiet "gaming" laptop that I have seen. By gaming I uderstand playing not so old games with detals other then low, not a serious alienware kind of gaming. Comparing to DELL XPS16/13 and my old Acer TM 8210. Running a game on each of those means fan goes berserk & + 10db. And just barely noticable fan speed increase on CW. Maybe I'll just post a video?
Haven't tried lower resolutions. I can choose:
1366x768 (native)
1360x768 (?)
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as someone mentioned above, the Sony style rep said that its for pre-configured models, but guessing he was nice he ended up giving it anyways, so im guessing its not really meant to be given but if the rep is nice enough and if you ask MAYBE they might give it to you. im gonna try it out by calling sony style and asking few people for it, maybe ill get lucky and might get it also or ill call in my local sony store and see what they say
, it would be awesome to know if anyone else got the $200 ecoupon
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@Fapuse:
Thanks for the resolutions.. You should upload a video showing the CW under stress (maybe the 3DMark06, since it does not produce sounds)?
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Tried, my camera produces more noise then this notebook!
But tested temperatures: after 30 min of running around in Oblivion CPU cores were ~60C and GPU was 50C. -
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Is it true? Really true? That's great, since I've heard that Sony has disabled VT in their Vaio, it made me be disappointed because I need to run some VT apps for my study on my new laptop, at least XP Mode in Windows 7
I'm going to buy CW16 with P8700, is it a CTO version?
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VT (Virtualization Technology) helps you run VMWare, Virtual PC, Parallels, ... I think so
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yeah Intel's Virtual Technology lets you run Virtual system like XP, which is great and needed for business users mostly im guessing as they want the newest OS but most softwares they use are XP compatible only so win7 has this built in on compatible Processors and win7 Pro. Alot of companies are still using XP and have specific softwares designed for XP only so thats when it comes in, but i mean it comes in handy for various of reasons. Im gonna use it becuase Stereo Mix has been disabled in vista and win7 ESPECIALLY SONY
they hard coded banned it so its only available in XP.
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Thanks for useful info!
I already know the P8700 CPU has VT but Sony has hidden it in the BIOS for "security reason" but electrobuzz who purchased the Vaio CW CTO version confirmed that we can enable VT in the BIOS.
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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.
