Official VAIO SR Series Owners Thread

Hello everyone. Sorry if keep on rambling. I think I am beginning to sound like Andy Roonie.

I do have to say that the speaker on the SR is not as loud as on the Z. But you cant expect much out of a laptop. We dont even have room for most things. I mean if I am at home I would just put it on my 24" LCD monitor and hook up my wireless keyboard and mouse and jack in the audio port to a BOSE speakers and forget about the SR.

The other thing is my new SR is woobley on the bottom right. Now I had to put 20 stack sticky notes to keep it from rumbling.

Did this happen to you?

 

laptop is wobbly 20 stack sticky notes? what the hell?????????

 

Mine doesn't do that, its even worse- mine slips!

 

How do you mean wobbly and put notes where?

 

I think one pad is missing from your notebook.

 

Sorry, I thought you all know what I try to stay.

I put like 20 stacks of sticky notes on the bottom right of my laptop to keep it from woobling!

Here, the proof is in the pudding: http://yfrog.com/1371190238j

 

theres def something wrong there, shouldnt have to do that
is that the SR430 from j&r, it looks super thick....can i see more pics? hopefully it was just the angle of the pic, i got the grey one from j&r on tuesday, but its still in submitted status

 

I dont know. I think I am going to keep it. At least there are no dead pixel.

It is from J&R. It is not that thick. It just a little thicker and little heavier than the Z.

Since its Made in China, is that why?

When you get it, you check it out and let us know if yours wobble. Are you going to put in a bigger hard drive and do a clean retail Vista install?

 

I think you might be missing one of those rubber paws. And yeah, that does look sort of... weird for an SR, although it might be just the perspective.

 

im gonna put on windows 7 when it get it, hard drive i big enough, not touching that

 

I am downloading Window 7 now. Big brother MSFT released it to Technet and MSDN subscribers today.

I wonder how much longer before Sony will put the W7 drivers out there.

From what I read, the drivers for Vista and Window 7 are similiar. I am always wrong.

 

anyone know a quick way to make a drivers and recovery disc for the sr430 so i can wipe it and put windows 7 64 asap?

 

There's a thread on this forum that allows for semi clean install. It shows you where to backup your stuff and make a recovery disk. I would then just wipe out the windows vista and install win 7. However I would download win7 drivers online first. Best of luck!

 

yeah i dont need to do the semi clean install i just wanna format, is there an option in the sony software for a recovery disc?

 

it gives you instructions for how to backup and which drivers to save. you don't have to do a semi-clean per their instructions but follow their backup methods and do a clean install with win 7. good luck, hope that helps!

 

Sony recovery center, create recovery disk, load Win7 to usb stick, boot into bios, set to boot from usb stick, install.

 

yea you can use vista drivers, works fine

 

gotcha, why do i gotta boot from USB stick though, cant i do CD ROM? lol

 

don't know why you would want to install from dvd over usb. But ok, if you want to use the antiquated approach, burn to dvd, wait half an hour, install.

 

Estimated time on OS...just looked at the battery icon where it estimates the percentage as well as hour and minutes.

I havn't timed it yet, but it seems to go down pretty fast. I will time it by using my clock next time...I'll get the 9 cell battery down the road as this is my road traveler while in school.

 

Also, for those talkin about the weak speakrs, there is drop down menu where you can change it to live, classical, pop, rock etc. It sort of helps a little and increase some bass.

My other Dell blows these speakers away, and I do like to listen to talkradiolive radio hosts, so that kinda sucks, but the volume is clean and I can hear it decently.

I also agree in how you can put the volume controls up in the mode settings. I know there is a mute, but to change the volume up top would make it real convenient.

 

Why use the mode settings for volume when Fn + F2/3/4 does it?

 

Somebody else was asking about it, and I to was interested. My Dell has it and its so convenient and instant w/o having to look for two tiny dark buttons in the dark each time..

 

Touch typists FTW

 

Exactly. No backlighting on this keyboard sucks however if I could just use those buttons on top, it would be super helpful. Would prevent any embarrassment if I was playing some pop tunes in public!

 

Anyone know where to get this in Australia for less that $2300?

 

I notice computers and electronics are cheaper in USA than any other country in the world.

 

That's very true.....actually much cheaper.

 

So what is the reason?

 

i'm guessing we are the biggest purchaser in the world. VOLUME DISCOUNT! Just a guess...

 

Question for people that installed Win7 on their Vaio. Does recovery partion get deleted?

 

nope, it is still there unless you format it yourself, or delete it

 

Exchange rate (X 1.2) + shipping (+$50) + import taxes (+~$300) + low population rape everything Australia.

 

I really don't know.

 

I'd say its because we're on the other side of the world where dragons live. Also population wise, we're very small, so the market is much smaller. These two things generally raise the price on these things. Still, what a country to live in

 

The issue of why the things cost so much more, say, here in Europe than in America comes basically (in a REALLY simplistic way) down to that they simply can. The prices are at a point where supply and demand meet. They're at the point where the most people will buy them with the maximum amount of money they can get.

Basic market economy, really.

 

I just spoke with a salesperson at Sonystyle in Sweden. When I explained the problem with the models (either you get T6400+R4570 or you get P8800+R3470), she said that I should wait for the new 50-series models comming in the "autumn". She didn't have any specifications on those though.

Does anyone here know anything more about the 50-series?

I really hope they make a performance model in scandinavia, with more color options. I would also like to see gigabit ethernet and an extra usb-port. Backlit keyboard would be nice too

 

are you able to use it? (for restore)

 

Did anyone try this?

 

Yeah, why use money and bicycles when you can use kangaroos instead?

 

Anyone?

 

SR430 just came in the mail, im gonna go make a recovery disc and then put windows 7 on it

 

I could've sworn I read earlier in this thread that it won't support output to a higher-res screen (won't show it correctly, anyways). Which sounds lame, but could that be the problem?

 

well, it does output 1080p but I doesn't show it correctly. It's borders are trimmed so only center is visible.

 

Can you let us know how it goes and if you have any trouble with the Vista drivers.

 

It looks something like this. Only blue part is visible. Anyone has or had this problem?



This is simulation.

 

can someone write a guide on how to install win 7 on an sr? I installed win 7 rtm successfully for my fe880e, but i don't want to do it on the sr unless i'm sure all the drivers will work correctly.

thanks.

 

wait are you kidding me, nobody has got 1080p output to the TV to work?!!

 

ill be installing 7 tonight so ill let you guys know

but if i cant get 1080p working............

 

camera on sr is still not working on rtm