Sony CW i3/i5/i7 Official Owners Thread

Heres a slightly cheaper piece of plastic: http://cgi.ebay.com/Protector-Body-...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2558b24823

 

Hello!
I just bought this laptop around a week ago, i really love it but the display and the "lid" is very fragile!!!

Do you have the same issue?, I'm affraid to take it!

 

oh dear.... so it remains unplayable even in med settings!

15-25 is just simply unplayable! (to me)

 

Slaughter,

When you did installed your SSD how did you get your image from the factory drive onto your SSD? Or did you just start from scratch and rebuild the SSD from a custom install?

Also how is your SSD performing? Ive been looking into buying one and was mainly concerned with compatibility and trying to preserve the sony recovery partition. Also do you have to do anything special to enable TRIM support for it?

 

If you look anything like your avatar then you are smokin hot!!!!

 

Can any1 tell me how to use the virtual machine or sumthing like it to install Mac OS X on the machine? i tried insatlling it bt cudnt get it to boot as i already hav 3 primary partitions on my HDD...........

 

Hey Fellas. I'm having an issue(most likely user error) with EVGA Precision. After I set my settings I click apply and instead of keeping what I set it goes back to the default settings for my gpu. Anyone have a solution or experience this??

 

some how i figured it out. oc'd to 600/1320/740, played Left4dead 2 on high settings, 1600x900 and got anywhere from 50-60 fps and temp stayed around 60-62. I'm loving the 330m!

 

I'm waiting since 2 month to buy this laptop (cw27fx) but I'm leaving in Canada and Bestbuy.ca only sell core3 model!! And not possible to buy on bestbuy.com (they not ship to canada) There's another site where I can buy it ?

The only alternative here it's the samsung r480 sith core5, gt330m but build quality inferior, small touchpad, etc.

I don't understand why I can't buy a cw with all option I want on sonystyle.ca (and I know it's the same thing on sonystyle.com) Sony don't want to sell this laptop full equiped ? They want we buy the new Z at 2000$ !?

 

I was looking for the latest NVIDIA driver to use and stumbled across this:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7551



I want to update the driver, not bake the hardware!

 

JR.com or you can get one from me.

 

Sorry if this is a dumb question. I've done some searches and only managed to find very old threads. Do the CWs support HDCP so that I can hook up to TV with HDMI to watch movies? In the specs on a site where I was gong to buy it says non-HDCP compliant, but I was a bit surprised given that laptops on there from Acer were HDCP compliant. Does Sony avoid HDCP for some reason?

Thanks
S.

 

I just popped in the SSD and did a clean install. I made recovery discs from my OEM HDD just in case, but I'll be doing clean installs if I ever need to format.

The SSD is great but to be honest, the performance isn't night and day like some claimed. My boot time is like 20 seconds and my program installations are much faster now but besides that I haven't really noticed a crazy difference. I don't really have any intense programs installed right now though so perhaps that's why. All I've been doing so far is word processing and web browsing so everything's fast regardless.

 

I've had my 27X for a month now and am loving it. Having some issue with touchpad accidently zooming in on Chrome with one finger, but waiting for updated drivers and final clean install guide on this forum. Anybody working on this?

 

At least with the stock drivers, my settings get reduced to stock when the laptop is not plugged in.

 

I bought this screen protector for my cw: http://www.sgpstore.com/product_info.php/products_id/1182

It works great. the screen is no longer glossy, i managed to get rid of all of the air bubbles and everything looks awesome =D

 

Omg that's awesome! do you play mw2? Still waiting
for people to try it on native resolution on high settings

 

HOLY CRAP! That's alot of crapware.......

And i'm getting error's trying to uninstall stuff.... Looks like it's a clean install after all. So much for getting to use my new laptop xD
(now where they heck do i get a Windows 7 disc? can i burn one off the HDD some how??)

 

Here you go http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=450641 make sure you make recovery disks before doing the clean install so you don't lose windvd bd. Good luck.

 

LOL this is too funny. I'm hoping your referring to preventing any hacking and not degradation of the system files

 

What do you even mean? "Fragile" is subjective.

Can you post photos with different things (bright/dark) on the screen? Maybe outdoors?

This seems like a good thing if it's simple to install and helps with glare. I especially would like it if it just helped keep the screen clean and prevent scratches.

 

I'm waiting on a film to protect the palmrest and lid.

 

@Vvicioustruth or other

Did you try to install mac OSX on I5. I just got my Vaio CW and I'm looking for information thanks!!!!

 

is there an outlet store that sells the CW i5/330m configuration preferably in the LA area?

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...Category=31534&_trkparms=algo=LVI&its=I&otn=1

or brand name:

http://www.zagg.com/invisibleshield/sony-vaio-cw-series-cases-covers-skins-shields.php

 

it won't work until Apple updates for i5/i3 chips. Once that happens it should work fine, due to the artheros wifi card.

nope, only online retailers

 

If your referring to the fact that the lid bends inward an incredible amount with even the slightest bit of pressure...yes, mine has that too. Its more than a little unnerving.

 

odd, neither of mine do...

 

that's the point!, is unnerving as you said

 

Question: Has anyone installed Linux Mint successfully onto their CW?

 

The heck!!?? I swear like 5 pages ago there was a link on zagg for them to make one for the CW. No way they already did within less than a week?

Can we be sure this will fit our model? If so, I'm jumping on it tonight!

 

Oh well, it looks like it is right!

I used the coupon code : Protect20 and got 20% off and free shipping. $34 /w tax total. I'll post some pics when I receive it!

 

Thanks for the coupon code! Just ordered myself!

 

I don't think it'll look odd if I leave the stickers on right?
I just hope it looks flush. I like the stickers

 

It will look like there is a clear plastic film over it.....

 

Dunno about Mint, but i installed Kubuntu on mine and it works fine enough.
The installation didnt have any problems either.

 

Pop on over to my Battery Drain thread, i think i figured out what the problem is.

 

I'm curious about everyone's fan noise. My fan isn't excessively loud but it does come on quite a bit even though my temperatures are just fine. Just kinda annoying I guess...I don't recall the fan coming on nearly this much in the first gen CW, if ever.

 

how thick is this laptop? Is it bulky?

 

Is there a big difference in speed if Im using 3gb of ram?I can only get the stock configuration of 3gb ram here.Win 7 is capable of seeing all 4gb of ram right?How many ram slots does the CW have and is it easy to self install your own rams.

 

I upgraded from 3GB to 4GB a few days ago, and sincerely, there is no difference in my everyday use.

PD: I'm running Windows 7 64-Bit

 

Hi CWers,

Is it just me, or does your C26/27's harddrive never shut up? I mean the HDD LED is always blinking, I can't get the thing to stop. No programs are running, just system and systray processes.

What bloatware is causing this, or is it the nature of Win7 in general?

A video to demonstrate it:

 

Maybe your temps are fine because of the fans.

Some say it's bulky, others are fine with it. Dimensions can be seen on the Newegg.com listing of the same model (CW27). To compare and give you a feel, try using SizeEasy.com.

In my opinion, a little bulkiness may help with airflow, which may help with temperature control....but that's just my non-technical thinking. I don't know if this is true or even makes a difference.

Many have noted the same thing. I believe it also happens after a clean install. It could just be the way it is with Windows. Some suggest turning off "file indexing" though others say this is not the source.

Either way, it's "normal" so probably not a defect or a reason to turn, if that's what you were thinking and planning to do.

 

I don't see why it's not easy. It's just a matter of making the mold to cut it. Seems easy as pie.


I might jump in on this. The super glossy exterior just makes me a bit antsy. I've already got a tiny scratch on the palm rest. Very irritating as nothing other than my palm is on it.

 

I'm yet to scratch mine....that is why I am being very careful these next few days!

 

Has anyone upgraded their HDD to 7200 rpm? If so, how much of a difference does it make as far as boot time and overall performance? thanks.

 

Overall day-to-day performance you probably won't see much difference. Someone posted their experience with a SSD, and the post said the main difference was seen when installing programs and booting up.

With that said, you can probably get an idea of how much difference it would be changing from a 5400 to a 7200 HDD. Virus scanning, copying files, and such can be beneficial to the upgrade, but other than than, I personally don't see much hurry to upgrade.

 

Thanks for this! I thought it was only me (or in this case, my brother) who noticed the tiny sound that came from what he surmised to be the fan! At least, I'm not alone in this. Is there any way to resolve this? To somehow make the fan quieter?

 

Hello all, I am new to these forums...

I recently bought a Sony Vaio CW2Z1E (i3 330M 2.13Ghz, NVIDEA GeForce GT 330M with 512MB, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD) to replace my old Vaio FE28B.

I've tried removing some of the Sony Bloatware... for example 'VAIO Premium Partners' by using Add/Remove programs in the Control Panel, but it doesnt seem to work, they are all still there even after I have gone through the uninstall. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? It worked for things like the MS Office Trial and Norton/McAfee Trials which went without a problem.

I quite like the VAIO Gate (very Macbook....) so am leaving that but want to get rid of the rest really as it's mostly useless!

Also, I was expecting my laptop to come with the WEB button for quickboot to Splashtop browser, but it seems on this newer CW model that they have got rid of it?! I have ASSIST, DISPLAY OFF and VAIO buttons. Does anyone know if it's possible to set this up yourself and assign it to either the ASSIST or VAIO button (or launch it some other way?).

Any advice greatly appreciated!

Darren

 

Guys dat may jst be the problem with some specific machines cause I hav been using it day in day out for 2 months now and i dont notice the excessive noise of the fan unless I am pushing the machine too hard with gaming or my simulations......not to discourage you on anything but jst look into the matter.............