Sony CW i3/i5/i7 Official Owners Thread

ya graphics are not moving freely i will change all the options but running Batman arkham asylum is smooth

 

if batman works well, GTA 4 shudnt be that big a problem.....Check the graphics agn or els chk the setup.......

 

So, i3 got no turbo boost, what does that mean in reality? With a ssd perhaps I won't notice much (i3 or i5)? I'm hesitating enormously between this Sony, OR, an Asus N61ja. The Asus got i5, 16" (plus for me), and the USB 3.0 which never ever can be wrong. But it's a few hundred dollars more, is claimed to have an annoying glossy screen, and perhaps a more plastic chassi. Whether Sony is better quality or not I don't know... enlighten me please. I'm more into buying quality then the best specs.

 

someone care to answer?

 

Turboboost means that the processor can shut off one or more cores and increase the speed of the current active cores. for example i7-720 has 4 cores rated at 1.6, turboboost makes it work at 2.8 if only one core is working.
you can think of i3 as similar in performance to core 2 duo, i5 is better by 10-20%. Both are more than enough to any regular use. Gaming is rather dependent on the GPU than the CPU.

 

Well, since no one is answering yet, I'll give you a rough estimate only.
i5-520M (idle = no load) not going higher than 40C on my A/C room (25C)

But, if I remember it right, it didn't reach 40C. Haven't had much time to check idle temp yet

 

My i5 is idling around 30-32C(85-90F) in about a 70F room. Battery life for me has been a good 3-4 hours when I used it on and off while watching tv, but only basic surfing say on here or on engadget. and with only wifi on.

 

I don't care much about the gaming, but more about officeworking with multitasking (many windows open, writing, surfing simultenously). I thought i3 was way better then duocore, a seller told me today it was 40% better then a normal duo core. Say a 9400 duo core, would that be equal good then?

As alternative I'm peeking a bit at the Sony F11m1e, which got a i5 510m core, and just looking at it gives a better quality feeling (chassi, hinges etc), but it does seem a bit like an overkill with the big multimedia thing I don't need.

But then... Sony vaio cw2 may not be the best specs, but the screen is better (x-black led) then the E-series, and I got a chance to get it 20% cheaper then storeprice. The i3 core makes me hesitant if it's enough though.

 

i3-350~T9600 which is good for any use
It is better than core duo, at par with the high end of core 2 duo which are good.
Source

 

Hi guys, my CW is still en route to me from the U.S. (I live in the Philippines and my brother just shipped it out to me the other day). In the meantime, I'm thinking of ordering a screen protector from eBay. Can anyone be good enough and measure the exact dimensions of the screen? I want to make sure the one i will order will fit perfectly. Thanks!

 

what is graphics agn

 

When i am playing GTA 4 the game is hardly stuck. What can i do for that. After reducing graphics options there is no change.

My system specs Sony vaio CW with i5 520, 4GB DDR3, GT 330m

No problem in playing Batman Arkham Asylum at high settings

What is graphics agn?

Any one in this community please give a solution for me.

 

The game is terribly imported to PC.
Try downloading the patch, if it didn't improve it, then google the net for how to set the graphics options to improve it.

 

Hi! I just recently bought a Vaio CW26FG. I am encountering a problem when transferring (copy/paste) large files (eg. more than 500 MB) from a DVD... The transfer process just seems to stop always. If I click "more details" of the transfer dialog box, the "time remaining" seems to get stuck with "calculating"... I am not sure if this is what causes the problem... I am not sure if it's a hardware or a software problem; but I feel like it's more of a software problem since I can transfer smaller files with ease. Did any of you experience this with your laptops? I need some advice. Thank you.

 

AFAIK, you can't get the 330M or 1600x900 with the CTO. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

ok, any other place where i can get that config? sush as best buy, egg, or even sony for business ?
thanks!

 

Not aware of any, but this is a close one link

 

bestbuy doesnt have the 7200rpm or i5 540
Sonystyle can get everything EXCEPT the GPU hehe

 

Hello! Just wondering how much processes normally runs on your Win7? Mine's running 70+ processes, I think the pre-installed softwares might be causing this. Btw, my machine's bnew. Any reply would help. Thanks!

 

does anyone know the write speed for the blu-ray burner should be.

I'm currently in the process of burning my first BD-R DL, backing up 30 GB of music to one disc. The progress window shows the speed at 673 KB/sec and a total burn time of 14 hours.

I did a clean install following the thread on this site:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=450641

which worked perfectly.

To burn the Blu-Ray I just "copied" my MP3 file to the blank blu-ray in windows explorer. Wasn't sure if this would work since I thought windows 7 only had built in support for CD/DVD burning, but it started right away. Once I saw how long it would take (14hours) I thought about cancelling but since the disc cost $20 I didn't want to waste it.
Is this how long it should take or is something wrong?
Do I need to reinstall some of the Sony software I got rid of and which would it be : the VAIO BD Menu Data, or Roxio Easy Media Creator or something I missed?

Thanks for any help.


Vaio CW Series
VPC-CW2290X Jet Black
Intel Core i5-540M
NVIDIA GE FORCE 310M GPU
14" 1366x768
8GB DDR3 / 320 GB 7200rpm / Blu Ray - Burner

 

What I understand is that turbo charge (standard in i5 and i7) can clock one core to go to 2.8 GHz? So the other three cores are not needed or can they add on to this 2.8 GHZ clock so yo could go to 3 or 4 GhZ?

 

Only one core or two core(i7-x20QM) will be clocked higher while the other core is shutdown...

 

No it is dynamic, for example 2 cores can work at a higher speed than 1.6 for i7-720QM, it is a matter of power and usage. Under load, the processor use the max power and divide it among the number of active cores depending on the software (single threaded or multi-threaded). So the minimum for i7-720 QM is 1.6 and the maximum is 2.8Ghz depending on load. Same applies to other i5 and i7, not i3.

 

Which is when it using 2.8Ghz on one core, the other cores are being shutdown...
and no, its not minimum at 1.6Ghz, there's still speedstep to make it around 933Mhz...

 

Yes my bad, the minimum is 933 at power saving, i meant at load (1.6Ghz on 4 cores, 2.8 Ghz on one core, dynamic clock and number of active cores in between) as the number of active cores increases the frequency decreases per core.

 

933MHz = idle or not processing any command?

 

Don't get deceived by the number, it is at Power save mode, but able to process anything fluently and increase it as the load requires.

 

Yea. I asked this because shutdown/idle/933MHz = the same (not on process)

*Just trying to keep the one who first ask the question on track*

 

It is the minimum frequency to save energy, but not idle, i am running 3 word, 1 ppt, couple of tabs at firefox, skype, world of goo, some other programs and it is working at 933Mhz just to save energy. All the programs run fluently.

 

What I'm trying to point out is... when you run an application that requires multiple cores then you wont be able to achieve the max turbo boost speed (2.8MHz).

So to achieve 2.8MHz (max speed) the processor will only use 1 core to process the command then let the other 3 go on powersavemode/933Mhz/minimum freq or whatever you wanna call it. (Not talking about multiple opened apps)

*Its how I understand the Turbo Boost. Unless someone else can give more technical explanations.

 

So what is the use? Is it less wear on the computer like you have 1 electrode vs 4 on a spark plug?

I thought that the reason dual core was better, for example, was because it could theoretically double its speed virtually since there are two streams of data instead of 1. So, 2 Gig RAM would work at 4 Gigs theoretically.

 

Ah the hybrid concept of Prius!

 

It is like running a Ferrari with the fuel consumption and emission of hyprid Toyata.

 

Just a heads up: The i7 CPU we recently discussed is different from the i7 CPU on this thread.

 

What the....?

 

The same idea apply the difference is i7-620 is dual core, i7-720 is quad

 

So I recently bought the Vaio CW i3 at Best Buy, and recently, I've gotten a few bsods. I heard that it could be the graphics driver, so I went and updated that, but I'm still getting the bsods randomly. Could anyone help?

My configuration is a CW i3, with Nvidia 310M, and here's the problem signature stuff:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 7f
BCP1: 0000000000000008
BCP2: 0000000080050031
BCP3: 00000000000006F8
BCP4: FFFFF8000304F798
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 768_1


Thanks for the advice!

 

I was just wondering if anyone has installed Linux on their CW, I have the 27fxb and was wondering the success rates on the Linux distros.

 

I am currently dual booting Win7 and Ubuntu without a problem. There is however a slight problem with drivers in linux causing the screen to go black. There is a way to resolve this but you will have to google for it as I don't have the link here right now.

 

No this is not the way it works.

You do not get 2x performance. It's not like you get 2x 2GHz = 4GHz processing power. It is not that simple.

Multiple cores simply "offload" processing to its brethrens, but remember they all share cache and the RAM together.

Think of it as this. 2 Humans. Each can lift a small 250lbs couch. Together they cannot lift a 500lbs couch although it makes sense "technically". They can however lift more than one would alone, and offload the weight to spread it out.

 

Have run ubuntu on my CW 2. not a hitch for the screen problems i guess reinstalling the graphics drivers would do the trick....no problems with Ubuntu but m not getting Hackintosh to work on this.....if ne1 has any suggestions pls post it

 

Have run ubuntu on my CW 26. not a hitch for the screen problems i guess reinstalling the graphics drivers would do the trick....no problems with Ubuntu but m not getting Hackintosh to work on this.....if ne1 has any suggestions pls post it

 

Did you guys/gals noticed the "new Apple Macbook Pro" updates today?

I'd about laughed when I saw the 13 inch Macbooks/Pros were still using the older Intel Core 2 Duos.

I'm as big as an Apple fan as they come. But come on Apple. Do they really think the public is that stupid? Probably so.

I am so glad I got my core i5 CW Best Buy model 3 months ago. Less than $1000.

Apple charges almost $1800 for core i5 15 inch model. Simple crazy. They are going to notice that they won't sell as much at those prices.

 

I did notice the Apple updates. I am a big Mac fan, too. But I bought a Vaio CW a couple of months ago and I am perfectly satisfied with it. It has everything the new Macbook Pros have except great battery life and switchable graphics. But it does have 3 USB ports versus 2 on the Mac, HDMI port, Blue-ray and Express card slot, 512 MB video RAM standard (versus 256 on Macbook Pro except for top of the line expensive model). Overall better hardware for almost half the price. Windows 7 isn't that bad, either. No unibody aluminum case, but the CW design is still pretty nice. I like OSX, but it is not worth twice the cash. I imagine they will still sell a lot of them, though.

 

I so can't wait to run Hackintosh on my CW27!!!!!Who else is thinking it? especially the new macbook pros have the gt 330m too!!! super excited.

 

hello all,

I just purchased my Sony CW i3 series Notebook a few weeks ago. And I'm trying to use the 1 finger scroll feature. It is very inconsistent, even when I set the scroll zones larger. Sometimes it will scroll. Sometimes it will move the mouse pointer (even when I KNOW I'm in the scroll region). Sometime it won't respond in any way at all.

Does anyone else have problems like this?

Thanks
Dennis

 

I have this issue as well, I kind of get around it by using the circular scrolling technique that you activate in the touchpad options. Once I get it started then I can keep it going doing this. I would LOVE to be able to scroll like a macbook pro can, just using two fingers, but I don't think this touchpad has the capability.

I would do this in a heartbeat if I could find a guide on it. I sorely miss having OS X readily available. I currently use my Mac Mini for a multimedia station hooked up to my 42" Plasma lol, not exactly easily available.

 

Hey! I'd like to ask if the serial/product key that is at the back of my machine can be use for Windows 7 Ultimate? My current OS is Windows 7 Home Premium.

Thanks

 

^ Are you talking about the S/N and P/N on the bottom of your notebook?


Why would you even think that?

 

Just like why would one buy an Ipad unless it was for reading but then buy a Kindle!

Ahh the joys of Appldiction !