Vaio Duo 11 Owners Thread

My external battery order shipped today after over 3 weeks of waiting.
But I am still waiting for Duo i7 to be shipped.

 

YES. Finally my preconfig i7 is here and now Sony can go to sleep, dont know why it took so long.

 

Because people are buying them faster than they can make them. Simple as that.

 

thought they should have anticipated that

 

First: Does anyone have dead pixels or bright dots on their screen?
second: Does the plastic inder and above the screen scratch that easily?
Third: Will this work with the duo 11? Amazon.com: Ultra Capacity High Quality 33600mAh Portable Charger External Battery Pack Power Bank Charger For Laptops and Notebooks - Compatible with Dell HP Sony IBM Lenovo Samsung Toshiba Acer Compaq Fujitsu Gateway Lition Asus: Cell Phones & Acce
Forth:Is there a thunderbolt input (symbol next to usb)?
Fifth: This is the BEST TabTop made so far imo.

 

They could make them faster if they weren't using their top-quality, low-volume manufacturing line in Shiojiri, Japan...but then they might not be made to quite the same standard. The wait will be over in a few weeks, but you'll live with the build quality for years. Your call.

 

Small issue with charging the Duo. I have enabled battery care but the duo doesn't stop on 80%. Even on 100% the indicator still shows charging and the indicator on the duo is orange in color which indicates charging.

 

There are several system utilities on the internet like speccy which display the real windows key.

http://www.piriform.com/speccy

 

It might be related to this:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/618243-sony-battery-charging-wierdness-battery-care.html

 

Thx Ashers. Will try it later today

 

Good piece of software. Thanks for the link.

 

It might be related to this:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/618243-sony-battery-charging-wierdness-battery-care.html

 

I've just purchased my first vaio ultrabook (i5/4gb ram/128gb ssd) and I have some problems with it:

1) on a blue background (please see the attached file) with the screen over 70% brightness i can clearly see a lot of thin horizontal lines (all the way from top to bottom)

2) from time to time the stylus become unresponsive and to "unfreeze" it i have to press the buttons on the side several times

3) on the bottom of the screen i have some minor light bleed in about 4 points, not really noticeable under normal use


Can somebody check with their unit if they have the above problems? Do you think i should exchange it?

Also i've noticed that in EU the onboard RAM is 1600Mhz vs US which is 1333Mhz. Is that a typo or there really are different memory types for each region?

 

I can see the lines too when viewed on my duo 11. Not really used the stylus so cant comment.

 

i can also see the lines too and i have the same specs (i5, 4gb and 128 gb ssd) but havent used the stylus a lot

 

Thanks for your responses

What about light bleed at the bottom of the screen (where the windows button is). It is best seen when you reset the device and the VAIO logo appears during boot sequence.

 

I have a Vaio Z and I don't see the horizontal lines so it must be a feature of the Duo's screen. As to the backlight bleed, I have a bit at the bottom of the Z's screen. With a screen of a brightness of 400nits, I think it's pretty difficult not to get a bit of backlight bleed which is visible on a black screen, whatever the machine.

 

I see the horizontal lines, but lowering the brightness makes it less visible. I never have my brightness above 30 or 40 pct anyway, probably because i'm into photography.

No backlight bleeding at all here, luckily.

 

My Duo i7 is now READY FOR SHIPMENT, and will be shipped tomorrow.
I will have it next day, hooray.

 

I can hardly see the lines on my unit. They seem to be visible only at a high brightness level (60% or more), combined with a dark background.
Usually, my unit has the brightness set around 30%.
I have the same specs (i5, 4gb and 128 gb ssd) and I suspect the lines are a feature of Ntrig digitizer matrix.

 

I have an annoying issue with the keyboard; often when I strike a key a little off-center, or maybe a tad too soft, it's not being received as a key press. On my work notebook (Dell) I never have this issue. Do others experience this as well? Could this be because of the large spacing between the keys, which I have to get used to?

 

Well occasionally there are some missed keys. I haven't really thought about why. I figured I just wasn't careful enough with my typing. The keys are pretty small.

 

Dear All,

Writing since purchasing an i5 unit (Vaio Duo 11), I can see that this machine as much promise. Almost everything is what I expected to receive, and do think this is good value for the money spent. However, I would really appreciate it if someone here could clarify whether there are drivers to enable pressure sensitivity on applications such as Paint Tool SAI, Zbrush and Adobe Photoshop.

My model isn't listed on a related driver found on Sony's website, being the svD1121Q2EB. It was a UK purchase, so this is probably why. Lack of pressure sensitivity on the stylus is really affecting my productivity in both work and studies, so I'd appreciate anyone's help to rectify this problem.

Otherwise my impressions of this machine are tremendous but I'd really like to resume my pursuit in digital art!

Many thanks,
Chris

 

I also missed some keys when typing fast.
However, I am not annoyed by this issue.

 

I find the same although I can't work out a way around it, I have to slow my typing down considerably on this machine as I just miss characters all over the place if I try typing anything like full speed. I don't think it's a size issue as I find the keys a reasonable size and actually prefer small keyboards with short travel keys, I found the 11.6in Vaio TX1's screen very good to type on, my desktop keyboard is only a bit larger and it's also great for typing (Microsoft Arc) as was the smaller 7in keyboard for the original Tab. It is making me rethink the Vaio Duo as I was planning for it to be main lightweight carry around machine but so far I'm finding I'm still using the Z series more as I can type much faster on it. Having said that, there isn't really anything else I guess - the Dell XPS 12 and Lenovo Yoga are too big and heavy for the tablet use and the Surface Pro looks clever but it needs a lot of space with the keyboard, I do like the very small space the Vaio Duo 11 can be used in.

John

 

Hi, now I got the VAIO Duo 11, too. I think it is a quite cool Ultrabook, but there's something wrong I suppose:
Sometimes (mainly when screen brightness is set below 70% or so), there is a very slight flickering, as if the refresh rate would be set too low (actuallly it is 60Hz). When I raise the brightness to 80 % or up, I cant recognize it anymore.
Second is, if screen brightness is lower than 70%, there are some horizontal lines which are rolling up and down the whole Screen (mainly when you got a grey- or blue-colored background, try out the grey X-Box-Music-App which is pre-installed), it looks as if you are filming a tv screen. Sometimes they are eve gone. I tried out several constellations of the energy management whithout success, i cant get rid of these lines.

Really, the lines and the flickering are very discrete but they are present. Do you have the same issue? What coud be the reason for it? Drivers (there are no display driver updates at the VAIO website...one idea for testing if the problem is caused by drivers is opening the bios which should have a blue Background. But i cant get into it by pressing DEL...

 

I will dim mine and use it for a couple days and see what happens and report back.

No you don't get into the bios with a hotkey. You have to power off the laptop completely. Then press the button located underneath the space bar. This will power it on with a boot menu.

 

Information on this forum is awesome. Definitely helped me in making my decision in buying one of these bad boys. Just ordered my i7 duo 11. Expected ship date is the 28th! Nooo. Such a long wait but excited to get it

Cheers,
Froi

 

I received mine yesterday and did fresh install it with enough drivers and utilities.
I installed Video driver from intel website.
I am now running at 30% brightness but I don't see any flicker or lines.

 

I don't know where you are but estimated ship date in the US is 1/9/2013.
I waited 2 weeks for my Duo.

 

I'm seeing the flickering as well which I'd meant to mention here to see if anyone else had it, the effect varies depending on what screen I'm on as I can't see it at the moment but it's quite noticeable on other screens.

John

 

Sorry, I don't get it right (perhaps as english is not my native language, perhaps because I worked 13 hours at night). What do you mean with "the effect varies depending on what screen I'm on as I can't see it at the moment but it's quite noticeable on other screens"?
Do you mean you can see the flicker and horizontal bars on some screens on your VAIO Duo 11 or on other laptops? Sorry, I'm a bit confused right now...

 

When you hover over the batter icon in the tray, what does it say?
If Battery Care is on then when you hover it will indicate: "80% Plugged In, Not Charging"

 

:thumbsup:Thx, solved my problem. I completed a complete discharge cycle. Battery care stopped charging the battery at 80% with the next charging.

 

The icon still showed charging at 100% and the battery charging light was on. Complete discharge of the battery solved the problem. It now stops at 80%

 

I've ordered an i5/256GB/8GB CTO from the UK. Ship date is 28th Dec, but ordered it a couple of weeks ago. Will check out the lines/flickering/etc. when I get it.

 

Sorry, that wasn't very clear - what I meant was it depends what is on the screen, I can't see a flicker when I have Opera (the browser) open while reading this thread but when I minimise to the desktop I can see the screen flickering.

John

 

Okay I started doing what I said to test this, but then I got sidetracked by a big problem. I don't know if it's a Vaio problem or a Windows 8 problem, but it has happened several times. What happens is that if I create a second user account, after some using the account, the login process breaks. The system freezes when logging into that account. It freezes both when freshly logging in, or when switching to it if it's already logged in.

Completely freezes like its stuck on a login script of some kind. The issue never happens with the primary account - the first account that I set up. It only happens with additional accounts. Also when the problem account is in this state, the "metro apps" do not appear on the start pae.

Problem is not fixed with deleting the account and recreating it, so I am in the process of testing with a fresh reinstall of the OS.

It's a big deal for me because I use two different accounts in order to run two different Dropbox sessions - one for personal and one for work. Pretty annoying problem because it works correctly in the beginning and then something gets corrupted and messes it up.

But I still love the laptop and am confident I can figure out what's going on.

 

What system configuration (RAM, Processor) do you have?

 

I noticed it a lot when I was first using the Duo 11. I don't have the problem anymore except for the spacebar key and the left-arrow key. I think the spacebar key isn't sensitive enough to key-strikes on its left edge and I think a sesame seed got under the let-arrow key Either they keyboard "broke in" or I got used to its feel.

I had no missed keystrokes except for one spacebar stroke while typing this post.

 

I see noticeable flickering on the solid-grey background of Xbox Music's "my music" screen. I don't see any flickering when in a browser or anyone else, but I use IE10 instead of Opera.

 

Me too now. It flickers at greyish portion but for just a few seconds.
However, I go to Intel Graphics Control Panel and saw refresh rate was 40Hz.
I changed to 60Hz, go back to Music, no more flicker.

 

The mid-spec i5/128GB/4GB machine, I did check the refresh rate but it's always been 60Hz.

I'd hoped I would get more used to the keyboard but it's not really got any better for me as I still need to keep my speed down to avoid missed keystrokes, if I try to go faster I just get too many missed keystrokes.

John

 

I connected two external monitors to the Duo: One on the VGA and one on the HDMI, in addition to the laptop display itself.

So, it does drive three displays just fine.

 

Seems like i see no flicker on freezing issues on mine i7, 256, 8gb

 

Guys, this is my first post.
duo 11 was launched in India last month and it went on sales 24-Dec, i had ordered a pre-sale piece and got it on 22-Dec this is the only model sony is selling here
i5, 4GB 1600MHz, 128GB SSD - 1,632USD.

i went to shop with great excitement to grab it, but there was big disappointment waiting for me. guess what, Indian model does not come with STYLUS.

I was completely shocked to hear this, so I was forced to buy the stylus as an optional accessory and the sony sales team does not even know this optional stylus will work on this duo 11.

I have told the guys to arrange the working stylus. only then will take the tablet. I hope they have not removed the N-trig receiver circuit from the tablet in the name of cost cutting and the stylus hopefully works.

sony is cheating Indian customers, their launch and news publication says duo 11 is touch and write tablet but they expect Indians to write it by their fingers i suppose .

so guys from India be cautious about this stylus when you are buying duo 11, we will have to wait and see what more surprises comes with Samsung ATIV Smart PC pro.

~SwK.

 

here is the sony's press release
Touch, write and go with slim new VAIO

 

Well, that's a surprising move from Sony. As for the price, it's about the same in E.U. with 2 years standard warranty + 1 year extended.

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hey guys,

my sony vaio 11 arrived just a few hours ago and I am trying at the moment to upgrad my ram (I´ve ordered it with 2 GB). I have read your thread and now I am wondering if it is possible to upgrade it to 4 or 6 GB ram? Thank you in advance for your help and merry Christmas

 

You can't upgrade ram because it is proprietary of Sony.
You can't find ram on the market.

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