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    Another Sony Vaio SR First Impressions/Possibly Review

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by silverwolf0, Jul 31, 2008.

  1. duffyanneal

    duffyanneal Notebook Deity

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    Things may be different now with current hardware and Vista SP1, but I installed Vista Business on four or five different notebooks (all different makes/models). None of the machines exhibited better battery life or even close to it. All of the machines had about 20% less battery life and this was after tweaking all of the power settings and turning off Aero/Sidebar. Vista is just a resource hog.
     
    duffyanneal, Aug 5, 2008
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  2. Phil

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    I got more batterylife on my TZ with XP vs. Vista.
     
    Phil, Aug 6, 2008
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    nice review mate and thanks for the heaps of pictures and videos. i needed a comp so badly that i bought a compaq v3822...nice..but the SR's real good. am waiting for nehalem to be out...and then would probably go SR.
     
    n20nine, Aug 6, 2008
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    Is it just me, or is your videos stopping every two seconds?

    Very nice revamped review!
     
    ShinyFalcon, Aug 6, 2008
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  5. n20nine

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    its youtube..happens to some videos i play at random
     
    n20nine, Aug 7, 2008
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    I think my original reason was because of the price. I was looking at the starting price at sonystyle.com, and I just pick the cheaper one. :p
     
    jannovrusli, Aug 9, 2008
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    Has anyone tried playing CoD4 on the SR? Thanks a lot!
     
    fruit45, Aug 20, 2008
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    before i traded in my dv2700t, i played cod4 on it and it ran great low settings..that was an 8400m gs which is definitely worse compared to the ati 3470 so the SR should run CoD4 pretty well low/maybe some med settings
     
    FordUni12, Aug 20, 2008
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