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    Buying Sony F series laptop. Perhaps.

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by InaPinch, May 29, 2010.

  1. InaPinch

    InaPinch Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys, I was just looking at the Sony website, and really fell in love with their F series. The configuration I managed to configure was the following,

    * No Additional Video Editing Software
    * Intel® Core™ i7-720QM processor (1.60GHz) with Turbo Boost up to 2.80GHz
    * 16.4" VAIO Display (1600x900) with NVIDIA® GeForce® 310M GPU (512MB VRAM)
    * No Fresh Start
    * Microsoft® Works
    * No additional Photo Editing Software
    * 4GB (4GBx1) DDR3-SDRAM-1333
    * Blu-ray Disc™ player/burner (reg. price $180.00)
    * Norton Internet Security™ 2010 (30 Day Trial)
    * Keyboard Backlight
    * Standard Capacity Battery
    * Black
    * No Engraving
    * Genuine Windows® 7 Professional 64-bit
    * 500GB Hard Disk Drive (7200rpm)

    The price for that runs me at about $1,330.78 including tax.

    I intend to use my laptop for gaming, watching hd movies, video editing, photoshopping, and web browsing.

    The weird thing is that I saw other people who configured the same laptop with these specs,


    * No Additional Video Editing Software
    * Intel® Core™ i7-720QM processor (1.60GHz) with Turbo Boost up to 2.80GHz
    * 16.4" VAIO Premium Display (1920x1080) with NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 330M GPU (1GB VRAM)
    * Fresh Start
    * No additional Office Software
    * No additional Photo Editing Software
    * 6GB (4GBx1 + 2GBx1) DDR3-SDRAM-1333
    * Blu-ray Disc™ player/burner
    * No additional AntiVirus Software
    * Keyboard Backlight
    * Standard Capacity Battery
    * Black
    * No Engraving
    * Genuine Windows® 7 Professional 64-bit
    * 500GB Hard Disk Drive (7200rpm)

    I'd really like if I could get the premium high resolution display of 1920x1080 and the way better graphics card. The 310M simply won't do as my HP 5 year old laptop has a GeForce Go 7600 ranked at 130, and the 310M is only ranked at 109. That's not really acceptable. Those ranks are from this website
    Notebookcheck: Mobile Graphics Cards - Benchmark List

    Do you guys know how I can get the better configuration?

    Also, do you guys have better suggestions for a laptop or is this one good enough for the money?

    I'd like it if it had,

    i7 processor
    Blueray player + burner
    Built in webcam (not really necessary)
    A good graphics card with at least 1 gb dedicated ram.
    USB 3.0
    Sata III technology (not really necessary)
    HD display with antiglare

    Thanks in advance!
     
    InaPinch, May 29, 2010
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  2. coolguy

    coolguy Notebook Prophet

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    Don't cross post.

    If Sonystyle doesn't have it in stock, try to find the same configuration elsewhere like Newegg, Bestbuy, and other stores. You can also wait for the next F series refresh.
     
    coolguy, May 30, 2010
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