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    FW gone off sony website?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by mcdanielnc89, Jan 10, 2010.

  1. mcdanielnc89

    mcdanielnc89 Notebook Geek

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    Is it me or did they take it off the website?///
     
    mcdanielnc89, Jan 10, 2010
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    brochiller Notebook Consultant

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    The FW has been replaced with the F.
     
    brochiller, Jan 10, 2010
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  3. mcdanielnc89

    mcdanielnc89 Notebook Geek

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    The F is very ugly. The fw is muh more stylish. Not to mention i hate the number pad. WHy did they replace it?
     
    mcdanielnc89, Jan 10, 2010
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  4. Ghosthostile

    Ghosthostile Notebook Consultant

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    They probably replaced it because of the bad hinge design on the FW
     
    Ghosthostile, Jan 10, 2010
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  5. Wolf04

    Wolf04 Sony Fanatic

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    Because that's how it works. Companies refresh the models once in a while and the F series is the successor to the FW. Yes, it's uglier but who knows, maybe the next F series will be better (in terms of style).
     
    Wolf04, Jan 10, 2010
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  6. mcdanielnc89

    mcdanielnc89 Notebook Geek

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    Perhaps. I will agree that the hinge design was rather bad. I've no problems with mine yet.
     
    mcdanielnc89, Jan 10, 2010
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  7. mcdanielnc89

    mcdanielnc89 Notebook Geek

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    Also, how do we know the exact graphics card thats in it. Sony doesn't even show that.
     
    mcdanielnc89, Jan 10, 2010
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  8. roweraay

    roweraay Notebook Deity

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    For the Graphics card, you have 2 choices depending on the screen you chooose:

    If you choose the lower resolution 1600x900 screen, then NVIDIA® GeForce® 310M GPU (512MB VRAM)

    If you choose the Full HD Premium Display (1920x1080), then with NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 330M GPU (1GB VRAM)

    Whether you personally like the design or not, the new F-series is a quantum leap in terms of what is "under the hood", when compared to the old FW-series.
     
    roweraay, Jan 10, 2010
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  9. mcdanielnc89

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    Yea, I have seen that. It seems like a REALLY improved FW. I suppose the design isn't TOO bad.
     
    mcdanielnc89, Jan 10, 2010
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    roweraay Notebook Deity

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    My minor gripes of the FW series, which are as follows, have been remedied in this new series:

    a) It came with old/slow DDR2-800 RAM, while the whole world had moved onto DDR3-1066 memory (the F-series has leap-frogged over the DDR3-1066 RAM and moved onto DDR3-1333 RAM)

    b) For the last month or so, blu-ray burners and players had completely disappeared from the FW-series available for purchase....the F-series obviously brings that back.

    c) Intel was moving onto their next generation quad-core chips and even though the available CPU options in the FW was okay for the current generation of software products, it would fall behind when it comes to usage on the NEXT generation of software products that will be designed around multi-core, multi-threading capabilities that these new chips have.
     
    roweraay, Jan 10, 2010
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  11. hanzocloud

    hanzocloud Notebook Geek

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    just out of interest... anyone know what was the predecessor of the FW series ??? hehee
     
    hanzocloud, Jan 30, 2010
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  12. efrain_lopez

    efrain_lopez Notebook Enthusiast

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    Here in Germany, the FW is still being sold at sony store at good rates,
    for example:


    VGNFW55X 989,00 €

    * Intel® Core(TM)2 Duo 2,80 GHz
    * Legales Windows® 7 Home Premium
    * 500 GB Serial ATA (5400 U/min)
    * 4 GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM
    * Blu-ray Disc Combo-Laufwerk
    * 41,7 cm Full HD LCD, 1920x1080
    * ATI MobilityRadeonHD4570 512MB


    and also at sony Outlet store


    VGNFW45X354S.G4.A 949 €

    Betriebssystem Windows Vista® Home 64 bit
    Prozessor Intel® Core(TM)2 Duo Prozessor T9600 (2.80 GHz)
    Standardspeicher (MB) 4096
    Speicher DDR2-SDRAM (800DDR2-SDRAM (800 Mhz) (2 x 2GB / max. 8 GB)
    Cache-Speicher (L2-Cache in KB) 6144
    Festplattenkapazität (GB) 400 GB
    Auflösung 16:9 wide screen Full HD(1920x1080)X-black LCD
    Grafikchip ATI MOBILITY RADEON(TM) HD4650
    Grafikspeicher 1 GB DEDICATED VRAM
    Lithium-Ionen-Akku VGP-BPS13A/S
    Akkulaufzeit 2 Stunden 10 Min.
     
    efrain_lopez, Feb 17, 2010
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