First things to do on a new Sony Z 11??

Sorry to everybody that I messed up my favorites list.

The last two or three months I scrupulously read every thread here on the new Z.

Since today I am proud owner (ordered on 15th march) of a 8 GB, i7, 512 Quad-SSD with extended battery, FHD (no diagonal lines whatsoever, but some cranky effects when booting up) and silver Metall shield (there are already photos on the specific looks of that modell, so I believe, no need for further one - I would not know how to host them anyway, never did ).

But now my question:

I cannot find (and I really tried the forum's search mode) the five or so things one should do early in the installing after unpacking. I only remember the following points, but not all of them exactly or clearly.

1. Making Recovery DVDs (done; by the way with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 here in Germany it was only one DL-DVD - and no fresh start option)
2. Disable Defrag (where?)
3. Disable something (Prefetch/superfetch??) in regedit (what and where exactly? HKey??)
4. Enable Virtualization in BIOS (done)
5. Get rid of the bloatware (done; surprisingly few here in Germany?!)

Anything else before I try to make a separate volume for video- and photoediting (dual boot win7/win7) as there are always driver conflicts when overloading the system to much with different software)???

Many thanks!!

 

Hope this helps. These are quoted from the Owners thread.

 

I'd leave Superfetch on, unless low on memory. While SSDs have very fast read speeds, RAM is faster still, and preloading DLLs and executables to RAM in anticipation of what you're going to need is still going to cause a speedup. Much less than for a HDD user, but still an improvement.
This is especially true if you regularly close out of programs instead of just minimizing them.

 

That's interesting Arth for a couple of reasons:

1) It looks like Superfetch actually does a lot of the work for Bootoptimization these days:

2) Superfetch writes statistics to the HD as it monitors your work. Some people have said that this could be an issue on a SSD, with a lot of small writes for the logging (if you don't have a good work routine/pattern )

It does this for the boot:

and also for applications:

3) Some others recommend to disable Superfetch but to keep Prefetch for SSD

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?70352-Prefetch-and-Superfetch

And that's just the tip of iceberg as far as those are concerned... So, kinda confusing

Do you think there is really such a thing as an authoritative answer on this right now or is it still somewhat an (educated) guessing game?

 

first thing I'd have done is cried, 4400.00 US

wanna trade for my s

 

Sorry for answering only as of today. For Easter I am in Vienna with my hubby .

Will try the hkey Gee was so kind to find for me - is this super- or prefetch or anything else?

Thanks to Teofred for the ocztechnology link - will do research back home which one to switch off...

Greetings from Vienna!

 

Yep. I know what you mean. Roundabout 4.500 Euro (incl VAT, 2y additional warranty and a traveller power plug) is quite

But the one day I could play with that baby got me hooked

P.S. Was not able to bring it with me to Vienna - condition set by hubby (I would have used the time to install my photo and video-editing software or something like that... )

 

Op, first thing to do with your new Z is to install some games and post performance #s / videos showcasing the discrete graphics

 

I wouldn't care about gaming performance as this is a laptop that's not designed for gaming even though it has a discrete graphics card with 1GB of VRAM

 

Thanks for posting this thread - I have the same questions. I just ordered my Z11 and have never worked with a SSD before. I consider myself an noob when it comes to many of these issues - somewhere between caveman and the Bronze Age - I'm hoping for Industrial Revolution by the time my system arrives.

I've seen on several different threads the recommendation to shut off defrag - but I thought Windows 7 automatically shut down defrag for drives that identify themselves as SSDs.

I also chose the "fresh start" option - are there any other recommendations related to it? Any recommendations for virus-detection software?

 

Getaklue,

Congrats on your new Z Here's a guide I just found regarding the SSD..very useful if you plan to do a clean install.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=467519

For Antivirus, I recommend Avira Antivirus Premium...the best i've used so far.