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    Need advice!!!. Which should I choose?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Jabba1977, Jun 22, 2012.

  1. Jabba1977

    Jabba1977 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi...I´m newbie in this forum so thank you all, great forum!!!.

    I´ll planing buying a Sony vaio F-3D, in my country (Spain) there are this models in outlet (cost about 1000€ each one).

    Wich should I choose?. I´ll going for the one that have best screen / refrigeration. The small difference in the processor does not matter to me.

    Which is better overall ... one is a vaio F21 and the other a F23.

    VPCF21Z1E/BI.ES2.A

    Procesador Intel® Core™ i7 2630QM (2.0 GHz con Turbo Boost hasta 2,90 GHz)
    Windows® 7 Home Premium original (64bit) (versión española)
    Teclado español
    Disco duro de 640 GB Serial ATA (7200 rpm)
    SDRAM DDR3 de 8 GB (1333 MHz), 8 GB como máximo
    Pantalla VAIO Premium de 41,6 cm (16,4 pulgadas) (resolución de 1920 x 1080) (16:9)
    Tarjeta Gráfica NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M GPU con aprox. 4095 MB de memoria total y 1 GB de memoria video dedicada
    Salida HDMI*
    Unidad de Blu-ray Disc™ (BD-R/-RE/-ROM/ DVD±RW/±R DL/RAM)
    Cámara digital incorporada Motion Eye® (0,3 megapíxels) (resolución máx. en píxels 640 x 480)
    Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n; Tecnología Bluetooth®
    2 puertos Hi-Speed USB 3.0 + 1 USB de alta velocidad (USB 2.0)


    VPCF23Z1E/BI.ES2.A

    Procesador Intel® Core™ i7 2670QM (2,20 GHz)
    Windows® 7 Home Premium @original (64bit) con Service Pack 1 (versión española)
    Teclado español
    Disco duro de 640 GB Serial ATA (7200 rpm)
    SDRAM DDR3 de 8 GB (1333 MHz), 8 GB como máximo
    Pantalla 3D VAIO Premium de 40,6 cm (16 pulgadas) (resolución de 1920 x 1080) (16:9)
    Gafas obturadoras activas 3D
    Tarjeta Gráfica NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M con aprox. 2 GB de memoria video dedicada
    Salida HDMI*
    Unidad de Blu-ray Disc™ (BD-R/-RE/-ROM/ DVD±RW/±R DL/RAM)
    Cámara HD digital incorporada "Exmor" (1,31 megapíxels) (resolución máx. en píxels 1280 x 1024)
    Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11b/g/n; Tecnología Bluetooth® 4.0
    1 puerto USB 2.0 (conector tipo A)
    2 puertos USB 3.0 (conector tipo A)


    Thank you!!!, Regards.
     
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  2. Jabba1977

    Jabba1977 Notebook Enthusiast

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    No one?...please, help me!!!.

    Thank you.
     
  3. LatinUnit

    LatinUnit Newbie

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    Dont buy a Sony Vaio, go get a Mac, it will last you a decade, still want more? get a Toshiba Qosmio
     
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    Jabba1977 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Why not?, is this model bad?...

    VPCF21Z1E/BI.ES2.A

    I think that has a very good ips screen, correct?.

    And cost to me (1000€ ;) about half that Toshiba Qosmio 3d...

    I think is a good deal, isn´t it?.

    Thank you!!!, is better the VPCF21Z1E/BI.ES2.A in terms of screen or not?.

    Thank you!!!.
     
  5. pyr0

    pyr0 100% laptop dynamite

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    I'd choose the second model (VPCF23Z1E/BI.ES2.A). Better CPU and the 3D panel is known to be very good. The first model seems to only have a 2D panel.
     
  6. Jabba1977

    Jabba1977 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi...thank you!!!.

    The first model is also 3D screen and I know that mounts an IPS panel.

    What about the F23 3D (second model), which mounted better screen?. Any One Knows?.

    Thanks a lot!!!.
     
  7. pyr0

    pyr0 100% laptop dynamite

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    Review VPC-F21Z1E/BI

    Review VPC-F22S1E/B

    Judging by the reviews, both seem to have their advantages and disadvantages. Notebookcheck reviewed the F21 and F22 (sorry could not find anything F23 for you). There is a pretty high probability that F23 has the same panel as the F22. If that's the case, I'd still take the F23 with its better contrast ratio. But I am not an F series expert. Try to find one at a store and try it in real life.
     
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    Sony laptops crawl with technical malfunctions and errors
     
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    Jabba1977 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks a lot!!!!.

    I´ll try with the F21. I could not find anything for F23 too and I think that F21 panel is IPS , regards the contrast of F22 , F23???.

    @LatinUnit: Please, this is a subespecific sony forum... why you say this?. I have two sony at home and never has any kind of problem with this.

    Thank you...No one can answer me about F23?.