No SR Refresh?

I just finished watching the keynote and I didn't see a S in the lot of them? Anyone know if it is going happen, or should I start saving for the Z?

 

In VAIO Europe site there is a new S. But not a new Z.

http://presscentre.sony.eu/Content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=5461&NewsAreaID=2&ClientID=1

 

I wonder how the 310 compares to the 4570 of the last series? I would guess the 4570 was faster??

 

At the moment the only notebooks that got graphics boosts are the Z and the W. Seems that the CW, F and S have gone backwards. Very weird I must say.

 

The European version of the S-series does get a graphics and RAM boost. The RAM moves to DDR3.

The F-series also moves to DDR3-1333 RAM (from DDR2-800), in addition to the quad-core i7-820QM as an optional CPU. I just ordered one.

 

Sorry I meant graphics performance. It is great to have the new processors, but who really cares about those anymore. I am using a dual core 2ghz at home and it still does 90% of evyerhting i need it to do. It is the graphics processor that bottlenecks it, and would have been nice to see the ATI5 series in the F series and not the same graphics card they are putting in the CW. I guess to keep it at the price range they have to sacrifice a lot. Hopefully they will reach Australia with a better price this time (or Portableone here I come).

 

Okay, got you. Actually when it comes to the F-series (or the prior FW), I doubt Graphics was ever a constraint, like you are having with yours. Also, the F-series gets the GT 330M with 1GB of GDDR3 memory which is worlds apart from the CW that only gets the GT 310M with 256MB of GPU memory I believe. Of course the 310M is what comes on the lower-end F-series models, which I was not interested in anyway.

My only beef with the prior FW was the ancient DDR2-800 memory and they more than remedied it by actually leapfrogging over DDR3-1066 and going directly to DDR3-1333 when it came to the F-series.