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    Purchasing Sony FZ (Your Opinion)

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by kuwaitgroup, Nov 3, 2007.

  1. kuwaitgroup

    kuwaitgroup Notebook Geek

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    :) Dear members ,

    been a while didnt come on this forum,


    I Used to have the sony FE and i loved it. But i sold it and now im looking to purchase the FZ.

    Now what is the diffrent with the blu-ray and the without blu ray specs.


    Does the blu ray customization comes with HD 1080 screen ? and HDMI ? or both of the specs got HDMI and HD 1080?


    and another thing , does the FZ still have manufacture problems, seems alot of people in this forum are complaining , kinda spooked me into buying one?


    Let me know what u guys think


    thank you
     
  2. Johnny T

    Johnny T Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I don't think the FZ comes with a Full HD screen....just WXGA...

    But i think all of them has HDMI and also FULL HD output :)
     
  3. kuwaitgroup

    kuwaitgroup Notebook Geek

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    oh really ?they both have HDMI ?

    awsome :D ty appreciated
     
  4. kuwaitgroup

    kuwaitgroup Notebook Geek

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    I would like to ask , whats better HYBRID or SATA ? what should i go for ?

    And just wondering , man is this laptop stable ?


    thanks
     
  5. kuwaitgroup

    kuwaitgroup Notebook Geek

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    Any Answers plz ?
     
  6. Ken Wind

    Ken Wind Notebook Deity

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    SATA is a connection used to attach components (commonly hard drives and graphic cards) to the motherboard. Both hard drives probably use SATA.

    Serial ATA

    A hybrid hard drive has a small amount of RAM on the hard drive to use for commonly accessed data. It supposedly speeds up boot time and increases application performance, but benchmarks show that it actually performs worse in some circumstances.

    Hybrid drive

    When looking at hard drives the most important spec to pay attention to (besides storage space) is hard drive speed. This is denoted by RPM or rotations per minute. The fastest hard drives available are 7200RPM, and the slowest are 4200RPM.
     
  7. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    Actually, the most important specs are transfer rate and seek time. The faster speed drives naturally have faster transfer rates. Seek times (the time it takes to move the heads) are very important as well. A drive with a fast transfer rate and a very slow seek time can be a pig compared to one with a moderate transfer rate and a great seek time.

    Gary
     
  8. kuwaitgroup

    kuwaitgroup Notebook Geek

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    So FZ users , what do u think of the FZ is it stable , im thinking about ordering it today
     
  9. centaurius

    centaurius Notebook Guru

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    Well, I have a new FZ21E, works great under Vista.

    The only issue, is the support, currently only windows Vista support, no win XP drivers, although I'm running winxp with drivers from downgrade from the FZ19, still Fn keys dont work... 8400M GT is installed as a 8400M GS, and I can't isolate the sound only to the headphones.