Received SZ680 and CR190 and love them!

I'm not gonna be too technical!

But these units are great.
Sony has a really nice style to their notebooks.

I got a SZ680 CTO:
2 gig ram
200 gig HDD 7200rpm
2.2GHz
Extended battery

and a CR190 Pink:
2 gig ram
160 gig HDD
1.8GHz

I love the SZ.
great size, fast, comfortable to use.
not sure about the extended battery yet though. the bulge is kinda annoying on an otherwise nice size unit.

My wife loves the pink CR.
Unit is gorgeous.
The main surprise is that unlike the specs on the Sony site it does have wireless N and Bluetooth that weren't listed.

If I put some games on it I will let you know my impressions.

 

you have 5 notebooks? man I want all of them (except the pink)

if you could run and oldschool FPS on the sony SZ680 and tell us how it goes that would be awesome! that sony has the 7400 Nvidia right?

 

the sz680 has the 8400 as it is on Santa Rosa
even though I wouldn't personally use a pink computer it really is quite pretty and the wife really likes it.
the pink style will blow Dell out of the water!! It is like owning a pink Macbook.

the Inspiron 8000 needs a shotgun though.
almost need to remove it from my signature as it needs put out of its misery.

And laptops have kinda becomea sickness as the entire family just had to have their own. 8yr old daughter claims the E1405 and the Asus is my 12yr old sons.

I bought the Asus for me and just couldn't bond to another computer that physically big. Nice machine though.

If I get the chance I will game and post any results I come up with.

 

we prettymuch bought the same machines! sz680 for self and a pink cr190 for the signifigant other.



have you done the semi-clean install on the machines yet? it makes a huge difference. for some reason though my 680 is running sluggish periodically with a lot of HD trashing and CPU usage being up near 100%. are you getting anything like that?

 

clean install is propably the solution. a semi clean install is nice, but nowhere near as effective.

 

Could you please post some info on the 200 gig HDD 7200rpm in your SZ680?

- the model number/manufacturer
- HD Tune benchmarks
- noise / heat / HDD temperature

I suspect Sony uses Seagates. How does Seagate (200G/7200) compare to Hitachi 7K200? I've heard 7K200 is a great drive.

I am trying to decide if it's worth ordering 200G/7200rpm from Sony or get the smallest HDD and swap it for the 7K200.

Thanks.