S360P vs Sonoma

Considering the ATI 9700 is superior to the Nvidia card, is there an advantage in waiting for the Sonoma S3XP?

 

If you like the silver finish better than the current black finish...[ ]

On the other hand, I am not sure Europe gets the new finish as in Japan. Anyway, I personally feel that any one want to buy an S fairly soon should stick with the 9700 equipped S. The new S may perform better in some other area because of better CPU (Sonoma CPU is faster than Dothan CPU for about 10% even if both are clocked the same), but it's not a killer rig yet with the Go 6200.

 

Is there any chance of a 9700 128mb equipped new S series? Wondering what the VP will be like.

By all accounts the nvidia gpu is a step backwards.

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Thanks for the info. CompUSA has $250 in rebates on the S360P right now so that's what I'll probably go with.

I've been toying with the idea of the new Acer 8103 but I can't make up my mind of 15.4" vs 13.3". Even so, I keep gravitating toward the Sony. The Acer does come with the ATI X700 card.

 

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Very very slim. The move toward Sonoma platform is inevitable and hoping for a more puwerful chip like X700 or 6600 in future S is probably much more realistic.
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Oh, I'm happy with that - just don't want a half-baked 6200. I'm guessing we're expecting that the high-spec S series (announcing later this month?) is going to have that as well as the versions already announced?

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From the today's new posting regarding the Sony S high spec, I don't think I'm seeing any specs that make it worth waiting for. We already know the 6200 is inferior to the ATI 9700.

 

The S92 in Japan has been announced for several weeks, but it starts shipping now so all of a sudden all US websites start to report the news. Personally, I think Sony USA made the right decision not to release an S92 equivalent at the moment (they certainly can because they have no problem releasing the FS and A series in Sonoma) -- if you are actually taking a hit in performance going to "High Spec", it's not "High Spec". Unless someone takes an X700 out of an Acer 8100, put it in the S92, and the laptop runs well, there really isn't performance or upgradability benefit by going Sonoma S at the moment (well, maybe except when your work is a CPU-holic and need the 2.13 GHz CPU).