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    Slat Need a little help on choice of Sony Models?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Bobcat, May 8, 2004.

  1. Bobcat

    Bobcat Newbie

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    Slat or anyone. Need a little help here. BTW, great review on the Sony GRT. Am looking at both the Sony 360zg and the 390zg and can't see much difference between them. Both have 3.06 processors. But the display on the 360 is an SXGA TFT Matrix and the 390 is a UXGA TFT Matrix. I assume the latter is a little finer resolution but don't know. Saw the 360 yesterday at CompUSA. Screen is exquisite and most importantly, the keyboard has the perfect tactile touch which happens to be critical to me. Was a diehard Dell man and was going to get the Dell 9100 or XPS but the service (also critical to me) seems to be totally re-routed to another country with language barriers. (Being nice) Can you or anyone give me a little advice on which of these is the better of the 2 machines? The 390 is more expensive and the benchmark tests (probably due to the 80GB hardrive) seem to be fairly slow. Would the 60GB drive correct that? Only heard 2 negatives about the Sony. 1. DVD drive is incompatible with other formats? And NO S-Video output? Don't know whether this is true or not. Understand the new Sony Vaio A17 will be announced on Tues. one day after Intel announces their new Dothan chip. Beautiful machine but the price will probably be up there as well.
    Thanks,
    Bobcat
     
    Bobcat, May 8, 2004
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  2. TheShaman

    TheShaman Notebook Consultant

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    I know this has nothing whatsoever to do with your question, but I felt the need to point this out:
    When this thread showed up on the front page, the subject got cut down to :"Slat Need a little help on choice of Son"

    I laughed.
     
    TheShaman, May 9, 2004
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  3. Slat

    Slat Notebook Evangelist

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    Lol Shaman, that was great. [ :D]

    I posted a reply in the GRT review thread.

    Sony GRT270-16.1" UXGA; P4 2.8GHz; 1GB RAM; 80GB HD; DVD+-RW; 64MB Geforce 5600; XP Pro

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    Slat, May 10, 2004
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