Sony FE550 from Best Buy

I saw the Sony FE550 at Best Buy tonight and I was really impressed. It is 1549.99. I went to sonystyle.com and could not find any info on the fe550, they only had the fe590. whats the deal here? Why is the 550 not mentioned anywhere but for sale at Best buy? I was considering picking this up at best buy but I'm skeptical since I can't find any info on it.

 

Usually in bestbuy they use custom configured units or units that don't match the specs that sonystyle.com has (such as putting in a bigger hard drive or more memory) so they have to deviate a little from the number assignment.

I believe that's what happens, but Im not too sure.. this is just some speculation b/c when I look at the gateway models in bestbuy they don't sell the exact same model on gateway.com but they are still the same spec wise just maybe a different size harddrive.

I must go to bestbuy tomorrow and check out the FE.. I wonder if they'll ahve the SZ on display

 

micro center, best buy and compusa all had FE's on display and in stock in Mpls - no SZ's - Compusa says 2 weeks

 

I talked to best buy manager tonight and he said the SZ series is coming on truck tomorrow on Saturday and will be for sale late tomorrow or sunday this weekend. I bought a FE 550g laptop at the same store last saturday, wonderful machine

 

Jasonj566..... you bought an FE550g...last week... and your only now telling us?!?!?! lol

 

i know sorry about that, i actually bought another one for my wife since i liked it so much, going to get my sz series tomorrow at best buy

 

Hey jason,

Quick question: would you marry me?

 

does anyone know which models of the sz best buy will be selling?? Premium???
thanks!!

 

My Circuit City just got the FE550G in, shipments to other stores could vary.

 

It should be selling both eventually.

 

Im a little confused. On Best Buys website it says "Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support records up to 8.5GB of data or 4 hours of video using compatible DVD+R DL media". Is this really true? I havent seen anywhere else that the FE has a CD-RW drive. Do I just not understand double-layer drives?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7651169&type=product&productCategoryId=cat15200&id=1134702110773

 

a double layer drive means you can burn a dvd on two sides. like the DVD movies that come with a widescreen and regular format on one disc. also DVDRW drives can burn CD's alongside dvd's. also checked sonystyle.com to see if the FE's do have that and yeah they do. hope that helps a bit.

 

It's not actually two sides; there are two layers of burnable media on one side, and one is translucent. The laser to write and to read is able to focus on each layer, so you get twice as much space on a DVD, more or less.

And if I read your query correctly, penguinboy, every DVDRW drive is also a CDRW.

 

Had some hands-on with this lappy at BB this evening and it is one awesome machine. Absolutely beautiful. If it had a dedicated graphics card I would have bought it on the spot and cancelled my SZ order.