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    Sony VGN - S270 or S28GP ... impressive

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by elusiv, Dec 8, 2004.

  1. elusiv

    elusiv Newbie

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    Just tried this baby at work today with Doom 3 and Farcry...

    Intel Pentium M 725 1.6Ghz
    60GIG (4200 rpm I think)
    ATI Radeon 9700 64MB (dedicated)
    512MB (mini ram apparently)
    DVD +/-R/RW
    It is sooo tiny.

    They both 'could' run on high, but both ran perfect on medium.
    Farcry just has momentary hard drive lags (4200 rpm), doom ran pretty smooth on high, but I did experience one crash.

    Just some background.
    I had my Dell inspiron 5150
    3.06 Ghz HT
    64MB ATI Radeon 9000
    80 Gig 5400 rpm
    DVD RW

    This was stolen out of my car....
    It was too heavy to lug around, thus I left it in the car's trunk and voila' it dissapeared along with my car.

    So there is a new reason to buy a thin and light, it actually out-performed my 5150 on Gaming???? And the AC Adapter doesnt closely resemble a brick. Just slightly bigger than a cigarette box.

    Been sussing this one out and think its worth buying, but I've been checking the machine the whole day and 2 things worry me, it uses new 400 Mhz (mju symbol for the word) MICRO RAM? and also can't find a place where you could just u upgrade the hard drive to a 7200rpm???
    HMMMM.
     
    elusiv, Dec 8, 2004
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  2. Skyshade

    Skyshade Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Welcome to the S club, you might want to visit the following link for user-upgrade information:

    http://www.talkvaio.com

    BTW, the memory modules are PC2700 (DDR333) 172-pin MicroDIMM modules.
     
    Skyshade, Dec 8, 2004
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