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    Sony Vaio F: Gray or Black

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Consecrated, Jan 13, 2010.

  1. Consecrated

    Consecrated Notebook Evangelist

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    Which one do you prefer?

    Feel free to post your opinion​
     
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    roweraay Notebook Deity

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    roweraay Notebook Deity

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    Seems like you skewed the results a bit, in favor of gray ? ;)
     
  5. Consecrated

    Consecrated Notebook Evangelist

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    Ye :)

    I prefer more colors than just one on the whole notebook which is the Gray since it's bright from the inside and dark from the outside and it's keyboard is Black and it looks special and unique while Black notebooks are found everywhere :D
     
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    Even though I personally chose Black, I do agree that the design of the F-series is pretty slick even in Gray. There is some contrast too, with a gray keyboard base and black keys and so on, which is pretty appealing.
     
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    You forgot "Premium Black" :S

    Not quite sure what the difference is, but in the UK it's configurable between Black and Premium Black
     
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    I checked it on the site

    Good but I still prefer the Black of the U.S. and especially the Gray :)

    I couldn't choose between Black and Premium Black though? :confused: just the Premium Black..
     
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    I would get the grey, and this is from me owning a black one. It looks great outdoors, but sometimes indoors the keyboard blends in with the gun metal color of the machine and it looks kinda dreary lol :D
     
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    Chrome Outline?

    Where is that? I had the grey version initially but exchanged it for the black. There wasn't any chrome except for the vaio logo, vaio button, and the AC input and power button locations. Those bits are standard for any version.

    In my case, I really did not like the darker shade of grey on the lid of the grey version. It would show a scuff mark much more visibly indoors during the day. Also when my grey unit shipped, it came with a very small cosmetic imperfection on the keyboard panel. It looked like a black hole the size of two pin pricks. It's extremely tiny but the black? underneath the silver finish was obvious in contrast to the silver around it. My eye always locked onto it.