Sony Vaio FE11H-Help

Bonjourno

I am considering buying the Sony Vaio FE11H Laptop Computer.

From this Website -
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=103783


Wha.....no linky...
If you can be bothered copy and paste it...

It has;
A Intel Duo T2300 1.66ghz centrino Cpu
A gig of DDR2 533mhz Ram
100 Gig 5200rpm HD
15.4" (1280x800) Widescreen x-black Lcd Screen
NVIDIA Geforce Go 7400 Turbocache 128mb GPU
Super Ultra Mega Uber All singing all dancing Dvd Burner
Integrated Intel 802.11 blah blah Super lan

Through my dads business it will cost 860 pounds/1500 dollars.

Is this worth it, and what will i recieve in terms of performance and battery life?

I will be using it for Flash, photoshop, light video editing and Earth 2160 etc

Please share your wisdom.

Sprogo

 

Just saw on Digitimes:
"reported that Intel would decrease prices for its Yonah CPUs 17%-32% by the end of May. Prices for Intel's T2600 CPUs are expected to drop to US$423 in May, down from US$632 in January. The chipmaker will also offer its T2500 and T2400 at US$294 and US$241, respectively, during late May, a respective 30% and 17% reduction from January, the paper said."

If you don't need very soon, I would advice you to wait a bit. Also you would have chance to read a couple of reviews in the meantime.

 

Hmmmmm.....

 

Thats interesting... does anyone know if i can swap out the old CPU and install a new more powerful chip in my FE 590G? i wouldn't have to do the upgrade now...

 

hey.. i picked one up last week on tottemham crt road london for £1050.
and i've upgraded it to 2G ram
despite da crappy pre-installed software that'll take u a day to clean it up as well as the automatically slow down core-duo chip, perfect machine.

 

Um
I undersatnd everything except "as the automatically slow down core-duo chip"

Is that the function that lowers cpu speed in accordance with battery power left??

Or is it a s**t chip?

And should I ditch this all together?

GRARGH

 

its a decent and/or s**t chip

its decent coz it slows it down for good reason - for longer battery life...

da s**t side is, the speed changes practically every minute, e.g. when u open Photoshop it jumped to 1.66G and after the programming is up running, it dropped bak to 1G RIGHT AWAY... durin my daily use CPU-Z shows the core frequency keep changin every 5- 8 seconds.

theoretically this will not affect da performance since da chip will go faster when needed... bt im worrin about 2 things:

1. stability of da system
2. the changin speed may affacts battery life...

besides... if u connect usb2.0 devices to all intel coreduo laptops in winxp sp2, you lose half of ur battery. no offical fix yet.

 

w....t.....f

Thats just....beyond.....not good.
Now im not so sure, should i go for a single core?
Should I waiit until that crappy glitch is fixed?
Restore my faith!

 

The issue is not that common. There should be a fix soon. If you need assistance with the power drain issue, contact your notebook manufacturer.

 

ha... nah.. core-duo is far more better than single...
u hardly need to wait for anythin during ur daily workflow except launchin large applications (2G Ram frm eBay = £130)... besides, the 5400rpm harddrive is also faster than the 1st gen singlecore laptop...

microsoft made a beta work-around with that battery bug bt even itself wont recommand user 2 install.. however, it means the final solution will b out soon...

still a sexy machin.. 2/3 the price as a macbook pro bt can let u play quake 4 smoothly... daz why i went for it.

 

I hate macs with a burning vengence.... But meh I see the reasoning.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=42030

I apply that theory here except dual......cored.