Well, I;ve about 2 months with my Sony Vaio and, as everybody, I have my pros and cons:
Pros:
-Beautifull 13.3'' WideScreen, but, I have an issue: the screen looks very bright when you look it from the top, and the material doesn't look like other XBrite screens... I don;t know if is only my laptop, or is a general fact
-Great battery life (about 3 hours with WLAN on)
-Really nice look (with the silver body, feels solid -unlike my IBM Thinkpad T42, the plastic feels weak and easy to unassembly)
-It's light... again, 1 lb less weight than my T42
-No useless buttons (but I miss dedicated volume controls, and Contrast adjust)
-The MemoryStick slot... is great for my Sony Clie PDA
-You get what you need... and what you paid
-The mouse feels good... I hate the double mouse in Dell models, altough I was customized with my IBM "eraser"...
-Clean design, with simple, well builded borders
Cons:
-The screen is a little bright, hard to tune
-The 10GB HD space for recovery (altough I've used it when I changed something in my configuration and it never booted up again...)
-No dedicated Home/End, PgUp/PgDown keys
-No screws for VGA port
-No integrated mic
-I had some problems with my wireless configuration... sometimes it missed its IP, switching to another one completly different
-The fan sometimes is noisy
-The battery feels weak
The hidden partition... well, what I did with my HDD is to install Partition Magic and resize the partitions... even the hidden one... Sony really uses about 3.5GB for the restore software, so I resized it to 4GB, and the C drive to 25GB, so I can install a lot of software... I hope when I use (again) the recovery wizard, it doesn't have problems with this re-allocation...
This laptop, with my Walkman NW-HD3, were one of the best buys I've made... ah, and by the way, I didn't have problems creating the recovery discs, but I rather Sony allows me to choise to build it in a DVD, instead of 7 CDs...
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have you got some pictures of the viao?
Sony Vaio S170P
Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by JSilva2911, May 5, 2005.