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    Sony Vaio S170P

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by JSilva2911, May 5, 2005.

  1. JSilva2911

    JSilva2911 Newbie

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    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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    JSilva2911, May 5, 2005
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  2. cyric

    cyric Notebook Enthusiast

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    have you got some pictures of the viao?
     
    cyric, May 8, 2005
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