Sony vaio tz order waiting lounge!!

I just thought I'd make a thread just for people who ordered the sony vaio tz and are currently waiting for their order.

Ordered from: Conics
Date ordered: August 2nd 2007
Location where you reside: United States, Houston Texas.
When to expect: exactly 2 weeks and 3-4 days for me to receive.

 

I'll race you:

Ordered from: Conics
Date they placed the order: August 1st 2007
Location where you reside: Australia.
When to expect: I'm going to go with the 24th of August at 3:25 PM.

 

Ordered from: Dynamism
Date they placed the order: July 24, 2007
Location where you reside: USA, Minneapolis, MN.
When to expect: This week, I'm guessing Friday.

 

Ordered from: PriceJapan
Date they placed the order: August 6, 2007
Location where you reside: Houston, TX USA
When to expect: August 25-31 is what they told to expect it because of the holiday.

 

Order: Conics (Order Date: Friday 03 August, 2007) Payment should have gone through by this 9th or 10th August. So, I should be getting one about end of this august...

Products
1 x Sony VGN-TZ90 TZ90SN (upto 3 yr warranty)
- Custom Recovery DVD(s): Apps & Drivers on HDD only
- CPU: Core 2 Duo U7600 1.20 GHz
- Conectivity: Bluetooth
- Docking Station: None Required
- Extra AC Adapter: no extra required (1 only)
- External DVD-RW Drive: None Required
- Colour: Champagne Gold
- Case: None Required
- English setup: YES, required
- Security: Fingerprint sensor & TPM
- Warranty: Standard 3 years
- Networking: Wireless LAN a/b/g/n
- Optional Antenna: None Required
- Plug shape Adapter: Type O (AU/NZ etc)
- Miscellaneous: None Required
- Hard Drive: 32GB Flash (+160GB 2.5" 5400RPM)
- Keyboard: English
- Memory: 2GB
- Extra Battery: no extra required (1 only)
- 1st Battery: Light BPS11 (4.5 - 6hrs)
- Windows Version: Vista Home Premium

Order Total: $2,835.32USD (including shipping to NZ)

Conics told me 3 weeks (1week+ due to the Jap holiday)

 

Ordered from: PriceJapan
Date they placed the order: July 25th
Location where you reside: Lund, Sweden
When to expect: Was shipped the 4:th, should arrive today according to DHL
Arrived yesterday, Aug 7th
Made it through cystoms

 

Ordered from: PriceJapan
Date they placed the order: July 14th
Location where you reside: Paris, France
Arrived on August 3

 

Any news on when it's going to arrive? It's now the 7th of august.

 

Wow! So many soon-to-be TZ owners!

Welcome to the club, you'll love this machine I guarantee you!

 

Weehaa I love this lounge . Just made my order and transfered my money to Pricejapan.

I like the fact that they have a german bankaccount, I can transfer money for free inside EU. Besides that, they were very quick replying to my emails.

My config:
Black, Core 2 Duo U7600 1.20 GHz, 1GB memory, 160G HDD, 32GB SSD, 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless LAN, English keyboard, standard battery(VGP-BPL11), NO finger-print sensor, NO security chip, NO DVD, including Wall mount plug adapter .
Price on Sony website in Yen: 251,800
Order date: 7 th of august
Expected delivery: 28-31/8
Including shipping and commission: 1767 euros

For the same price in Netherlands I could buy a TZ11 with 1,06 Ghz, 80 GB 4200RPM HDD, NO SDD.

Now the only question is: Do I let them undervalue the package?
The good side: I will save some of the 19% salestax
The bad side: The insured amount goes down the same!
I feel like I'm playing roulette. What do you guys think?

 

I love these guys at Pricejapan. I ordered 5 hours ago, I transfered the money to their german account 4 hours ago (urgent transfer). I just got their email saying they received the money and placed the order.

 

Edit: Arrived on August 3

 

I requested that mine be under valued. I am willing to take the risk.

 

Ordered from: PriceJapan
Date ordered: July 20th
Location where you reside: Brunswick, Germany
When to expect: August 6
Arrived: August 7 - TODAY !!!

1 day delay thanks to DHL who left my package at customs (AFTER clearance) for full 24 hours... but DHL Package Tracking is cool.

 

Ordered from: Conics
Date they placed the order: July 22, 2007
Location where you reside: Chicago, IL USA
When to expect: August 7-11 is what Brett told me to expect a delivery.

In reply to my email, he mentioned Sony shipped my laptop to his company location yesterday, so I think it will take another 3 days for it to reach US.

But, I am not too worried about it... I just want it to come safe to me without any damage.

 

To save the maximum of money, I ordered the TZ from Sony Style Japan via the japanese girlfriend, who lives in Japan, of one of my colleagues. The disadvantage of this cheap solution is that I must await her arrival in Paris at the beginning of September. Indeed, I don't want that she ships it to me from Japan. Not really to avoid me paying the delivery but rather to avoid paying the VAT (19.6% in France). I know that I could undervalue the package but I wouldn't have to undervalue of more than half of its price. In this case, I should have paid approximately 200 euros - $275 USD and take a little risk. So, to avoid this, I prefer to stay a long moment in this waiting lounge .

- Configuration ordered :

• Vista Home Premium (=> TZ90S)
• Premium carbon color
• Core 2 Duo U7600 (1.20 GHz)
• RAM 2GB (due to a promotion when it was ordered, 1GB->2GB costs only 10,000 Yens - 61 Euros - $84 USD)
• SSD 32GB & HDD 160GB 5400 rpm
• wifi a/b/g/n
• w/o Oneseg television option
• fingerprint sensor & TPM chip
• english keyboard
• standard battery (VGP-BPL11)

for 286,800 Yens - 1,755 Euros - $2,412 USD
- Accessories :

• one extra standard battery (27,000 Yens - 165 Euros - $227 USD)
• wall mount plug adapter (500 Yens - 3 Euros - $4.2 USD)

Total (w/ currency conversion fees & not included the gift which I envisage to offer to my colleague and his girlfriend) :
1,950 Euros - $2,679 USD

Ordered from: Directly from Sony Style Japan
Date she placed the order: July 26th
Location where she/you reside: Japan / Paris, France
When to expect she/I will receive it : August 8-13 (if she haven't already received it) / September 10

 

Uuhhmm... what is a wall mount plug adapter for?

 

Instead of having a figure 8 power cord coming from the power brick to the wall, you use the wall mount plug adapter and plug the power brick "directly" into a power socket.

 

its always the cheapest to order directly from sony japan,and that is a fantastic price. before you meet her and get your TZ, you better treat her like a queen and give whatever she wants, or your lappy will be at risk!

 

Ordered from: PriceJapan
Date they placed the order: July 15th
Location where you reside: Troyes, France
Arrived on August 6

Detailed Report (from DHL)
August 02, 2007 16:34
Tokyo - Japan Shipment picked up
August 02, 2007 20:47
Tokyo - Japan Departed from DHL facility in Tokyo - Japan
August 03, 2007 07:56
Paris - France Arrived at DHL facility in Paris - France
August 03, 2007 08:21
Paris - France Processed for clearance at Paris - France
August 03, 2007 08:25
Paris - France Clearance processing complete at Paris - France
August 03, 2007 10:17
Paris - France Departed from DHL facility in Paris - France
August 03, 2007 10:51
Paris - France Arrived at DHL facility in Paris - France
August 03, 2007 11:08
Paris - France Shipment on hold
August 06, 2007 08:19
Paris - France With delivery courier
August 06, 2007 11:30
Paris - France Shipment delivered

 

I don't know about Paris, but here in Amsterdam, if you arrive at the airport with a brandnew laptop you will have to prove that you bought it in Netherlands. If you can't, you need to pay VAT anyway.

So maybe it's good to consider that.

Edit: I forgot that your friend is from Japan so it may be different. Still it might be a good idea to take the laptop out of the box, so that it does not look completly new.

 

In Australia, if you are only visiting and can "reasonably" prove that you intend to take the laptop back with you, you do not pay any duties.

 

I bought in mind to have one less cable in my backpack.

Thanks for the warning. If I come back in France with the lappy, as a french citizen, there is indeed the problem mentioned by you. But it is not my case. Actually, it's her that comes in France. And vis-à-vis the customs authorities, she's a japanese tourist that travels with her laptop. She will travel without the box, manuals & the invoice, only with lappy & accessories. I think there will be no problem while proceeding like that.

Edit:

Sorry, I haven't seen your edit message before sending my reply.

What do you mean by " reasonably prove that" ?

 

Once again.. glad i'm in the good ol US of A lol!

 

Just recieved my TZ90 from PriceJapan, it should have arrived yesterday but DHL didnt wanna leave it outside my door, so I got it today.
The best thing is that it passed through customs without any problems. VAT= 25% and the customsfees are 3%, and I didnt have to pay any

 

oh man this waiting is still killing me! still have 3 weeks left to wait...

 

Well, if it were me who had to prove it, I would take it out of the box and take it through as hand luggage. I would still pack the box and everything in a suitcase though.

 

Don't flash them your computer!

But seriously, custom checks are a relatively rare occurence, considering how many people flow through Schiphol, what is it 20 million?

 

Can someone tell me what the 1-seg antenna is for? Is that the broadband modem antenna?

Has anyone thought about upgrading a Japanese model with a U.S. Sprint modem? I would like to have portability, storage and 3G all at once.

I know, probably not possible.

 

You'll be surprised how many times they took me out of the line

Well last 4 times I came from Bangkok I got checked twice. I got checked once coming from US. I had to prove that my old laptop was not bought in US.

On certain flights (Tokio, Bangkok, Singapore, US) they have a tendency to pick out young people and check for electronics and fake branded goods.

They pick out different people from flights of Suriname and Colombia for 'internal' investigation.

 

The Oneseg option is basically a way to receive a TV signal on the go in Japan. I've read that you don't get that good a signal when you're travelling over 20 km/h, so I didn't bother getting it.

I am going to assume that the tuner would be installed in a very similar manner to the Sprint device in the TZ, considering they would have designed an area that would suit both devices. Based on that, it would indeed be possible to "upgrade" your Japanese spec. TZ. It would not, however, be an easy thing to do, and will probably cost a lot if you have to buy the parts from Sony USA.

 

never mind. still waiting for mine.

 

That's what I thought. Oh well, I will continue to wait for a model with broadband modem and 64GB SSD, cause that's what me needs.

 

If I want to have a broadband wireless modem on my TZ90, what's the best way to do it?

 

I suppose get an Expresscard modem.

 

Mine is arrived august 10 ( see attached photo). But not arrived at my home. Arrived at her home ! So the distance between my TZ and me is still 15700 km (9770 miles). Still one month to wait . Fortunately three weeks of holidays begin for me tomorrow. It's a good way to forget all that a moment.

 

hey pepito, is that wall mount only for Japan 110v ? Can I possibly get one for 240V and New Zealanad Adaptor..??

From what I know, the Adaptor that comes with the TZ is just the standard one ? so it goes like

Wall-----------------[]---------------Laptop , right?

 

man if I were you pepito i'll just tell her ass to ship it to me asap!!

 

also if that would mean you had to pay $400 extra?

 

why would it cost $400 more?

 

ok nvm I saw that vat on the previous post, I'd wait too, but I guess i'm totally new of the vat %.. i'm in the good ol united states =D

 

Man I just watched the movie casino royale, the new james bond movie.. well not so new but first time watching it~ anyways anyone know what computer he was carrying around in that movie? I think it looks like a tx model, but then it looked a bit bigger than a tx.. anways seeing that laptop made me more eager in getting the tz....

 

that would indeed be the tx. you could have picked it up for 4 grand:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/20/sony-kicks-out-007-edition-vaio-tx-dsc-t50b-cybershot/

 

Down to $3,499 CAD now. I guess they were not that popular?

 

August 13, 2007 16:53 Tokyo - Japan Shipment picked up

 

That was fast! It seems that your TZ was one of the last units made before Sony summer vacations.

 

yes i am going to get a new speed record!

and thanks for your recommendation for PJ, i am very impressed by their speed.

 

Will they undervalue the package? Are you ready to take the risk for not paying the VAT?

 

yes, i'm playing the dice!

undervalued at 50%

i'll let you know how it works out.

 

I guess Sony went a bit crazy before their holidays. I hear some others received their's too.

I hope that doesn't mean that there may be some assembly/installation errors.