Vaio SA/SB/SC/SD - Soldered or Removable CPU?

So, I've been looking through things and have been thinking of buying the SA, it seems like a pretty good price/performance/size/weight.

I was wondering, however, if the S series CPU is soldered on or removable. Because I am a terrible terrible person and have no issue voiding a perfectly good warranty.

I imagine someone out there put some AS5 or something on their CPU on an SB or other variant and may have caught whether it was removable or not!

 

you devil! you want to put a quad in there dont you!

 

D= You must be psychic!

Sata 3 SSD (not sure which, I've been partial to OCZ owning 4x 30GB Vertex Turbo, 1x 60GB Vertex Turbo, 4x 60GB Vertex 2, and 1x 120GB Vertex 2, but I'm not sold on the Vertex 3 yet!)

Upgrade the RAM myself of course...and then an i7-2630QM. We have a Z12 in the house (my Fiance's) and I want something at least in a similar class...lightweight, but powerful. However, I also want to do some development and heavy work-related multitasking, so I'd like something nice and beefy!

 

dont know how you havent faced sandforce issues, I would go with the intel 510, if speed is needed, or the M4 or the C300 from crucial

keep in mind that you only get 1 ram slot, and no its not populated

I would go for the thinkpad x1 + vidock if you cant go for the new Z

the x1 will get a quad update, and for me that runs VMs its going to be a bliss to actually dedicate some cores for each VM, I ran

however Im thinking of doing the same mod on the new Z

 

I appreciate the input on the Thinkpad, but one of the primary reasons for going the SA route is for the resolution. 1600x900 is my minimum resolution as I've found 1366x768 severely lacking for me (my current work-provided laptop).

Part of me wants to wait for the new Z, but part of me does -not- want to drop that much money on a laptop. If only I wasn't such a stickler for weight/size, I'd just get a 15"!

 

doesn't the vidock connect by expresscard? what new 13.3" has expresscard now?

 

I read that somewhere...let me get this ... Sony sold only 1 memory slot (and is soldered) right? would also applied to the C series? as a result we only have only 1 slot for ram upgrade but, if you buy the laptop with 4GB ram (4gbx2 as sony) and you want to upgrate to 8gb you have to buy 6gbx1...i guess...BUT there is no module of 6GB ...so ?

 

regarding the C series I think there are 2 ram slots.

regarding the S series and the thinkpad x1, there is 4g on the motherboard, and there is a slot there that is not populated, so to get 8g, just buy 1 dimm of 4g of ram, if you want 12g, get a 8g 1 dimm memory

I think only the x220, x1, and the 2580p (or something like that) from HP have it

 

sorry typo mistake..sony as the C series comes with 4GB (2GBx2) DDR3-SDRAM-1333 and S Series 4GB (4GB Fixed SDRAM Onboard + 1 Open Slot)-1333 DDR3-SDRAM...so in the S series you only need 1 4gb dimm...

but says nothing else about the C series so I assume that no slot is soldered

 

no it isnt, based on the info you provided

 

Info confirmed in C series

How to change the memory and hard drive in a Sony Vaio VPCCA

 

Well, looks like I've managed to answer my own question. CPU looks to be soldered on the SB, so I can't imagine it's socketed on an SA.

Bah, why can't we get a <14" lightweight laptop with a dedicated GPU and a great high-resolution screen with a quad-core? I'm not asking too much (lol)...

 

Look at the bright side, probably saved you some money. Quad core wouldve blown up the thermals.

 

Starting with 2011, you can get 15" with dedicated GPU and quad-core CPU. It's still very new. Maybe in a year or two we'll get quad-cores in <14". Intel predicted that quad-cores will eventually become mainstream (like dual-cores are now).

 

we are already getting quads in 14'', we got it last year also

 

My previous work laptop (Dell E6420) was a 14" with a Quad-core. Just a bit too heavy and expensive for what I want though...

 

No hi-res display, but it looks like the Acer 3820TG can easily add a last gen quad and the cooling system should have no problems. http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/579913-acer-aspire-timelinex-3820tg-i7-720qm-upgrade-2.html I use my Acer with a 24" FHD LG external display anyway when I'm at the office.

Bronsky