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    Why is the Sony VAIO FE690 so cheap?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by AbN610, Jun 7, 2006.

  1. AbN610

    AbN610 Notebook Evangelist

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    Why is the Sony VAIO FE690 with the Geforce 7600 graphics card so cheap? It is cheaper than the older FE590. Why is that. The graphics card is supposedely better, right? Is this the real NVidia GeForce Go 7600 card that is supposed to be comparable with the ATI Radeon X1600? I can't understand why it is so cheap and because of that, I am hesitant to buy it. I keep getting a feeling that the graphics card only has 128mb of dedicated vram, even though it should be 256. Does anyone have any ideas about this?
     
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  2. er12345

    er12345 Notebook Guru

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    how much does it cost?
     
    er12345, Jun 7, 2006
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    matt_h1 Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Im fairly sure it is 128mb of dedicated, at least thats what I read a while ago.
     
    matt_h1, Jun 7, 2006
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