Why no recent driver updates for VGN-SZ450?

Just curious..........I have a sony sz450 and when looking on sony site for driver updates for this computer floaded with windows vista, it seems there have been no new drivers or software updates at all since february 2008. Having gone to computer and software sites over the years, it seems kind of unusual that no new updates have come out for 9 months. I asked the sony tech support people this and the answer I get is that they are busy testing new drivers and just release them slowly.

Any thoughts?

 

Not really odd, updates mainly come out when there's a problem. Those companies don't care enough to make updated packages if the current ones work.

 

You can update some drivers yourself like the Intel hardaware (chipset, gpu & WLAN) and the nVidia gpu.

If your SZ has the same hardware as the later SZ series you can use those drivers too. Sony don't list them in the SZ4 list of drivers.

Download and extract the drivers for the SZ6/7 series and look for text files which say which hardware model they are for then check against your own hardware.

Or extract the new drivers in to sub folders and in Vista's Device Manager select each device and can the sub folders by selecting the root folder and if a newer driver is for your hardware it will update.