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Eug Wanker · May 15, 2006, 03:45 PM

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harrisjamieh · May 15, 2006, 03:47 PM

17", not 18

Eug Wanker · May 15, 2006, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by harrisjamieh

17", not 18

17.8"

production_coordinator · May 15, 2006, 04:22 PM

Very cool...

...but you are paying for the newness of many of those technologies.

angelmb · May 15, 2006, 04:22 PM

Designed for use with the next-generation Microsoft Windows Vista

So, it comes a 64 bit intel CPU?, I have read somewhere that it (a 64 bit CPU) is going to be mandatory to run Vista… don't know if such affirmation is just marketing propaganda…

sek929 · May 15, 2006, 04:28 PM

Wow you can burn Blu-ray discs at 1x!!!

Wait, that's stupid. I even waited till DVD Burners could do over 16x to get mine.

I guess I just don't get early-adopters of new tech.

Kerrigan · May 15, 2006, 04:30 PM

Does it have UMD?

Eug Wanker · May 15, 2006, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by angelmb

Designed for use with the next-generation Microsoft Windows Vista

So, it comes a 64 bit intel CPU?, I have read somewhere that it (a 64 bit CPU) is going to be mandatory to run Vista… don't know if such affirmation is just marketing propaganda…

Vista does not require 64-bit. Where did you get that idea?

angelmb · May 15, 2006, 05:04 PM

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

Vista does not require 64-bit. Where did you get that idea?

A friend told me about it, -he read it in microsoft' spain website-, he was thinking about selling his Sawtooth and his PC replacing both with an iMac (intel model), but he was afraid he would not be able to run Vista once it finally shipped… and it has to run windows now and then due to work issues, for the rest he runs Mac OS X.

Hal06 · May 15, 2006, 05:16 PM

An optical drive with a caddy… so bad looking, and coming from a laptop so easy to damage.

I know, it seems to burn BR disc, but compare how it looks with the slot loading PS3 BR -read only-drive, cause it is slot loading, right?

exca1ibur · May 15, 2006, 05:59 PM

2x 100GB HDs in RAID? On a laptop? A bit overkill there? I guess this ment to be a full desktop replacement. One thing that is always nice about the Vaio, are their XBRITE displays are fantastic.

Eug Wanker · May 15, 2006, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by exca1ibur

2x 100GB HDs in RAID? On a laptop? A bit overkill there? I guess this ment to be a full desktop replacement.

Holy crap I didn't even notice that. Yeah, that's a bit much, although I guess it'd help with the video editing.

I'm always wary of RAID 0 though. If one drive goes, both are fscked.

One thing that is always nice about the Vaio, are their XBRITE displays are fantastic.

Well, I hate XBRITE screens. Way too much glare.

MaxPower2k3 · May 15, 2006, 06:07 PM

that thing draws 150 watts of power (macbook is 85 watts by comparison) and even the Sony hyped-up battery life estimate is 1.5 to 2 hours. 2 striped 5400RPM drives? why not a single 7200 drive? or at least 2 separate ones, rather than doubling your failure rate and making any chance of data recovery impossible. Also no gigabit ethernet, and the tuner is only SD, not HD.

Eug Wanker · May 15, 2006, 06:17 PM

It also weighs eight and a half pounds. Still, that's not as much as some of the other laptop monsters I've seen.

hickey · May 15, 2006, 07:43 PM

holy crap thats some machine.

I wonder if the burns you get from using it on your lap are 1st degree or second.