All About Vaio

[ultraman]

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Hallo salam kenal, yg punya vaio ayo bergabung disini, gw ada pertanyaan nih seputar vaio kok dokumentasinya gak lengkap yah cd recovery gak dikasih dan printed documentationnya juga gak ada

[HiBiKi]

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yang bener tuh? belinya baru atau bekas?... sony biasanya ngasih manual dan bundle nya paling lengkap ko`, sesuai harganya yang mahal... ^_^

jangan-jangan kena tipu ama yang jual tuh... tapi klo belinya bekas sih wajar aja... ^_^

[ultraman]

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gak kok, gw udah baca reviewnya dari notebook review emang minusnya itu, berlaku untuk semua vaio tipe terbaru

[handy_txg]

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gw baru beli 3 bulan yg lalu isi nya lengkap kok....
cd recovernya dvd...
komp eror...tingal format....enak nya lsg semua driver ama...program2 yg dikasih pertamanya kemabli......
tp masa sony mengurangin kualitas service nya seh??? padahal kan cd recover penting banget..... coba aja tanya ke penjual nya.....

[HiBiKi]

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oh iya, klo notebook yang baru-baru kan memang dah gak pake cd recover lagi... seharusnya di hdd sudah ada recovery console nya... coba baca manualnya lagi... harusnya ada keterangan untuk membuat recovery disk bwat jaga-jaga klo recovery console nya jg rusak... ^_^ cmiiw

[ultraman]

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yup betul yg hibiki bilang, cd recoverynya emang disimpen di harddisk , jadi kita tinggal burn ke dvd untuk recoverynya, yg jadi masalah emang gak dikasih manualnya dari sonynya jadi mesti via online

@handy , pakai vaio tipe apa

oh ya ini ada saya kutip review untuk vaio T series

It's light 3.1 lb (ad adv) and it runs very long with that standard battery (yes, the one that sticking out in the back). I got no less than 5 hr in real life - depends on how much I spent. Of course, spinning the optical drive - like watching movies will make it go shorter but this is one of the mega-size LiMh batteries - 7200 mA. One of which that you will forget to concerns about having enough battery juice on the road. Did I tell you that if you stay with just doc/regular work - it has gone as long as 6+ hr for me.

The other good is the screen, wide format - good for movies. I wish that I can rotate and make it display in vertical - that'll be perfect for document job.

There are things I dislike, hate, loathe about this notebook as well (despite still having to purchase it).

1) Sony's evil documentations/package. There is no printed user manual as you can guess. But there was not even the pdf file of it. Sony USA provide you the very poor help file that let you browse thru and not even helpful. Guess, we do not need to learn about the machine, everyone know where to hit to get what they want ? A little tip though, you can download the pdf file of the software and hardware user manual from Sony europe. They're not exactly the same but close.

-sony doesn't give you any CD/DVD software driver. Not even the copy or Microsoft WXP that you actually paid for it. Instead, they stole 5 GB out of your Hard drive to use for the recovery. Everyone who's been using computers will know how reliable that will work when the system crash. This is really an upset for me because after all, I can see only 28 GB avilable on my adv 40 GB harddrive. Although, I believe that I can retrieve those space back, but so far, I'm still unsuccessful.

Update 2/5/05
I finally successfully retrieve that HDD space. All you have to do is burning those recovery software and restart the computer and let it re-install the whole thing. The whole process took a while especially the part that after you reboot into WXP and sony try to install all the crappy softwares without asking you to choose. After all of that , it took me hourssssssssss to finalize it the way i like. So i back up the HDD and will not reinstall this again.

Did I tell you that you can actually purchase these recovery disc from Sony website for $11.xx. And that can't be included in 2K valued laptop. Oh, you also can burn CD (6 required) or DVD depending on which optial drive you have.

2. I hate the battery to sticking out in the back. I'm glad that I can get 7200 mAh from this but the protruding part is a drawback in term of a design. I wish some third party will make a smaller version e.g. 3600 mAh and the batt is not protruding.

Update about the battery. 2/4/05
I recently purchase the 2nd battery and find no way to charge the battery without using the notebook. It's troublesome when you plan for a long day meeting and want to have 2 full battery ready for the day and may not have enought time to charge of having to wake up at 3 am to swap them. After I fuss around with some other 3rd party universal Lithium battery charger. I found that sony's Lithium battery go all ways deep and you can't really crack it. It's been smartly designed and there will be no Sony Vaio T charger unless they make one (which they not, I calle). So afterall, I spent hours making custome cables that connect all those 6 prongs from the back of Notebook and connect to the battery and it has a y split to the 2nd battery. The note book still see only 1 battery anyway (it will choose to see one that has less charge) but it actually charging for both. With the notebook connecting to 2 batteries in paralell, there is 14400 mA to charge instead of 7200. I time it charge from 0% for both, it took 7 hr which is about twice of what it need for charging one. The only benefit is that you don't have to get up at night to swap charge the 2nd. Of course, this is the risky process and I can't be responsible for your outcome.

Update 3/9/05
After learning about Lithium battery from the Guru. It turns out that the heat from the device is shortening the battery life. It has then, turn out that the ugly sticking out of Sony T battery - serve some purpost. By doing that, only 15-20% of surface area that has actual contact with the main hot part of notebook. Tricky...

3. Keyboard is tiny. Thank god, my hand are small. And having been using Libretto 50CT for years, this is much bigger already. They keyboard on R100 will blow you away though.

4. I'm a little fiesty about the memory stick slot. It'd be much better if it's CF/SD slot. Something that Sony has to get over with.

Ayo yang punya vaio kita sharing disini

[handy_txg]

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saya pake Fs-series...VGN-fs15gp klo ndak salah.....untuk keperluan sehari mantab.....buat nge game ga gitu mantab,game2 saat ini masih bisa dimaenin kaya wow,half life2,ama battle filed2 tp pas pas an banget...hahhaha makkanya aku jual ke cc ku aku beli desktop... hahhahaha

[Nage]

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Laptop Vaio gw,PCG-TR1/B

baru beli bekas di jepang,keluaran taon 2003 si,cman kacao abis ganti os xp bhs inggris,camera,bluetooth ma wi fi nga mao jalan,hiks...

[ultraman]

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@nage , mungkin ada drivernya yg kurang, klo mau cari manual & driver ke sony europe aja lebih lengkap

[Silvestre]

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vaio yang buat musik gimana???keliatannya masih bagusan Ipod dari dia, padahal gue anti pake Ipod...hahhaha...kayak Nokia gitu..sejuta umat, so gue mau ngincar2 Sony punya yang beda ndiri