Official Sony VAIO AW Series 18.4" Owners thread

[Wolfpup]

I don't know what that means, what they were talking about. You don't set anything in the BIOS when you're installing a hard drive. The old drive is SATA, and so is the new one.

[gpc]

Hello everybody!
I'm looking for some information about AW11S...
For job reasons, and also because I really don't like Vista, i need to buy a laptop where it's possible to install WinXP. The Sony staff of course tells you it's not possible, but I found some clue on internet about people who actually changed the OS to XP.
Do you have any more precise information if it's something possible? Anyone did it?
And, a question for people who have it: how do you carry it? I checked the size and it won't fit in any case I've got... Do you find that the size is excessive? Sometimes I take my laptop with me on the airplane, I'm not sure they will agree to let me take a computer bigger than my hand luggage...

[samuelll]

Hello everybody!
I'm looking for some information about AW11S...
For job reasons, and also because I really don't like Vista, i need to buy a laptop where it's possible to install WinXP. The Sony staff of course tells you it's not possible, but I found some clue on internet about people who actually changed the OS to XP.
Do you have any more precise information if it's something possible? Anyone did it?

You can do this on any laptop, on any computer with any operating system.

And, a question for people who have it: how do you carry it? I checked the size and it won't fit in any case I've got... Do you find that the size is excessive? Sometimes I take my laptop with me on the airplane, I'm not sure they will agree to let me take a computer bigger than my hand luggage...

I would really like to know the answer to this too!

[Rushmeat]

Fits in my 17" laptop bag for some reason... guess my bag was just big...

Edit: I think it's cause it's not THAT much bigger than a 17" only diagonal, so you can cram it inside most 17" bags I'd imagine.

[Rushmeat]

Thank you for your answer, but I need a little more explanation.

On the official forum of assistance Sony, a member said about vaio AW11 S / B

"If you intend to put a new hard disk (SSD), forget it impossible to change itself in some bios! No option on the cache, for example, or even disable the AHCI! "

Is this true?

Thank you in advance.

As far as I know that's only if you install XP that you run into AHCI trouble, not a new drive itself.

[gpc]

Fits in my 17" laptop bag for some reason... guess my bag was just big...

Edit: I think it's cause it's not THAT much bigger than a 17" only diagonal, so you can cram it inside most 17" bags I'd imagine.

Hi, thanks for the answer.
Well, actually I don't know if it's my 17" that's smaller than the usual, but this 18.4" is about 4cm longer than my actual pc and it doesn't fit in any place...

[gpc]

You can do this on any laptop, on any computer with any operating system.

I know it's just a matter to find the drivers, but since this laptop is new I was wondering if the hardware producers released the XP drivers...

[headinstars]

As far as I know that's only if you install XP that you run into AHCI trouble, not a new drive itself.

I don't know what that means, what they were talking about. You don't set anything in the BIOS when you're installing a hard drive. The old drive is SATA, and so is the new one.

OK

Thank you for your responses.

Is it someone already has a hard drive 10 000 rpm in its Vaio AW11?

They are a little thicker. 9.5 mm for a 7000 rpm and 15 mm for a 10 000 rpm.

Sorry for my english :-(

[nons_]

a 10.000 rpm drive in a notebook? my strong guess is the thermal design is not sufficient anyways.

I finally decided to get the AW11S/B, and now it's sold out at SonyStyle! grr :P

btw, anyone knows what the second letter means? I mean this: AW11S/B, AW11Z/B, AW11M/H, AW11XU/Q

[headinstars]

a 10.000 rpm drive in a notebook? my strong guess is the thermal design is not sufficient anyways.

I finally decided to get the AW11S/B, and now it's sold out at SonyStyle! grr :P

btw, anyone knows what the second letter means? I mean this: AW11S/B, AW11Z/B, AW11M/H, AW11XU/Q

You sold out your AW11S ? (if i understood)

But i think if you change just the hard drive by a WE scorpio 320go 7200 rpm 16Mo SATA, it's a very very good notebook !