Official Sony VAIO AW Series 18.4" Owners thread

[Wolfpup]

perhaps the computer was set to balanced power setting and not top performance? I noticed that when I set it to power saving or balanced perfornance is not always smooth at times.

Cant agree more with ascariss. And remember, you need to ALWAYS plug the power supply if you want the fastest performance.

This ran fine, but then all of a sudden got unresponsive, sort of in bursts. I doubt it was the hardware-probably just all the bloat installed on there. I don't even know that it was Sony installed bloat-I mean limewire? Probably just people messing around with it.

[ascariss]

I don't know, my FW ran fine with the bloatware even installed so not sure it as software connected. Boths fw at futureshop were set to balanced when I checked last time.

[Wolfpup]

Yeah, but Limewire? That isn't something Sony would include, is it? This may have been gunked up with who knows what from people messing with it in the store. I really doubt it had anything to do with hardware...at least I hope not!

[nons_]

I ordered today at Sony Style and will get my AW 11S/B on monday. I will post a little review then and can answer questions

[Wolfpup]

Oooh, oooh, Fold on it! Pretty please?

[Rushmeat]

My AW runs terribly on Balanced and Power saver. Works flawlessly on High Power.

Limewire certainly was not included on mine, and it's a super slim to none chance that it was placed there by Sony for the demo model.... Most likely some kid who came in and was being stupid. I remember a day at Best Buy which I brought my flash drive and actually installed, stood, and watched 3DMark06 on the Gateway FX laptops. That made the sales kid LOL.

But hey, it was a good purchase.

[DetlevCM]

Just wondering... limewire - as this is peer to peer software mainly used for illegal services, couldn't ths hurt Sony? You may want to make them aware of that.
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PS: Peer top peer discussions are not liked in this forum - we do not need to elaborate.
And just for the record - I don't use them.
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Bringing in something like 3dmark is actually a god idea - I mean, nobody can complain if you with to know how powerful a computer you plan to buy is, isn't it?

[Wolfpup]

That's my impression, but I'm not really familiar with that kind of thing, I've just sort of heard the name.

At any rate, yeah, I was almost certain it had nothing to do with the laptop, just it being misconfigured and gunked up. (I suspect most Windows problems are just people not knowing what they're doing, because mysteriously I never have them on and of the systems I support. It annoys me when clueless people bash Vista and go on about how wonderful OS X is).

[kareard]

I am having issues hooking up my aw190 to my samsung 1080p. The screen on the tv is cut off along all 4 edges. It is like it is zoomed in a little. I called sony and they were no help. I tried changing the display settings in vista and in the NVIDIA display settings and no luck.

Does anyone have a solution!!!

[Wolfpup]

How are you connecting it?