Official Sony VAIO AW Series 18.4" Owners thread

[BrianR]

AW is actually okay for gaming with the 9600 GT. It is a okay medium graphic card. Of course, if you are really into gaming, I will look into laptops with X700 or above graphic cards (I mean the Gateway 7811 is the cheapest gaming laptop you can buy at bestbuy now for like $1250 on special).

I dont really do a lot of gaming. I am actually looking forward to diablo III, thats probably the only game I would even play.

But its nice to have the options to play games if I want to.

[NGH]

the 18.4" screen would be best paired with an 9800m GTS that would be great for gaming. X9100, Q9100, Q9200, QX9300 CPU options would also be sweet.

[DetlevCM]

Consider please that people should be able to pay for that laptop and you don't want to cool it with liquid nitrogen

[happyprozak]

Does anyone have more information on the screen? Is it still going to be a TN panel but with an improved LED lighting system? If this is an 8-bit ips panel with led lighting then I'm going to have to seriously consider this over an hdtv+ps3 combo.

*edit*

Ok..., unless i completely missed something, on the US site the adobe rgb screen is a 624 dollar upgrade.

For that price they better drop in an ips screen. Color shifting from TN panels is NOT photography friendly.

[happyprozak]

bah double post

[cylob]

Laptopmag.com has published a review of the VGN-AW180Y/Q version.

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/lapt...n-aw180yq.aspx

It seems like their biggest complaint was that the price is too high which is not very surprising considering that they tested a version with SSD.

Also they didn’t like the design. I am waiting until I see it in real life before I make up my mind about it. I am not sure I will like the glossy lid. I think I would have preferred a matte finish all-around…

[happyprozak]

Laptopmag.com has published a review of the VGN-AW180Y/Q version.

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/lapt...n-aw180yq.aspx

It seems like their biggest complaint was that the price is too high which is not very surprising considering that they tested a version with SSD.

Also they didn’t like the design. I am waiting until I see it in real life before I make up my mind about it. I am not sure I will like the glossy lid. I think I would have preferred a matte finish all-around…

Thanks for the link! The reviewer claimed 180 degree viewing angles! Amazing this is the only laptop that isn't a 12 inch tablet with a screen that isn't TN. I still want to see some more pics and reviews and I'd like to still know what type of panel is being used but unless someone else releases a laptop with a non-tn screen it'll be hard for me not to buy this. My one concern is that tv reviewer said that the laptop couldn't play the Blu ray movie without a few hiccups. Will have to investigate more on that but with a 9600gt it should play buttery smooth even at 1080p. Sounds very odd. Anyways there are rumors of apple and dell also releasing rgb screens sometime this year but we will see if that comes to fruition.
A laptop with a screen like this

[BrianR]

Anyone found any coupon codes for the AW?

[meansizzler]

Their six lamp technology as seen in the FW series is awfull, washed out image with poor viewing angles, wonder how the 3 chip looks, in my mind the TZ has the best screen, 1366*768 on a 11.1" LED display with deep blacks and great viewing angles, a photo editors dream..

[happyprozak]

Their six lamp technology as seen in the FW series is awfull, washed out image with poor viewing angles, wonder how the 3 chip looks, in my mind the TZ has the best screen, 1366*768 on a 11.1" LED display with deep blacks and great viewing angles, a photo editors dream..

lol I'm sorry but the TZ does NOT have 180 degree viewing angles because it is a TN screen meaning it has poor viewing angles and mediocore color reproduction and thus it is not even close to being a photo editors dream. All current TN panels are 6 bit! That alone makes them poor for accurate color reproduction. Does the TZ have better than average viewing angles? Yeah probably, and by laptop standards the screen is probably really nice. I don't think you realize what 180 degrees viewing angles really look and what 100% adobe rgb color reproduction mean. Once you see a screen like that your jaw will drop. I haven't seen the Sony AW but I have seen an IPS screen with 100% adobe rgb color reproduction and its simply amazing and thats why I'm excited to see if this screen can live up to those expectations.