Official Sony Vaio CW Core 2 Duo Series Owner's Thread

[thecincibengals]

Hi, just joined the forum. I ordered a new cw from sonystyle as soon as it became available. Specs below:
Jet Black
2.53 ghz Processor
4 gig of ram
250 gig hdd
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT230M GPU (512MB VRAM
Blu-ray playback

The only thing I see as a problem is the HDD, 5400 rpm. I figured there would be an option for at least a 7200 rpm drive.
Can anyone with the computer already confirm if the HDD is swappable or not?
Either way I am pretty excited for my new machine to arrive. I received an email today saying that it was being built. Any idea how long it takes for them to build one?

Thanks again!

[nicnad]

what are the specs of the Large Capacity Battery. Is it a 9 cells battery that will stick out of the laptop or just a standard battery with a higher performance?

[bogeyman]

anyone know how i can contact sony and find out why they are releasing different specced modells for uk and us?

[interbear]

anyone know how i can contact sony and find out why they are releasing different specced modells for uk and us?

I just called sonystyle UK to ask exactly that.

They have no information (and no idea) why the UK options differ from the US options. I took a closer look and the differences are :-

Processor - best processor option in UK is P8700 (2.53GHz), best processor option in USA is T9600 (2.8 GHz) - expensive though,$200 more than the P8700.

Hard Drive - UK options are 320GB and 500 GB. In the USA you can also opt for a 250GB or 400GB hard drive.

RAM - UK options are 3GB or 4GB. In the USA you can also opt for either 6GB or 8GB. Again, at a cost, 8GB is $350 more than 4GB.

Sony UK have obviously decided to limit their options, perhaps to prevent CW cannabilising sales of higher priced / higher spec models in the Vaio range?

Anyway - I think that the top spec UK version of CW is more than enough for my requirements. Think I'll buy one this weekend, although I'd prefer to do so via a Sonystyle store to get the 2 year warranty vs 1 year online.

[albertom]

this notebook have ddr2 or ddr3 ram ?
in italy
sonystyle.com say DDR3 but 99% computer shop says DDR2

i wrote to sonystyle support and it says preconfigured in shop have ddr2 and only configurable model in online sonystyle shop have ddr3... but i found a shop with ddr3 model ( confirmed it have ddr3 ) ...so what's wrong ? description error or exist two differents configurations ?

[corteen]

The one that I bought from Best Buy here in the US has the DDR3 Ram.

[albertom]

i think all model have DDR3
but when support of sonystyle.it write me of existence different model ...
what can i think ? ;-)

[interbear]

this notebook have ddr2 or ddr3 ram ?
in italy
sonystyle.com say DDR3 but 99% computer shop says DDR2

i wrote to sonystyle support and it says preconfigured in shop have ddr2 and only configurable model in online sonystyle shop have ddr3... but i found a shop with ddr3 model ( confirmed it have ddr3 ) ...so what's wrong ? description error or exist two differents configurations ?

Everywhere I've read it is specified as DDR3 RAM.

[interbear]

Question re HDMI on the Vaio CW - if I was to connect the CW to a HD TV to watch blu-ray movies, does the HDMI port provide both video and audio output to the TV? Or is there another audio port to connect to the TV or a home cinema set-up?

[albertom]

http://www.unieuro.it/informatica/no...reEvar3=search

http://compraonline.mediaworld.it/we...tegory_rn=1504

click SCHEDA TECNICA or SPECIFICHE TENICHE ...