Official Vaio Y 13.3 Series Owners Lounge

[kewe86]

Hi, just got my new sony vaio y series laptop from Amazon £699.

Intel pentium u5400 @ 1.2ghz
4gb ram
Windows Home Premium 64 bit
320gb hdd

I used to use the model with the su4100 (VPCY11M1E) and liked the palm rest design compared to my new model (VPCY21S1ESI) which is plain. Itsnot a big problem just wondering if anyone else noticed this and had preference?

I have only had it for 9 hours and so far so good. It feels really tough and well built. I am so glad I went for the Y series rather than the S. I think I saved a lot of money going for the Y and it meets my basic computing needs.

Does anyone else have the model that am using and also a color profile to use on the screen?

Also, my battery wobbles in the new model but never did in the old.

thanks

[selekkkkka]

I don't understand why people go through such pain of re-installing all software and drivers just to remove the bloatware that comes from factory. It would make sense if you are putting in a new hard disk or changing the OS. Is it not much easier to use the Windows un-installer to remove unwanted software? You can boot into safemode to do this if you worry about things not getting removed completely. I just don't see any benefits in doing a "clean" install other than killing time. The bloatware that comes with this laptop is not really that bad.

Like I mentioned, the primary intention was not to remove bloatware but to change the OS language. As far as I know, there are two ways of doing this: 1 - paying through the nose to ge W7 Ultimate and downloading required language packs, or 2 - Clean install of current version of Windows in the desired language. The first option was a no no for me so I went for the second, which for me also has the "added bonus" of removing any bloatware. There is no way I would bother reinstalling JUST to remove bloatware.

Anyway I've done the clean install and it was actually a lot less troublesome than I expected. It appears to have gone well however I will be testing the laptop over the weekend to make sure everything works and will update next week...

[alanbrenton]

When bing was alive, it was only $50 more. Now we cant talk about it. I miss bing.

So all you had to do was search on Bing and you got a discount? Or was there a sign up required? I guess the deal is dead, huh?

[weber24601]

Seems like nobody on this thread has reported a problem playing HD video from iTunes, etc. Has anyone connected the Vaio to their TV using HDMI or VGA and played HD video without issues?

I'm so close to pulling the trigger on a VAIO Y purchase but I can't quite get over the 1.2GHz processor speed. Adobe says the minimum system requirements for HD in flash 10.1 are a 3GHz Pentium 4. I understand that the i3 architecture can be a lot more powerful than this on benchmarks, but a lot of that depends on software being written to take advantage of the architecture fully...

[yv1650c]

can anybody here post the Windows Experience Index (WEI) for the i5/ati model?

thank you.

[Avor]

Guys, could you please post your user experience regarding the CPU? My friend is ready to buy one of these, but the problem is that here in Russia the only available CPU config is U3400, which sounds like crap. She won't do anything beyond basic word/excel/surfing/movies with moderate multitasking, but man, 1.06Ghz today does look lame. So if you commented how does your U5400 handle those tasks, I might have some sort of estimation.

[milesc3]

In addition to all the requests I'd like to know about the "loose battery" issue and your experiences with Sony's support. Strange that they don't offer an on-site option even for their more expensive laptops.

[dmk2]

Seems like nobody on this thread has reported a problem playing HD video from iTunes, etc. Has anyone connected the Vaio to their TV using HDMI or VGA and played HD video without issues?

I'm so close to pulling the trigger on a VAIO Y purchase but I can't quite get over the 1.2GHz processor speed. Adobe says the minimum system requirements for HD in flash 10.1 are a 3GHz Pentium 4. I understand that the i3 architecture can be a lot more powerful than this on benchmarks, but a lot of that depends on software being written to take advantage of the architecture fully...

I can confirm that 1080p YouTube and 1080p Flash video work fine on both the SU7300 and i3-330UM models with integrated graphics. CPU utilization is around 35-40% for YouTube 1080p and can get over 50% with Flash 1080p in version 10.1.

EDIT: Those CPU numbers are for streaming video. When playing 1080p video from the hard drive, CPU utilization stays around 20-25%.

Surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be any reduction in video performance and not much increase in CPU utilization when driving a 1920x1080p TV through HDMI.

I did notice some intermittent connection/sync problems when trying the HDMI output with a Pioneer plasma TV, but I didn't really look into it to see what the problem might be. I didn't have any problems with connecting an HP 1080p LCD monitor through HDMI. Haven't tried the VGA output.

In addition to all the requests I'd like to know about the "loose battery" issue and your experiences with Sony's support. Strange that they don't offer an on-site option even for their more expensive laptops.

The loose battery issue spans the whole VAIO lineup to varying degrees. I put some masking tape on the battery to take up the slack and now it's snug.

[RCYK]

can anybody here post the Windows Experience Index (WEI) for the i5/ati model?

thank you.

WEI is 5.0
Processor: 5.4
Memory: 5.4
Graphics: 5.0
Gaming: 6.2
Hard Disk: 5.9

Little disappointed at the CPU score. My old E8400 desktop gets 6.6. Have not tried any games yet on the ATI graphics. Getting just 4-5 hours battery life on light usage (50% brightness, wi-fi, internet and office work). Battery does not wobble at all on mine. Overall I am quite happy since there is nothing in this category that is more solid, better built or faster, at least not yet.

[saphire]

I wrote my question on a separate thread, and then I saw this one. I`m new to this forum, I don`t know where my question fits bets, so I write it here again, maybe I can get some clarification on this issue.

I am looking for a light, portable and well built laptop and I decided to buy a Sony Vaio VPCY11S1E which is a little faster than the Vaio VPCY21S1E.

Light, battery lasts around 7 hrs, great keyboard and touch-pad (which I value as I type a lot) but something worries me.
I read in reviews that when on battery the display are dimmed automatic and there is not option for the user to set it higher. How dimmed...I cannot figure out only from the numbers I read on the review.

Anyway, I find this rather strange, portability means often taking the machine outside where is a lot of light and you need to set the display at its highest brightness. Same stands for watching the movie, when you need the display to be very bright. This would be a real turn off for me, what is the use of long battery life if you have to struggle to see the display?

I wonder if anybody here owning this laptop found the display rather dull on battery or had problem with the disply.

And an additional question, as I am not good in computers, what is the difference between ony Vaio VPCY11S1E and ony Vaio VPCY11S1E/S?

thank you!