Official Sony VAIO F Series i5/i7 owners thread *Part 3*

[Willscary]

Originally Posted by zebra3

Actually, depending on your role in that church, perhaps you are a confidant.

Nope. I would never want to know any "secrets". I simply make sure that the office runs smoothly. Our church also runs a Christian Day School with kids from pre-school through 8th grade. We have about 3,000 communicant members and our school houses between 200 and 300 students (depending on the year...enrollment fluxuates). This is a large database to keep track of...donations, tuition, lunch program, athletics, over a dozen choirs, births, deaths, baptizms, weddings, etc. Plus, we design and print our own weekly church programs...5 services plus special services for holidays, weddings, funerals, etc. Add to this a full sound booth for services and a live radio broadcast and it gets a bit more complicated than I had originally thought it would be.

All of this takes horsepower. More than I ever would have thought prior to my involvement!

Bill

[Lucky_jl]

Originally Posted by unknown_id

Hi Lucky_j,
I and a couple of others discovered ewiz website sells Samsung brand memory which is used in the F11 for the 4gb stick

SuperBiiz.com - Memory, Computer Memory, Notebook SODIMM

however looks like they are currently out of stock. This is useful as you can keep your 1 4GB stick that comes with the laptop and get another that matches.

Can someone with the F12 run cpuz and confirm they are still getting the Samsung M471B5273BH1-CH9

thanks


Do they send to Europe ? Should i consider buying from Sony ?
(i dind't found info on their website)

[hax0rJimDuggan]

Anyone swing by Best Buy to see the F12 model? I notice the gpu specs on their site conflict. One page says 330m the other 310; resolution 1600x900.

[ddmeightball]

Originally Posted by hax0rJimDuggan

Anyone swing by Best Buy to see the F12 model? I notice the gpu specs on their site conflict. One page says 330m the other 310; resolution 1600x900.

Noticed that at Bestbuy.com and at the Best Buy store here in Lincoln, NE. Their website and little information cards in store say 1GB 330m video card but the laptop itself is 1600x900. According to Sony's own website they only sell the 512mb 310m with the 1600x900 screen and the 1GB with the 1080p screen unless there are some unknown configs I haven't seen...If so, it would be odd that Sony's own website refutes that.

[GandalfPT]

Originally Posted by unknown_id

Can someone with the F12 run cpuz and confirm they are still getting the Samsung M471B5273BH1-CH9

Yes i can confirm that information for the VPCF12S1E European model. I just run cpu-z and thats the memory i have installed.

[Lucky_jl]

Originally Posted by GandalfPT

Yes i can confirm that information for the VPCF12S1E European model. I just run cpu-z and thats the memory i have installed.

So is just getting this RAM from some store and install ?
Anyone knows where the slots are ?
I supose that is one on the bottom and another under the keyboard ?

thanks

[siq911]

Originally Posted by syin

Looks like the F12s are available now on sonystyle US and Canada.

The Canadian CTO one has some weird options - probably a typo:

16.4" VAIO Display (1600x900)
16.4" VAIO Display (1600x900) Full HD [add $29.97]

Same options on both sites:
Win 7 Pro
740QM
4 GB RAM
no backlight
1080 screen
330M GPU
320G 7200rpm HDD
fresh start

Canadian $1091.50
US: 1154.99 (this is with the free ($100) HD upgrade already)

I don't see the Canadian CTO model on the Sony website. Can you post a link? I'd like to order this soon. Thanks!

[Joe Bleau]

Lots of nice photos from all angles except the bottom of the VAIO_F VPCF127FX/B on bhphotovideo.com (backlit keyboard incl.). In fact more photos than on Sonystyle.

Looks exactly like my F11_North America black.

Also: VPCF123FX/H Titanium Gray.

[MelodyMaster]

Originally Posted by considering f

@Joe Bleau

the big overhead neon lights have nothing to do with the F11 screen looking bad. May be I wasn't clear enough, but when i say i compared the FW590 to the F11, what i actually did was take the FW590 into bestbuy, put it down right next to the F11, loaded the same photographs onto the bestbuy F11 from a USB drive that were on the FW590, and pulled up the same pictures side by side. Both machines in the same lighting environment in bestbuy. and the difference was astonishing. really, not exaggerating here, it was night and day. Have you ever seen an FW590 screen? It is awesome.

What I'm left with here, is that if the F12 screen is no different, I'll buy the fw590 (sony still has them) and pay the same as the F12, with lesser CPU and memory, but it's worth it because the screen of the F is just so bad.

Originally Posted by Willscary

Then that is what you should do. You should buy the FW590 and never look back. You put a premium on the screen and feel that the FW590 has a better screen. You should not even post here again. Simply go to Best Buy and purchase the FW590.

You want a stranger, or a group of strangers, to make your decision. If you end up not liking it, then you can complain that we steered you in the wrong direction.


Bill

Considering_F, you are making a costly mistake based on the inability to read and follow a thread. The FW590 is a nice machine, yes, but I would pay FAR less for a Core2Duo than for an i7 laptop. It has been long-established that the F11's screen is horribly, badly calibrated from the factory, it is way too blue, backgrounds are too bright, meaning images are washed out, and the "automatic" light function makes the display too dim. AFTER calibration the screen looks stunning, even on my early unit with shading and inversion. The FW used an ATI GPU, the F11 an Nvidia. My guess is that they did not change the default firmware settings and the display of the F11 was still set for an ATI card, and ATI and Nvidia GPUs ARE different in their colorimetry.

YOU set up an F11/F12 and FW 490/590 side by side, YOU calibrate both with a screen utility, THEN check. The FW will give a wider viewing angle, but BOTH will have near-identical colour quality and depth.

[andresebr]

Originally Posted by Joe Bleau

"...tried to restore my pc and everything, nothing changed... well those pixels appear even in the bios"[/i] - That's the kind of troubleshooting "details" I was talking about.

If you can't transport your F to where there is an external monitor to try the video output or DIY or find a local shop that can determine if it's motherboard or video card or connections to LCD or LCD's inverter or LCD's itself then send it to Sony_repair w/o warranty in your case because bought abroad & brace yourself for an hefty repair bill.

When one buys something out of his country to save some $ but also out of warranty then one often says goodbye to the warranty. It's a gamble that I have to decide on every time I buy something like Nikon USA cameras & lenses vs. Nikon gray market products for example.

My F was bought in USA by a friend that brought it to where I live: Costa Rica. If anything breaks I have to weigh 6-8 weeks shipping round trip to Sony_USA @ best + S&H costs + damage risks + possible custom hassles vs. a DIY repair.

Just in case: does it do it on battery, did you try to plug the brick in an UPS, what happens if you change the display's resolution and/or color bits & refresh rate? Again: find an ext. monitor.

Good luck!

*****

It does that on battery, plugged, plugged without battery.... But its weird, today just when i was preparing to go the center to make them fix my laptop,but the computer was working well, those odd dots didn't appear... I haven't turned on my laptop for three days till now... But i'm sure those dots will appear any time i just have to wait, because i don't want to go to the reparation center if i can't show them the problem... I think i have bought a cursed laptop lol...