Official Sony SB/SA/SC/SD Series Owners' Thread

[ajnauron]

Far from macbook pro
The screen is average.
But, it's matte
BTW, mine is B2 stepping. going to return !

Wait how did you find out it was a B2 stepping? Are they all B2 stepping? Do you know if Sony's replaced them with B3s yet?

[yun]

CPU Z...............
select motherboard section

[nutral]

Who cares if it is B2 ? there are only 2 sata ports connected so you never even use the broken sata ports. Everything about the laptop would be just the same with a B2 or B3. So i wouldn't return it, doesn't make a difference.

[Karamazovmm]

Who cares if it is B2 ? there are only 2 sata ports connected so you never even use the broken sata ports. Everything about the laptop would be just the same with a B2 or B3. So i wouldn't return it, doesn't make a difference.

the problem is not the amount, but which are used. If yun could post which ports are used we can figure it out if it matters.

[nutral]

Hmm, seems that port 0 is used in the internal harddrive and port 4 is used for the odd.
Why didnt sony use 1 ? Ill put in my harddrive anyway performance degradation isn't that bad, and i don't really need that much speed on a storage bay.
Still very sloppy of sony, but no reason to return it though.

[Karamazovmm]

Hmm, seems that port 0 is used in the internal harddrive and port 4 is used for the odd.
Why didnt sony use 1 ? Ill put in my harddrive anyway performance degradation isn't that bad, and i don't really need that much speed on a storage bay.
Still very sloppy of sony, but no reason to return it though.

if its B2, than well, I would exchange it. It is very sloppy of them indeed

[soguxu]

Are you sure port 4 is used? I have the Vaio CA with a B2 and port 0 is hdd and port 1 is odd, so no harm in using B2 for me. I double checked from both Device manager (location) and Intel RST application, and they both report ports 0 and 1. Would you mind posting screenshots?

[avoid]

This kind of changes everything ... I was going to buy this and add a HDD instead of the ODD. I guess that's a no go in this situation

[Spooly]

Yes, I just received it yesterday.I had placed the order on 14th march. It does not have fingerprint reader (specs dont mention now, but it did when I placed the order).
BTW I got 10% discount

I knew I should have pushed harder...

[monet]

I ordered one on 11 March and still no word. The order just states it is in processing for almost a month now. Maybe I should try to get a discount due to the lack of the fingerprint reader. After seeing some SB's at the Sony Store, I may cancel altogether. The displays on them were horrible...dull and washed out with terrible viewing angles.