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

[jman1975]

wow, lots of comments about the display

for me, it looks fine, I didn't order a high end laptop therefore I didn't expect the display to be high end

but I'm coming from a netbook with a glossy screen, so the matte finish is...different

[avoid]

I don't know why but I think the display panel is different in the SPCSB with 0.3MP camera and the one with HD Exmor camera. Just a subjective opinion: the one that I think has the Exmor camera (a i7 display unit in my country) had [in my opinion] a much more vivid appearance and a little bit more brightness than the other display model (a lower end i5 which I think used the 0.3MP camera). I didn't see them side by side so don't kill me if I'm mistaking

Again, very odd that you cannot CTO with the Exmor camera. Could it be that it comes only with certain displays?

[yun]

The touchpad is serisouly TERRIBLE.
I'm not a picky person about touchpad, I never complain any even lots of ppl complain, like HP envy , Dell's , lenovo's......

But this one is just ************

It's so hard to use it , or u have to focus your finger because it's hard to move it when enhanc pointer precision selected
If it not enable, crap, it's hard to move it to the position u want.

Serisouly, why they use this non brand touchpad instead of the one everyone use

[taggart]

Based on online specs, thought I was getting an Exmor camera with this. Apparently not. With that plus the hybrid hdd spec(mine is Hitachi 5400rpm), sounds like false advertising to me. What's up with Sony?

Also on page 23 of the vaio manual, it states not having the battery installed with the computer running could cause a malfunction. I was planning to remove the battery while using the laptop at home to prolong the battery life but after reading this, maybe it's not a good idea. Anyone tried it?

[NomisR]

I don't know why but I think the display panel is different in the SPCSB with 0.3MP camera and the one with HD Exmor camera. Just a subjective opinion: the one that I think has the Exmor camera (a i7 display unit in my country) had [in my opinion] a much more vivid appearance and a little bit more brightness than the other display model (a lower end i5 which I think used the 0.3MP camera). I didn't see them side by side so don't kill me if I'm mistaking

Again, very odd that you cannot CTO with the Exmor camera. Could it be that it comes only with certain displays?

Base on the US models specs, even the lowest end prebuilt SB has the HD Exmor camera. I would expect all CTO to have it as well.

[j3ssr]

i will collect my sb on friday, and im really worried about the screen now (after it was delivered to the uk 10 days ago). its the one thing i took a risk with, buying before i saw. my mum has a very old vaio (7 years plus) and the screen is actually quite fine even now, compared with the usual rubbish. my zepto screen is insanely amazing, and i knew the sb wouldnt be as good as that. but i wanted a good screen. at least capable of indesign work on the go. watch a film without complaint. are you guys saying that the screen is not up to any kind of scratch? im going to be so disappointed!

[avoid]

Base on the US models specs, even the lowest end prebuilt SB has the HD Exmor camera. I would expect all CTO to have it as well.

Well, it's not the same here in Europe. Here they don't even allow you to CTO with Exmor camera

[Nc79]

Saw the new SB in sony store on tottenham court road, its very light especialy since they always take the battery out, the footprint is not too bad but the screen edges are quiet large.
On the plus side it seemded pretty quite although bit noisy in the shop but was noticably better than a z13 on which you coudl hear the fan close up even though it was doing nothing.
Once agin for all those good points sony could still pick up some pointers from apple, they provide a pretty poor shopping experience, like most pc stores staffed by a load of guys in suits looking like mobile phone salesmen desperate to sell you anything, i,e the old s model coming with the latest intel processors.

[Vaio Z Power]

Someone can try NFS Shift 2 on SB with 6630?

[avoid]

Did any of you that own a VPCSB notice any of these issues?

SB series has terrible design/ build quality issues
this is really bad for SB, u can't use keyboard and touchpad at the same time