Full Vaio Z2 Review and Useful Guides/Resources

[fbcyborg]

Thanks for the answer.
And what about the ABR Beta With Windows 7 Support? I really am not able to download it! I found this one instead.

EDIT: just another question. Most of the drivers on the Sony Site require to be installed with the PMD connected. I don't have the PMD. What to do?

[Marty_NL]

Thanks for the answer.
And what about the ABR Beta With Windows 7 Support? I really am not able to download it! I found this one instead.

EDIT: just another question. Most of the drivers on the Sony Site require to be installed with the PMD connected. I don't have the PMD. What to do?

I've never tried the ABR software. (I used another method I can't discuss here)

I don't have a PMD either, and I could install all drivers without problems. As for the graphics, I just installed the Intel graphics driver from the Intel website.

[laidback]

Great in-depth review.

However, the keyboard is a deal breaker for me. I just cant type at full speed with so little feedback from the keys.

[fbcyborg]

I agree with you laidback, but I think it's just a training issue!
Changing keyboard could make this happen at the beginning.

[phoebusvh]

The keyboard is perfectly fine. Unless you guys are those with gigantic hands and type like something is pissing you off then I can why the keyboard is a deal breaker here. The trackpad sucks balllllllllllsssss IMO

[cherrybombaz]

Great in-depth review.

However, the keyboard is a deal breaker for me. I just cant type at full speed with so little feedback from the keys.

Hmm. Well after you get used to it, you can type normally. The keys are really springy (even with little travel), so for me, I can easily type at full speed.

[laidback]

@cherry

you dont happen to be Weng from wengstechtoys?

[cherrybombaz]

^

Nope.

[naujoks]

I love the keyboard. Less travel = faster speeds. Click click click. Watch me go!
As for trackpad, installing the twofingerscoll programme made a huuuuuge difference. It's now almost as nice as a mac, just no inertia.

[fbcyborg]

Hello,

since I'm having some problem booting an Operating System which resides on an external USB drive, could somebody help me to check this please?

USB drives appear as SCSI but its up to your BIOS if USB devices are detected before on board SATA and BIOSs do vary.
Grub doesn't detect drives for itself, it just asks the BIOS. Thats why all drives appear as (hdX) in grub. grub neither knows nor cares how they are connected.

Could it be that there is some setting in the bios that causes my hard disk is detected even if during the boot process it is not seen? I've searched into the bios for such an option, but I am not sure on what to enable/disable.

I know it could be confusing, but I want to investigate on what is the problem.

The problem is that my external USB disk seems to be recognized only after the BIOS starts. Actually it loads the bootloader (GRUB), but then, only the two internal SSD disks are detected.


EDIT: no changes to the BIOS have to be made. I've added the rootdelay=10 to the kernel line in the grub.conf file.