sony vaio
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- desmo
thoughts on vaio's for designing purposes...
any good handling photoshop, etc?
or are vaio's all look and no substance...
- sparker0
i don't know about design, but i have a sony vaio s150 which runs gentoo linux and it works like a champ.
fast, light and very portable. plus, you can't beat sony's xbrite screens.
it's a pentium m, 1.6ghz with 512mb ram and a 60gb drive.
i'm getting read to double the ram to a gig, and put a 100gb notebook harddrive in it.
i'm happy with the purchase. my notebook choice was down to 4, the vaio, a powerbook, a hp and an alienware sentia...
all were about the same in price, but, the screen was a bit selling point...i love xbrite.
the new, updated models are available now...but they are basically the same box.
- desmo0
i am debating whether to get the VAIO® FS Series notebook.
i would definetly upgrade to 1GB ram. thats a must.
- liquid0
got about a 2 year old vaio...2ghz p4 1.25gb ram.... 64mb vid card and I have yet to reblast it....still original install....
I love sony...just wish they werent so expensive...
- desmo0
i think vaio's look just as good as the powerbooks.
its just the preformance that worries me.
- sparker0
well, like i said, mine runs fine. performance benchmarks are quite comparable between macs and pcs.
it will run adobe and macromedia products fine, i'm sure.
what ever performance differences there are, it is unlikely they will be noticed.
- desmo0
sparker...
what kind of work do you do?
- sparker0
now? i'm cheif network/systems administrator for a medium-sized radio station market.
2 cities, 8 stations, ~100 users.
although, i studied architectural design in college.
long story. i'm too much of a geek/engineer at heart to design.
i've also spent years in the trenches of programming.
:)
- fate_redux0
I've got a relatively older Vaio laptop, about 2 years old when Sony was still making work-horse models.
2.5ghz, 1gb Ram. It's a champ, really solid performance especially with PS and AE.
- fate_redux0
Oh and it's got a lid on it that has been polished to a mirror...it's a beaut'.
- desmo0
sweet.
im hoping that the intel pentium M centrino 1.6 GHz processor with 1 GB of Ram. DVD writer and CD writer combo drive, 80 G HD. will be enough for all my freelance design work.
i hate it when PS starts to chugg.
- fate_redux0
The Centrinos are really good chips. The numbers lie a bit because they really give a great level of performance, granted you max out the RAM.
- sparker0
what i like about centrino is freq scaling in the processor.
i enabled it in my linux kernel (v. 2.6.10) and, whilst on battery my processor degrades in speed to boost battery life.
this works out nicely when i'm sitting in a coffee shop just checking email and working remotely in ssh on a server back at the office.
i can usually get about 3.5 hours out of my vaio...but, then again, i also made some changes which limit read/write to the harddrive to conserve power.
design apps will eat a notebook battery a live.
adobe cs will run sluggish after a while no matter what. our graphic designer here has a beast of a workstation and he still has to reboot once or so a day because cs starts slowing down.
i think there are memory/swap issues with adobe's software.
- Tyrone0
I just bought a VAIO last week. I got an FS550. I'm a die hard Mac user but needed a new PC for some testing and to use with my GPS. It's pretty dope. Thin, light. Seems pretty fast but I haven't done much with it really. Not having much luck with getting the wireless work but that probably because I'm PC ignorant.
- desmo0
yes,
it is the sony vaio FS550 model that i am looking to buy.
that thing is sexy.