New laptop thread

[Spacecadet]

Settled on this

Sony VAIO EC 1 Series 320GB 17.3in Blu-ray Laptop - White

17.3in display.
Resolution 1600 x 900 pixels.

Not even Full HD and its a 17.3in display

[suityou01]

17.3in display.
Resolution 1600 x 900 pixels.

Not even Full HD and its a 17.3in display

It has a blueray player and hdmi out

[Spacecadet]

It has a blueray player and hdmi out

have you tried playing a blueray film on it?

[Clippy]

As a long time user of Sony IT equipment I can tell you that you need to be aware:

• They are always overpriced
• The drivers are often a problem
• Support is so expensive that replacement is cheaper
• Their kit is pretty and robust but is always weak on something, such as disk performance or battery life or the absence of an essential port.
• When you get a good one and learn to live with its foibles, you'll be over the moon with it.
• They always come installed with large amounts of bloatware which reduces the performance to that of a Casio scientific calculator

FTFY.

[suityou01]

have you tried playing a blueray film on it?

No,not yet.

Thhe tactile response of the keyboard is sublime, but the mousepad is all bumpy.

Also when I got into task manager there appear to be 4 cores, but I remember this being advertised as a dual core box. Praps each core is hyperthreaded or summat.

Who the frak cares. It's shiny, big, new, and I popped my VM on it and it didn't even break sweat.

Off to grab a blueray disc now, what am I expecting to see? <A film says suityou02 in my ear as I type this> Har bloody har.
Is it going to be crap quality? Am I going to be blown away with HiDef amazement?

[suityou01]

Just watched the opening bars of Sweeney Todd in HD. Looks like HD to me. But what would I know.

[Moscow Mule]

Should have spent more money on a macbook pro.

[suityou01]

Should have spent more money on a macbook pro.

Not made of money man!

What is so special about a spakbook anyways?

[d000hg]

Not made of money man!

What is so special about a spakbook anyways?

It runs MacOs, is what an iFan will tell you.
Nothing, it's overpriced, a Mac-hater will tell you
Otherwise, it's a nicely styled PC. If you think style and sleekness are worth money, and aren't the sort to upgrade their laptops, it's a fair choice.

Although beware, Apple announced this week they will likely be dropping Java support from the next version of MacOs.