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 Posted: Mon, 26th May 2014 05:48 Post subject: Got myself an ultrabook! |
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Ive had my 15" Dell Vostro 1510 since 2008 and it has served me well. It still runs perfectly after all these years. But I wanted a more portable laptop that I could take to work. Carrying the dell around wasn't going to cut it. Ive been checking out and playing around with ultrabooks in electronic shops for the past few weeks and finally decided to just get one! 
I fell in love with the 13" Sony Vaio Pro 13:
Its lighter than an 11" Macbook Air. Also the screen is touchscreen. Although I dont find myself using the touch features often since I dont like to get my screen dirty. I suppose I could always just soap+water it away 
Also it uses PCIe based SSD which gives higher AS SSD benchmark results than the Corsair Neutron GTX I have in my PC which I was pleasantly surprised by. Heres the ultrabook result:
Overall I love this thing!! If anybody here is thinking of getting an ultrabook, I highly recommend checking out the Sony Vaio Pro 13!
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| Posted: Mon, 26th May 2014 08:26 Post subject: |
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Didn't Sony cancel all their notebook involvement 
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| Posted: Mon, 26th May 2014 09:30 Post subject: |
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Looks cool 
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| Posted: Mon, 26th May 2014 14:24 Post subject: |
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| PumpAction wrote: | | Didn't Sony cancel all their notebook involvement |
Whats the story behind this? Ive seen quite a few people with sony ultrabooks
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| Posted: Mon, 26th May 2014 14:35 Post subject: |
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Apparently they didn't do very well on the notebook market and their notebooks generally get way too hot and now there are some question marks regarding support for people that bought Sony notebooks 
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| Posted: Mon, 26th May 2014 14:43 Post subject: |
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The problem now with these laptops is Windows and its retarded DPI scaling. 1080p on 13" or even worse, 11" screens is very very small.
Well, it's not fair to blame it on Windows entirely, it's developers as well that have never took advantage of newer APIs. The big problem is Microsoft not pushing new API aggressively. "Oh no, corporate America can't be bothered to update their shit software, let's leave IE6 in there for 11 fucking years and not deprecate any GDI bullshit that we've left there for 1238947189734 years!" Anything above the normal 100% setting (96 DPI) makes every second application look distorted at best and completely broken at worst. Metro shit scales better, but who cares about that.
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| Posted: Mon, 26th May 2014 15:00 Post subject: |
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The hassle in the industry right now, because Microsoft is dropping support for IE8... it's mind boggling  
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| Posted: Mon, 26th May 2014 17:33 Post subject: |
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| timechange01 wrote: | | PumpAction wrote: | | Didn't Sony cancel all their notebook involvement |
Whats the story behind this? Ive seen quite a few people with sony ultrabooks |
sony is slowly bankrupting itself thanks to the movie and TV devision
http://www.icn.com/en/globalhighlights/2014/02/06/Sony-abandons-its-PC-business/index.aspx
| Quote: | Sony unveiled major restructuring measures this week in an attempt to turn around its troubled consumer electronics business in the face of intense competition from American, South Korean and Chinese rivals, and plans to cut 3% of its global workforce.
And for this to happen, Sony decided to sell its loss-making Vaio PC unit and focuses more on tablets and smartphones, while the TV division will be split into a separate unit by July 2014 as it warned of steep losses this year in this unit.
The restructuring will cut 5,000 jobs, in both TV and PC divisions, and trim 100 billion yen ($988 million) a year from fixed costs in the longer term. The job cuts will be implemented by March 2015 and the cost savings will kick in by the 2015-2016 financial year.
Sony said it now forecasts a net loss of 110 billion yen ($1.1 billion) in the fiscal year ending in March. It previously expected a net profit of 30 billion yen. Meanwhile, the TV manufacturing business has lost $7.5 billion over the last 10 years.
Sony founded the Vaio PC business 17 years ago, and exiting it will mark the first time Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai pulls a major consumer product line. According to Sony the private equity group Japan Industrial Partners is the one buying the PC unit.
Moody`s has decided in January that Sony is no longer worthy of an investment-grade credit rating, downgrading the company to junk and warned that profitability would likely remain “weak and volatile”; Fitch made the same move in late 2012.
This follows Sony`s disposal of assets such as its New York headquarters and a major building in Tokyo last year. Investors cheered the company’s new willingness to undertake these dramatic changes as Sony’s shares kept rising since the announcement.
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and they closed it because they lost so much ... on this its ouch
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303603904579494772786758600
| Quote: | TOKYO— Sony Corp. 6758.TO +3.13% said Friday there was a risk that batteries made by Panasonic Corp. 6752.TO +0.28% in nearly 26,000 of Sony's newest Vaio personal computers could overheat and catch fire, the latest product glitch for the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant.
As a result, Sony is asking customers to stop using its Vaio Fit 11A laptop as soon as possible.
Sony said it had received three reports of batteries overheating causing partial burns to Vaio computers. The first incident was in Japan on March 19, followed by similar incidents on March 30 in Hong Kong and April 8 in China. The company stopped selling the product at the beginning of this month.
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The model is the final version of the Vaio series. Sony unveiled plans in February to sell its personal computer business as part of a strategy to deal with its two most troubled electronics units, televisions and personal computers. The company will also split off its money-losing TV division into a separate subsidiary.
In announcing the sale of its personal computer business to turnaround fund Japan Industrial Partners Inc. in February, Sony Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai called the decision "agonizing."
Sony said in a statement Friday it was identifying the affected computers by serial number and developing a program to repair or replace them. It said the company would provide details on its home page within two weeks.
The company said it had sold a total of 25,905 units of the Vaio Fit 11A world-wide since it first went on sale in February. Of these, nearly 7,000 were sold in Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan and China. About 3,600 were sold in Japan, 2,000 in China, 7,000 in Europe, 5,600 in Latin America, and 500 in the U.S.
A Panasonic spokeswoman confirmed the company had provided the batteries to Sony under an outsourcing contract. She declined to say which other computer makers had received Panasonic batteries, as such information is confidential.
However, she said the batteries are customized according to clients' requirements and differ depending on client. She said Panasonic hadn't heard of any problems with batteries supplied to other clients.
In 2010, Sony said it was recalling about 535,000 Vaio laptops world-wide due to a temperature-control defect that may cause excessive heat and distort the shape of the laptop. |
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| Posted: Mon, 26th May 2014 17:34 Post subject: |
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so remove the BATTERY ASAP !!!! and find a replacement
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| Posted: Mon, 26th May 2014 19:38 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 26th May 2014 19:42 Post subject: |
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| PumpAction wrote: | | The hassle in the industry right now, because Microsoft is dropping support for IE8... it's mind boggling |
Hmm? IE7 support will end in 2017 for Vista. IE8 has life until Windows 7 end of support, which is a long long time. |
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| Posted: Mon, 26th May 2014 22:52 Post subject: |
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| timechange01 wrote: | | PumpAction wrote: | | Didn't Sony cancel all their notebook involvement |
Whats the story behind this? Ive seen quite a few people with sony ultrabooks |
Watch out for the explosion-y battery bits 
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| Posted: Tue, 27th May 2014 01:29 Post subject: |
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Congrats Sam^^
As always, the advice is, keep it away from soap and water 
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| Posted: Tue, 27th May 2014 03:37 Post subject: |
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and replace the battery ASAP
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| Posted: Tue, 27th May 2014 04:03 Post subject: |
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I'm pretty sure the battery is not replaceable (or at least really hard to, probably glued)...
Still seems like a nice laptop, I read about some body flex issues though (the carbon fiber being too flexy?)...
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| Posted: Tue, 27th May 2014 06:03 Post subject: |
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Well I do have a 'no question 30 day return' policy as well as a 1 year manufacturer warranty. I purchased it from the Sony store. Ive only had this ultrabook for about a week and half. So far I haven't had any battery or heating issues. Why I keep hearing replace the battery asap? My battery currently hold charge for quite a long time
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