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fire_storm   04-15-2009 at 07:32:39 PM

Hi

I bought a macbook about two weeks ago but had problems with it (screen flicker on windows) i think it was a windows driver issue but i didnt pay that much for a laptop that would have these problems, so I returned it and decided I want to go with a PC
for all those who told me not to get a mac, laugh at me..
so I decided to get a sony vaio which will be out on april 17th, is there anything I should consider before getting this
http://www.sonystyle.ca/commerce/s [...] 299n100490

thanks

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The 3650 is fine for midrange gaming, but not at 1920x1080. It will struggle there. The same goes for other GPU related apps - it's not a workstation card, but it should do okay.

Personally, I think Sony has some of the ruddiest notebooks out there. I'd never buy one - the parts are pretty cheap and the prices pretty high. Sony is attempting to be the Macs of the PCs, I believe, and failing at it.

If your budget allows, you might want to look into a Sager computer.
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Bronze Laptops badge frozenlead   04-15-2009 at 08:31:12 PM

Consider for what? What are you going to do with it? What's your budget look like?

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fire_storm   04-15-2009 at 09:00:11 PM

frozenlead wrote :

Consider for what? What are you going to do with it? What's your budget look like?


I will use it for programming GPUs and a little bit of gaming
the spec seem to be fine i wonder about the brand i know sony is very good but i never used their laptops

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Bronze Laptops badge frozenlead   04-16-2009 at 03:58:14 AM
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The 3650 is fine for midrange gaming, but not at 1920x1080. It will struggle there. The same goes for other GPU related apps - it's not a workstation card, but it should do okay.

Personally, I think Sony has some of the ruddiest notebooks out there. I'd never buy one - the parts are pretty cheap and the prices pretty high. Sony is attempting to be the Macs of the PCs, I believe, and failing at it.

If your budget allows, you might want to look into a Sager computer.

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fire_storm   04-16-2009 at 03:42:19 PM

frozenlead wrote :

The 3650 is fine for midrange gaming, but not at 1920x1080. It will struggle there. The same goes for other GPU related apps - it's not a workstation card, but it should do okay.

Personally, I think Sony has some of the ruddiest notebooks out there. I'd never buy one - the parts are pretty cheap and the prices pretty high. Sony is attempting to be the Macs of the PCs, I believe, and failing at it.

If your budget allows, you might want to look into a Sager computer.



the games i will be playing are old games like CSS and 2d games and as for graphic card programming i remotely connect to high end machines and have them run my code so its no big deal
as for sony hate i did notice many people here do hate sony maybe because of the price, i am switching from apple no matter what i buy i am saving money lol

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