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Sky1981

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15.5 inch VAIO E Series (Black)

VAIO E Series is equipped with a Blu-ray Disc™ ROM drive and a 15.5-inch, 16:9 Real Wide display with Full HD resolution. The ATI Mobility Radeon™ GPU assures high-resolution video gaming. The Glossy transparent finish overlays a square gradation pattern to provide a cool urban look.

* Intel® Core™ i5-460M Processor 2.53 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 2.80 GHz
* Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
* 15.5 inch wide (Full HD: 1920x1080) VAIO Display Plus, LED backlight
* ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5650 Graphics
* Instant web browsing: Quick Web Access button
* Entertainment usability: Blu-ray Disc™ ROM Drive & HDMI Output

4GB SSD3RAM, 1GB Dedicated ATI Radeon, 500GB HD

/wank
 
Seems a bit steep.

What are you paying for, the blu ray and full HD screen? Because I'm pretty sure you can find one with the same specs for much cheaper than that without those.
 
I_live_cement said:
Seems a bit steep.

What are you paying for, the blu ray and full HD screen? Because I'm pretty sure you can find one with the same specs for much cheaper than that without those.
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Right now i'm on acer 4920G which is about that price when I bought it 4 years ago, it's still holding out on its own even today.

I'm paying for the Vaio, the I5, blue rays (cool to have but useless 99/100), the 15.5 inch is good value since i use this for home use and gaming most of the time, the 1Gb dedicated ATI Radeon.

Yes, it's abit steep for the same spec I can get Toshiba or Acer's i7, but it's vaio, been wanting it from way back :D

Besides, it looks worth it for the Blue Ray alone, not many laptop are blue ray capable although in a few years it'll be invalid
 
Fair enough, Vaios are good laptops.

Just think you could get a better deal if you went with Dell or HP, for instance, with the same i5 processor and graphics card.
 
Sony's are great but you will be paying an extra 10% for the brand name. As said above you can get an identical HP or Toshiba for cheaper
 
Sky1981 said:
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15.5 inch VAIO E Series (Black)

VAIO E Series is equipped with a Blu-ray Disc™ ROM drive and a 15.5-inch, 16:9 Real Wide display with Full HD resolution. The ATI Mobility Radeon™ GPU assures high-resolution video gaming. The Glossy transparent finish overlays a square gradation pattern to provide a cool urban look.

* Intel® Core™ i5-460M Processor 2.53 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 2.80 GHz
* Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
* 15.5 inch wide (Full HD: 1920x1080) VAIO Display Plus, LED backlight
* ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5650 Graphics
* Instant web browsing: Quick Web Access button
* Entertainment usability: Blu-ray Disc™ ROM Drive & HDMI Output

4GB SSD3RAM, 1GB Dedicated ATI Radeon, 500GB HD

/wank
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I wouldn't say it's that bad. I don't think it even sounds particularly overpriced.
 
See, for not too much more you can get this:

Custom-made, high performance company Origin...

* Chassis and Primary Display: EON15 platform with 1920 x 1080 15.6" LED Backlit Glossy LCD Screen

* Graphics Card: Single 1.5GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M (1.5GB of Total GFX)

* Processor: Intel Core i7-740QM Quad Core Processor (1.73GHz), 6MB L3 Cache, mPGA-989

* Memory: 8GB Dual-Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 2 X 4GB

* Hard Drive One: 750GB 7200rpm SATA 300 Hard Drive

* Optical Drive: 8X DVD+/-R/RW/4X +DL Super-Multi Drive & Software


This is a low-spec one as well, at just $1,741. Other models include 3D, upto 24GB RAM, 3 seperate harddrives totalling 3TB etc, in a damn laptop!

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Well, that depends entirely on whether he needs it to be portable or not.

You would assume if he wanted a desktop he wouldn't be posting about potential laptops to buy.
 
Gaming laptops don't really make sense and as far as I can figure out, unless I'm doing porn/photoshop/gaming multitasking wrong, there is never any need to have anything like 24gb of ram.
 
No, there isn't whatsoever, but it's an insane option and shows their ambitions.
 
Yep I'd never get a laptop for gaming, I get them for portability + battery life, and if they can run FM it helps.

You could buy a desktop PC with better specs than that laptop for around £400 if you built it yourself.
 
You say you use it mostly for home use and gaming, does it have to be portable? I'm guessing so.

If you do game alot, go in for an Origin, just a normal spec one.
 
Can explain the naming behind the processors? Is the Sandy Bridge a type of i7 or a range or what?
 
cina said:
Yep I'd never get a laptop for gaming, I get them for portability + battery life, and if they can run FM it helps.

You could buy a desktop PC with better specs than that laptop for around £400 if you built it yourself.
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I've built all my PC's for the last 10+ years or so and my current PC is a little out of date now and is a "trigger's broom" as the original build was done about 5 or 6 years ago and since then I have replaced just about everything but the case, DVD rewriter and PSU.

Anyway, I was looking to do a fresh build late last year and came to the conclusion that you are better off just buying a ready built PC these days as the big companies get the components for so much cheaper than we can and there is so much competition.
 
Sky1981 said:
Right now i'm on acer 4920G which is about that price when I bought it 4 years ago, it's still holding out on its own even today.

I'm paying for the Vaio, the I5, blue rays (cool to have but useless 99/100), the 15.5 inch is good value since i use this for home use and gaming most of the time, the 1Gb dedicated ATI Radeon.

Yes, it's abit steep for the same spec I can get Toshiba or Acer's i7, but it's vaio, been wanting it from way back :D

Besides, it looks worth it for the Blue Ray alone, not many laptop are blue ray capable although in a few years it'll be invalid
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In a few years what will be 'invalid'? Blu Ray?
 
Pexbo said:
Anyway, I was looking to do a fresh build late last year and came to the conclusion that you are better off just buying a ready built PC these days as the big companies get the components for so much cheaper than we can and there is so much competition.
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Well that's bollocks Pexbo, quite frankly. it's always been acknowledged that it's cheaper to build your own PC. Companies get them for cheaper sure but then they add their own cost on to them and the building cost. They're also worse in the long run cause a lot of the parts (like in Dells) are customly fitted and can't be replaced by the standard parts.

Hectic said:
Everytime I see the thread title, a part of me dies.
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:lol: Me hate English bad too
 
I used it at home, but i live outside the city where my parents live, so mobility is always a good thing to have.

I know i can get better, but somehow custom are not my cup of tea, at least for laptop, there's no guarantee the dude who puts it in is doing it with care, besides... it's a SONY!

What I mean by Blue Ray going invalid soon is that now it is a luxury to have that in your laptop, but 1 year from now it'll come as standard, just like DVD rom when it first comes out.


FFS, been to 3 location , 30 shops, all sold out... the damn bugger.

Most thing about Laptop is wants, and not needs, nobody needs an i7 or even i5 to be fair, even the most advance gaming on the market does not really need an i7 to run the optimum, but if you're buying something you want, you'll want the whole nine yard :D
 
cina said:
Yep I'd never get a laptop for gaming, I get them for portability + battery life, and if they can run FM it helps.

You could buy a desktop PC with better specs than that laptop for around £400 if you built it yourself.
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Always good to know that whenever you're up for a boring vacation you'll always have your baby to company you, and i spend 80% of my time infront of computer, so it's gonna worth every bits.

battery life is normally 2hours on optimum, don't ever used it while plugged, unless you're charging it, my laptop never had the battery inside when i'm at home, it'll guarantee you a long lasting battery.

FM is quite modest in terms of requirement
 
Sky1981 said:
Always good to know that whenever you're up for a boring vacation you'll always have your baby to company you, and i spend 80% of my time infront of computer, so it's gonna worth every bits.

battery life is normally 2hours on optimum, don't ever used it while plugged, unless you're charging it, my laptop never had the battery inside when i'm at home, it'll guarantee you a long lasting battery.
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Uh thanks for the lesson, but I'm pretty sure I know how batteries work there buddy...

2 hours battery life playing high graphics games? You'd be lucky to get half that.

Sky1981 said:
FM is quite modest in terms of requirement
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Graphically yes, but with stuff maxed out (large DB and lots of leagues), FM can use a shitload of CPU and RAM. It can also pummel battery life on any laptop.
 
Sky1981 said:
I used it at home, but i live outside the city where my parents live, so mobility is always a good thing to have.

I know i can get better, but somehow custom are not my cup of tea, at least for laptop, there's no guarantee the dude who puts it in is doing it with care, besides... it's a SONY!
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Origins are not made by some poor-skilled dude....They are one of the leading companies in high-performance computers. This is the company that evolved from the original Alienware team.
 
They ship your laptop in a 5ft armored crate (optional and costs £20 I think) for fecks sake, that's about as far as you can get for someone doing it with care!
 
Well... there's no origin retailer in my country (indonesia)

And if there's no official store it's going to be very risky, with the custom, after sales stuff, + a massive amount of shipping fee with insurance, not to mention the long waiting time.

At least with Sony i can't go wrong since they have 100s over vendors in Jakarta alone.

I also wanted to look posh and sophisticated when i brignt them to cafe or something, you wouldn't want to get the chick turned off with a cool dude who's probably an executive with an alienware in the middle of a working hour :P
 
It doesn't have the Alienware markings, it's a different company. There's nothing on the external unless you want it to. Or, you can upload your own graphics, whatever you like and they will render the casing in that fashion.

Go with whatever you feel suits you best mate, just wanted to assure you they aren't a low-end company, and any doubts on care and quality should be dismissed straight away. You get what you pay for, and it isn't cheap.

As far as I'm aware you can only order from the website. I am getting one sent to a friend in America, who will bring it over/send as a present.
 
Hectic said:
It doesn't have the Alienware markings, it's a different company. There's nothing on the external unless you want it to. Or, you can upload your own graphics, whatever you like and they will render the casing in that fashion.

Go with whatever you feel suits you best mate, just wanted to assure you they aren't a low-end company, and any doubts on care and quality should be dismissed straight away. You get what you pay for, and it isn't cheap.

As far as I'm aware you can only order from the website. I am getting one sent to a friend in America, who will bring it over/send as a present.
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3rd world country custom full of corruption, trust me, even Ebays don't send or receive our CC
 
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