New Laptop...
Ya, but that's also going to be pushing the cards limits. I'm just going by an earlier statement you made once. "I don't play a game unless I can play with all of it's settings maxed." And then you asked about maxing TF2 on a laptop. I'm not sure if you can do that on a sub 1k laptop, is all I'm saying. Again, it's going to be WAY playable. But, you may have to back off from your "I don't play" statement some. I was playing on my laptop with about the same settings as Catt was. And it was alot of fun. For 1k, the laptop will be more than playable and fun for on the road entertainment.
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Toshiba X205 SLI5Cakedaddy wrote:What kind and where from? If you don't mind me asking.
I got it from eBay, but from a friend of mine that sells, not this seller. Was $965 after the live.com cashback.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Ok.... who has owned a Sony Vaio?
How much of this preinstalled Viao crap can I uninstall without screwing up the system? There are about 20 different "Viao-X" apps in my installed program list.
Already uninstalled Windows Live OneCare... boy, Windows hated it when I did that. I see Windows Defender is installed, but that's a good anti malware app, right?
How much of this preinstalled Viao crap can I uninstall without screwing up the system? There are about 20 different "Viao-X" apps in my installed program list.
Already uninstalled Windows Live OneCare... boy, Windows hated it when I did that. I see Windows Defender is installed, but that's a good anti malware app, right?
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
1. Called today... forgot yesterday. Mine changed to only $50 cheaper... $100 cheaper over the holiday weekend when customer service was unavailable...Cakedaddy wrote:Waiting to call them on Monday. Wife's laptop only went down $50. But, I still want the $50. She bought an AW instead of an FW.
18.4" screen
9600M gt video card
7200rpm drive
She wanted a little more gamability.
2. The chick I spoke with was nice. She said they don't ordinarily price match even their own prices, but she would hook me up just this one time. So, $50 back.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
As far as an actual review...
It arrived last night, so I've only had a few hours to play with it, but here are my thoughts:
Obviously it is loaded down with propriatary Sony crap that I have to get rid of... "Sony Vioa Help Center... Sony Vaio Media Center..." lots of stuff that I already have covered with built-in Windows apps, or just don't need at all. So I'll be removing that stuff one bit at a time trying not to break anything.
No recovery disks... you have to make your own... with a pre-installed Sony Viao app. Took 3 DVD's. See why I am hesitant to just start removing things? What if I break some sort of recovery process?
Speakers suck, hard. Just sound tinny.
Screen looks great, with 1600x900 native resolution. No complaints, there.
2.2gHz Dual core cpu. and 4gb memory with 1066hz front side bus... makes up for the slow as hell 5400 RPD hard drive. Once a game is loaded into memory, it runs great. Just is a little painful waiting for that load when one is accustomed to a dual-drive RAID 0 configuration. It played TF2 great, nearly full resolution, with just a barely noticeable graphical stutter when you are in the middle of a bunch of explosions. I saw it exactly 3 times playing last night, over 2 hours. I'll be tweaking graphics down slightly to eliminate that.
I am currently typing on my regular gaming keyboard, with my regular gaming mouse, on my regular 20" LCD monitor. No issues with just plugging things in, it all just worked. I even have one more USB port if I need one. It was nice that the very first time I fired a weapon on this laptop in TF2, it was a perfect headshot. Good omen.
Been plugged in, so I have no opinion about the battery life, yet. I have a 3-hour flight coming up soon; I'll have an opinion, then. Also have been hard wired to my LAN, so no opinion about the wireless functionality. Ditto for the built-in bluetooth. I don't even know what to do with that, yet. There's an SD card reader, and some sort of other slot that I don't even know what goes into it yet. I think it says "MagicGate" right next to it.
Ummmmmmmmm.................beyond the speakers sucking, it isn't too bad. I played TF2 with headphones last night, and besides the fact the headphones hurt my ears after 20 minutes, that sounded adequate.
That's it for now.
It arrived last night, so I've only had a few hours to play with it, but here are my thoughts:
Obviously it is loaded down with propriatary Sony crap that I have to get rid of... "Sony Vioa Help Center... Sony Vaio Media Center..." lots of stuff that I already have covered with built-in Windows apps, or just don't need at all. So I'll be removing that stuff one bit at a time trying not to break anything.
No recovery disks... you have to make your own... with a pre-installed Sony Viao app. Took 3 DVD's. See why I am hesitant to just start removing things? What if I break some sort of recovery process?
Speakers suck, hard. Just sound tinny.
Screen looks great, with 1600x900 native resolution. No complaints, there.
2.2gHz Dual core cpu. and 4gb memory with 1066hz front side bus... makes up for the slow as hell 5400 RPD hard drive. Once a game is loaded into memory, it runs great. Just is a little painful waiting for that load when one is accustomed to a dual-drive RAID 0 configuration. It played TF2 great, nearly full resolution, with just a barely noticeable graphical stutter when you are in the middle of a bunch of explosions. I saw it exactly 3 times playing last night, over 2 hours. I'll be tweaking graphics down slightly to eliminate that.
I am currently typing on my regular gaming keyboard, with my regular gaming mouse, on my regular 20" LCD monitor. No issues with just plugging things in, it all just worked. I even have one more USB port if I need one. It was nice that the very first time I fired a weapon on this laptop in TF2, it was a perfect headshot. Good omen.
Been plugged in, so I have no opinion about the battery life, yet. I have a 3-hour flight coming up soon; I'll have an opinion, then. Also have been hard wired to my LAN, so no opinion about the wireless functionality. Ditto for the built-in bluetooth. I don't even know what to do with that, yet. There's an SD card reader, and some sort of other slot that I don't even know what goes into it yet. I think it says "MagicGate" right next to it.
Ummmmmmmmm.................beyond the speakers sucking, it isn't too bad. I played TF2 with headphones last night, and besides the fact the headphones hurt my ears after 20 minutes, that sounded adequate.
That's it for now.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
TheCatt wrote:OK, so what are it's windows experience #s?
Good question.
5.1 Determined by lowest subscore
Processor Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz 5.2
Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 5.9
Graphics ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 5.9
Gaming graphics 2287 MB Total available graphics memory 5.1
Primary hard disk 169GB Free (223GB Total) 5.3
Windows Vista ™ Home Premium
System
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Manufacturer Sony Corporation
Model VGN-FW290E
Total amount of system memory 4.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2
Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 223 GB
Disk partition (C:) 169 GB Free (223 GB Total)
Media drive (H:) CD/DVD
Graphics
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Display adapter type ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Total available graphics memory 2287 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 512 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 1775 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.513.1.0
Primary monitor resolution 1600x1200
DirectX version DirectX 10
Network
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Network Adapter Marvell Yukon 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Network Adapter Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 5100
Network Adapter Microsoft Tun Miniport Adapter
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."