Was out at lunch on a remote job and popped in to a sony shop.. What did i have to find but a s1XP waiting for me..

Been very pleased so far and only thing i need to look for is some extra ram as 512 don’t cut it with some of my photoshop bits.

Will keep the TR as it fits some of my requirements but the s will give me an all round machine.

Had a quick chance to install doom 3 on it today and seem to play ok with default setting, but i do seem to get it lock up in the game at times but not had a good look why yet.

Build quality seems better than the TR and feels a lot more solid. The screen i think also is brighter than my tr but it may just be me as since getting it i have not used tr much

I found that Doom 3 also locks up a bit on a 512MB Type S. I checked the Task Manager and saw that Doom 3 uses a lot of memory…so much that I was swapping. So, it seems you’ll really want 1GB on your Type S if you want it to run better.

Glad you like your S. I like mine as well and it really does feel quite solid with not a lot of creaking.

Yep was just finding same thing when i was playing on my main pc but its a dark dark game… Wont be playing to much at night by myself lol

Haha…yeah, I was playing it last night and the GF was like…“um, can you turn that down? I’m going to have nightmares.”

She was trying to sleep and I had the volume on low but she said she could hear muffled screams.   But yes, it’s seriously scary and you have to be so careful. Basically, I take cautionary shots into darkness just to make sure stuff doesn’t jump out to grab me (which still happens anyways).

I can’t wait for my 512MB module to arrive from Kingston. I realized I use a lot of memory for my typical apps. The Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2003 (which is awesome) uses a lot of memory as does all of my Adobe software. I’m spoiled by the 1GB of RAM in my TR… :?

Same here ram is a must and been looking today for ram and a faster disk as just got the standard one as no way to config in uk.

I do a lot of photography and shoot raw so have to have some decent spec to convert and then edit the photos. If i want to resize up for printing etc one file can start the machine paging at 512 ram.

I notice at Sony style that there is a lot of upgrades for the type “S” .  Did I ever metion I like that name.

Well here is my straight up concern with DOOM 3 and your guys machines.

Which processor did you choose, and which video card.

I am thinking about getting one.  But, for the decent frame rates and quailty level looks like I would be $4,000 in.  Thats a lot of dough?

How much did you guys spend?  I only paid $2k for my TR.  That would be twice as much.

By the way congrats on your new machines.

I got the 1.7 and 9700 chip. In uk you dont get much choice at moment and this was the first time i have seen the s with the 9700..

I not played doom3 much on it as really do that on my main pc but will do some more testing when i get a chance.

^^^^ Damn, forgot to login, lol :oops:

Good to here you love it… Sadly i got a uk one with recovery disks so no hidden partition to speak of i believe.