I might get ahold of a 9700 sooner or later. I have 3 sales of S series in the last month…
With my experience with sony, at some point the heat dispossition will fuck up the mobo and will fuck up the sensors and the laptops will start shutting themselves and I will need to perform an repair ... Will cut someone a deal to give him my 9200 and get 9700… I suspect the S will be the laptop that will stick with me for a long time ... too cheap and too good to sell…
KIDS, I AM NOT SAYING THAT SONY IS SHIT, ALTHOUGH everybody who services sony knows, that they haven’t worked on the sensors, the heat pipes and the cooling very much since 99… In the T and TR’s the sensor that shuts off the pc if it gets overheated is disabled ... have no idea why but the S, the GRV, the GRT, the A, the K series ... are all doomed to die some day…
The sensor is a logic, that calculates the RPM of the fan and the TEMPERATURE, if the coefficient doesnt fall into the curve ... it shutdown the system…
For example, I had a GRV680P like 2 years ago… The fan got durty, and wouldn’t go over 1700RPM, after like 15 mins of work, the computer would just cold shutdown in front of me ... I did like 10 repairs on similar laptops around Q1 2004.