Dear all,

This is my first post here so… Happy New Year to you all.

Im from Portugal, and in stores i saw, Vaio S1XP and it looked just what i wanted… but the price here is € 2.500, about USD $3.300.

So can anyone tell me another country, Usa, Taiwan, Germany or other with a much lower price for this model?

Another concern is that i’ve searched on google for T1XP and sometimes i found T150… are they the same? Is T1XP for european customers and T150 for US market? Can anyone explain me?

Another concern on buying in another country is that i need a Portuguese Keyboard… do Sony or other reseler sell it? What about warranty? Its international?

Please help me get one of those…. lol

Hope to ear from you soon.

Best Regards.
Juanito - Portugal !

[quote author=“Juanito”]Dear all,

This is my first post here so… Happy New Year to you all.

Happy new year, too!

Im from Portugal, and in stores i saw, Vaio S1XP and it looked just what i wanted… but the price here is € 2.500, about USD $3.300.

So can anyone tell me another country, Usa, Taiwan, Germany or other with a much lower price for this model?

Not much difference here in Germany. The lowest price I can lookup (already below MSRP) is 2200€.

Another concern is that i’ve searched on google for T1XP and sometimes i found T150… are they the same? Is T1XP for european customers and T150 for US market? Can anyone explain me?

Yes, America and Europe have different model numbers for VAIOs. The series are the same (i.e. you have the S, T, TR, X series etc.) but the submodels are different and have different names.

Don’t worry, however: it seems that, for whatever reason, european and japanese markets always get the more feature packed models, sometimes or often even for a lower price.

Why Sony chose to have that policy is beyond me, I think american Sony customers have the right to get all features as well. But, of course, it’s not your problem

Another concern on buying in another country is that i need a Portuguese Keyboard… do Sony or other reseler sell it? What about warranty? Its international?

You can order another keyboard as a service part. Be sure to check the price first, however - I believe it can be quite expensive.

As for the warranty, I’m sorry, I don’t know.

Please help me get one of those…. lol

Of course. You’ll like it.

Hope to ear from you soon.

Unfortunately, I still have use for my ear myself, but I hope I could help you anyway.

Regards,
Julien
Munich, Germany

The T1XP is probably equivalent to the T170. The UK market must be smaller than US / Japan as we only have the one version of the T Series (T1XP). The US has T140, T150, T160 & T170. The T1XP is equivalent to the T150 although if you insert the optional 512Mb RAM module then it would be is equivalent to the T170.

Japan on the other hand now have the T91 on offer which is the T170 but with a new carbon fibre case, 1.2Ghz processor and a 60gb HD. I wonder if the UK will ever get this :(

I think the best option is to buy the T170 or T160 in the US for about USD$2.000 -> USD$2.400 and order here in Portugal the T1XP keyboard that is the same of the models above for what i see, instead of paying USD$3.400 for the T1XP here in Portugal.

Does anyone knows the PartNumber of the Portuguese Keyboard for the T1XP or for the T170/T160.

I would love to have a Vaio like this, can you guys help me find the place where is cheaper and help me find the Portuguese Keyboard?

Thank you all for you help !