“The good: Sleek and minimal design; dual-layer writing.
The bad: Poor battery life; ho-hum performance.
The bottom line: The Sony VAIO FS is made for socialites who want to showcase their svelte notebook, else other less expensive alternatives should be considered”
“The good: Sleek and minimal design; dual-layer writing.
The bad: Poor battery life; ho-hum performance.
The bottom line: The Sony VAIO FS is made for socialites who want to showcase their svelte notebook, else other less expensive alternatives should be considered”
Isn’t that a review of the FS and not the S series?
Honestly I try the FS Series, and I agree with the review. This laptop is much cheap products. The fabric and even the whole laptop design is not really good quality. But in fact the price is low for a sony products.
After trying and returning the FS I took the S Series which is much better than the FS. There is no possible comparison.
Hey, sorry I ma an idiot. They are different. Sometimes I get confused by the different numbers sony insists on putting on their computers depending on which country they sell in.
Yeah, the S is a vastly different machine than the FS. The FS which did win best of CES is marketed as a value system. It has nice specs on paper and they tried to borrow some of the technology from the better models but it’s made to be a mass consumer item. As a result it seems they cut corners to get the price down. I also suspect that Sony has very conservative settings for the system performance. I wonder if they were smart enough to try the different power modes. For instance, on my S, the performance options very set to very conservative by default. Manually changing it introduced far better results. Even the video chipset seemed underclocked as well. They may be doing this to boost battery life but I doubt CNET bothered to check these things out. I find their reviewers often don’t do in depth research or understand the products they’re testing.
The S is marketed as more of a professional system and essentially the most powerful system that could act as a desktop replacement. And, it’s only 4.2lbs.
Well for instance, when I received my S170P, the performance settings were set as 1 (quiet) when plugged in and 1 (quiet) unplugged. Obviously, changing the plugged-in setting to 5 (performance) made a huge difference in performance. Of course, you can create your own profiles and stuff but you should at least make sure you have the best settings before benchmarking a system. You may also want to make sure that any video settings are fully operational.
Us S170P owners (or any ATI Radeon 9200/9700 models) can easily change power saving mode on and off. I’m not sure if the new S models (and FS models) using the GeForce 6200 chipset have it as easy. Also, it’s a known fact that the 6200 chipset is underclocked on Sony models and can easily be bumped up (at the expense of battery).
No wonder I was unable to find that screen. I did a clean install on a new 7200 rpm hd. I never was able to find the vaio power management software to put back on.
The two programs that were not available on sony’s support site were:
