Hope that Sony keeps up with the 11,1 inch screen (wonderful!), but that they can manage to fix the “leakage” of light at the bottom of the screen.

Really hope also that Sony designers keep UNCHANGED the now very good right shift key (as opposed to the too small and badly located right shift key of the old TR, an otherwise excellent machine). For us writers a big enough right (and left, for that matter) shift key is of utmost importance! The TX has an excellent right shift key.

The man machine interface is of main importance, and the screen and keyboard are the main components in this regard. Perhaps the future TX keyboard could be better by enhancing the key’s travel (how long you have to push it down). 1,7 mm is OK, but a bit more could make it better.

Also, the color of the keys (keyboard) is of importance - and is of cours in addition a matter of taste and preferrance. Personally, I would like a Mac-like keyboard with regard to the color: A whiteish, pearl colored keyboard looks very bright and attractive to me (like the color of the old TR keyboard). The now silver keys on the TX is OK, but I would prefer a more white one, and with good contrast to the letters and numbers and signs that are on the keys. We really like to see well what we write! The orange Fn-keys on the TX is not easy to see.

Further, I would like that the TX in the future keep the same form factor (size and weight (or lighter!) That the fan noise will be history is a stroke of genious!!! One must only see to that the heat will not be a problem, but I have faith in the Sony engineers to take good care of that issue.

A further wish is to include a track point (as IBM has) in addition to the touchpad.

And if possible, make the arrow keys available without using the Fn, but this must be done without making dramatical changes with the keyboard, such as making some keys smaller (even a bit smaller would be bad!) and without making the right shift key smaller or more hidden og badly located, as was the case with the TR.

To end, I would also suggest to move the ports for the headset and mic to the right side (from the front).

Morten

A backlighted keyboard perhaps? Also, I want the dvd burner to also be able to burn dual layer - discs instead of only + ones.
Also, why put two eject buttons for the optical drive when the one on the drive itself is so small?
I’d also like to see a swappable bay drive like on the Fujitsu Lifebook P series, it would be nice to put an extra battery in there if you’re not using the optical drive for very, very long battery life.

More rounded corners might be nice from a styling point of view.  It would also be nice if the underside looked better, more flush, instead of a cheap plastic looking patchwork of vents and removable plates.

built in gprs/edge/umts card just like new pc card from sony ericsson but in built! i got rid of my t350 because when utms rolled out here in europe, i had no use for a gprs/edge card. i ended up using bluetooth/modem in my nokia 6680. anything wireless wan card built into a laptop that is not umts capable is a step down imho in europe at least.

Nah they should pimp it out and make it same size and stuff but make see thru cyrstal thing and u can pick what color u want for color for lighting and do same thing for keys may be cool

In addition to be fanless and at last noiseless, the TX series already now with TX2 will sport a HDD of 80 GB. On the wishlist for future TXs I would add continuation along these lines and what about dual core? How long time in the future are we then talking of? And what about the need for cooling of a machine with dual core - can it manage without a cooling fan?

I generally think that we will see a lot of improvements already in the next year?

Morten

Why on Earth can’t they put a modular bay like on the Lifebook P series? Some people would love to put an additional modular bay battery in there while there not using the optical drive. I guess the expensive extended battery solves that but some don’t like how it bulges out. Well, you could also put in a weightsaver to make the TX even lighter.

[quote author=“Anonymous”]Just take out the optical driver and put a 2.5” hard drive instead of crappy 1.8” drives ...
Then this device will really be good choice to buy….

No because u want an all in one laptop and it would have less battery life. 1.8 is good enough 80G is out now anyway hard to find a buy though but its out there.

what i don;t get is that i see outthere 5-6 models of “big laptops” but only 1 the size of TX series.

i wished there were another 2-3 options fm sony to consider.
also i wished that sony did not change models so often but wen a serious upgrade is available like a processor or screen.

Ya good idea george ur so right maybe if they had differnt models with looks people would skrew over toshibia etc for sony

In a future TX model it would have been fine to be able to swap between dvd drive, extra battery—- or nothing at all, to make the machine even lighter. For me is the TX form factor and style the best and most elegant on the market.

The keyboard could perhaps be better, with more travel. The man-machine interface (vision (both with regard to the screen (naturally) but also with regard to the keyboard and machine as a whole) and tactility with regard to the fingers on the keyboard) should be of the utmost importance in the further development of the TX.

I haven’t really understood what problem it is claimed to be about the redness. To my eyesight, in my view - so to speak, I can se the red color as a regular red color that I see on every other screen. So others say. Is this some pure techolological issue - or what? Fine if an engineer can explain.

BTW, I really disagree that the TX is nothing special. I think of the bigger screen, given the size of the machine, its brilliant style, really light weight, size, and more.

Gilberto, do you know if this redness problem has been fixed in the TX2s??

I’m dissapointed that they quickly phased out the fan in the TXs, because I’ve heard several complains about it having a noisy fan that spewed out lots of heat, sucks for those that spent like $3000 on a TX690P/B a week before.  :evil:

I haven’t even been able to try one yet, as of two weeks ago, my local CompUSA still had a T350P/L on display, I hope they’ve put up a TX by now. Even though I haven’t even tried a TX, I like the Ts better. The keyboard on the Ts were extremely nice for an ultraportable, the ones on the TXs look spongy and I hate their ugly grey color and that some of the keys are labeled in orange, making it very hard to see. I like the wider screen but not its thinness, looks extremely fragile to me and I’ve heard of other owners complain of this as well. The new LED technology sounds nice, but if its not going to show reds correctly and have bad light leakage at the bottom then forget it.

Its also stupid how Sony put a port cover over one USB port and the modem port but not the other USB port and ethernet port. Why should the modem port be covered but not the ethernet one?

Well, I wouldn’t totally bash Gilberto. I didn’t exact run all sorts of tests on the display, I just gave it a quick look. I was actually looking more at the other things on the notebook like its keyboard and build quality rather than the screen. Really like the wider screen, even if it is only 80 pixels wider, they made a difference to me.

why dont u elaborate a little bit on this…