Hey Gang,

I’m selling this notebook for one of my friends from Japan so it’s a Japanese domestic model.

You can find the ebay auction here . I think I can convince my friend to go lower on price if I sell to someone here on the forums. It’s still way less than if you were buying this new with memory and extra battery.

The system is loaded with 1.5GB of RAM and has two batteries. I know it has the Celeron M which isn’t that bad for most things. For whatever reason, the Celeron M is really popular in Japan. Go figure. Everything about it is pretty nice though and its barely been used.

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gr00vy0ne do you happen to know which vaio wallpaper is that?

Anyone?

Thanks,
J

[quote author=“jonathonla”]gr00vy0ne do you happen to know which vaio wallpaper is that?

Anyone?

Thanks,
J

Nope, but if you want, I can copy it off the system and post it here.  :wink:

[quote author=“gr00vy0ne”][quote author=“jonathonla”]gr00vy0ne do you happen to know which vaio wallpaper is that?

Anyone?

Thanks,
J

Nope, but if you want, I can copy it off the system and post it here.  :wink:

Please do..  :D

yes please….

Anyone know why the Celeron M config isn’t available outside of Japan or at least in North America? Some wouldn’t mind buying a TX with that processor if it would drop down the price a bit. 
Flexibility and choice is always nice.

[quote author=“rahulnirmal2000”]Anyone know why the Celeron M config isn’t available outside of Japan or at least in North America? Some wouldn’t mind buying a TX with that processor if it would drop down the price a bit. 
Flexibility and choice is always nice.

I suspect it’s purely marketing. In the US, the Celeron gets a bad rap (which it deserves) for being the value processor with inferior connotations. In the past, that was certainly the case when Celeron M’s had half the cache and no power management abilities.

The newer Celeron M 383 in this system is a ULV part so it’s a low power part and it has 1MB cache (although some have 512KB) which isn’t that bad.

So, in Japan, the Celeron brand isn’t seen as an inferior product and customers are more willing to buy them. Lots of desktop systems and notebooks have them. I suspect it also helps them keep the prices a little bit lower. I do see a trend where Japan is moving away from Celeron especially with Intel’s onslaught of Core and Core 2 processors. Core is the new Celeron.

I noticed the auction got relisted, why is that?

[quote author=“rahulnirmal2000”]I noticed the auction got relisted, why is that?

Because Nigerian scam artists try to ruin legitimate auctions.

Here’s the wallpaper you’ll were looking for….I found it on Mr. B’s page:

For other versions of the same wallpaper, goto http://mrbsdomain.com/vaio_wallpapers.php and do a search for “slit on snaps” on the page.