I know Tr5 can burn dvd but is that all? Im thinking of ordering this next month ( I give myself a month to know the good and the bad of Tr before ordering it. ) But Tr3 has longer battery than Tr5, so I really don’t know. sigh…help!

[quote author=“UHF”]Review of TR5MP

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.aspx?newsID=1935

battery life should be all the same and depends on the use(wifi,bt,etc) plus you can always add the dvd-rw..

earlier Sony used to claim 7 hrs of battery life for the TR…now they’ve made it slightly more realistic of upto 5.5 hrs (and in some of the descriptions they have still left it as 7 hrs) but dont expect more than 4 hrs under normal usage. You could get around 6.5-7 hrs with the extended battery.

thats interesting…if it’s true that the tr5 has less battery life maybe it’s due to another bit of trivia not mentioned: it’s got a more powerful processor, but just a bit. that alone might be worth getting the Tr5, as every little bits got to help the doggie nature of the TR under stress.

It has been mentioned that the increase in clock speed will only give you about a 3% increase in performance.  I would imagine that the extra battery consumption would be even less than that since there is more than just the CPU drawing power from the battery.

Always a new generation of chips, but the article says they’ll still be shipping for a while.

Anyone know off-hand the time frame from TR1 through TR5? Did technology outpace development for a TR4 series?

perhaps the tr5 is just that stellar that a tr4 wouldn’t do it justice ahhaha

According to others 4 is a bad number in Asian cultures and was skipped for that reason.

Erik

They should have done a TR2+2. 

[quote author=“tifosiv122”]According to others 4 is a bad number in Asian cultures and was skipped for that reason.

Erik

they don’t even have a level 4(4th floor) for elevators in most hospitals. 4 = sounds like death in chinse. it would go 1, 2,3,5,6,etc..

[quote author=“tifosiv122”]According to others 4 is a bad number in Asian cultures and was skipped for that reason.

Erik

Ah, like 13 in Western cultures. Nice to reaffirm that all humanity is equally weird.

[quote author=“dbs”][quote author=“tifosiv122”]According to others 4 is a bad number in Asian cultures and was skipped for that reason.

Erik

Ah, like 13 in Western cultures. Nice to reaffirm that all humanity is equally weird.

Amen.

[quote author=“dbs”][quote author=“tifosiv122”]According to others 4 is a bad number in Asian cultures and was skipped for that reason.

Erik

Ah, like 13 in Western cultures. Nice to reaffirm that all humanity is equally weird.

I thought that was 666?!?

Lol.

Erik

666 is just Christian (mark of the beas from Revelation). 13 has been considered unlucky in the West since at least the time of ancient Babylon. 12 is a number of plenty because all its factors added together equals more than the original number. It comes up a lot in the Bible for this reason (12 tribes of Israel, 12 disciples, etc). Add 1 to 12 and you get a prime number, so it’s not divisible neatly into halves, thirds, quarters or what have you, so everyone avoided 13 because it was hard to work with… Except for bakers, but they’ve never been known for their numeric prowess. :mrgreen:

40’s also a number of plenty, which explains the 40 years of wandering, 40 days in the desert and rain for 40 days and nights references in the Bible.

No, I’m not into numerology. My father’s a college mathematics professor. :|

I was kidding about the 666, but thanks for the history/math lesson.

Erik

How do the two sound exactly? Is it just one dialect or is it more?