will sony every offer upgrades to the hard drive or cdr/dvd drives? ive read that you cant upgrade the hard drive or optical drive…why not?

It’s highly unlikely. Most notebook manufacturers do not offer any sort of upgrades for notebooks other than memory. It’s just the nature of notebooks..especially subnotebooks where everything is designed to be as it is. Also, most of the components aren’t readily accessible so it doesn’t make sense to offer upgrades.

Both the HD and optical disk drive in the TR are fixed. You could change them out but it takes a fair amount of work to do it and you would need to find the right parts. As of right now, there are no larger 1.8” hard disks being made than the current 40GB drive so there’s not much to upgrade to anyways.

Do you think it would be easy to swap out the fixed optical drive of the TR2 with the DVD burner drive that will be coming out for the TR3 in Japan?

[quote author=“All4Sky”]Do you think it would be easy to swap out the fixed optical drive of the TR2 with the DVD burner drive that will be coming out for the TR3 in Japan?

I think it’s possible but I wouldn’t go as far as saying it’s an easy thing to do. Of course, getting the part is probably a lot harder than actually installing it. You could conceivably go looking for the drive once we figure out which maker and model it is but then you’ll be saddled with the problem of figuring out how to change the bezel to the custom one that Sony uses.

well if you try to replace the drive with the dvd writer that sony uses in the tr3 series, wont the bezel be the same? im confused….sorry

[quote author=“one028”]well if you try to replace the drive with the dvd writer that sony uses in the tr3 series, wont the bezel be the same? im confused….sorry

Not necessarily. Sony doesn’t make the drives. They typically use Matsushita (Panasonic) drives for notebook devices. Matsushita makes a basic drive mechanism and then different manufacturers put their own bezels on the drives. Matsushita even sells the drives as OEM products with plain bezels.

So, buying the drive with a Sony bezel is nearly impossible as Sony won’t be selling it. You might be able to find the same drive with the generic bezel but then you’d have to figure out a way to get the Sony bezel off your original drive and stick it on the newer drive.

I’m surprised that Sony doesn’t make the drives themselves when they’re one of the leaders in the DVD+RW/-RW market. I don’t care too much for the built-in laptop ones since they’re only DVD-R/RW and that’s only 2x/1x. Burning full DVDs at 1x and even 2x is pretty painful. I want to see who is the first to release a dual format 4x/2x DVD burner in a notebook.