Posts by irock

Quote: Originally Posted by gollum I have had very good response in far cry and painkiller, no blurs no ghosting....I can not say enough good things about the screen, I will never go without a screen of this quality...

I wonder why Sony S170 (Dothan 1.8Ghz, 512MB, Radeon 9700 64MB) scores a 3Dmark03 lower score than a Peter's laptop (Banias 1.6Ghz, Radeon 9700 128MB). You got 3200, right? The S170 just reached 2800. Hmm... Did Sony S170...

gollum, Okay, here's a more serious question. Does S170's screen have quick response time for fast action games?

gollum, I cannot wait... brace for impact people... I'm going to activate my new time machine... going forward 2 days...

Doom 3 is out... please someone with the Sony S170 get this game and report back his fps/experience/whatnot.

Well, optical drives draw way too much power for a low-powered FireWire port, let alone a USB 2.0 port. BUT if you laptop has a PS/2 port, you can use it for feeding power to the drive given it supports this power stealing...

Quote: Originally Posted by real_mav One week evaluation: The Vaio S Series runs very smoothly (no crashes yet) Gaming is acceptable. I run War3 on medium settings. Battery Life: about 3.5 hours (regular web...

Angrytimmy, After some self-educating at Hothardware, anandtech and other websites, I very doubt the Radeon 9800 will even make it to S170 in this configuration due to heat and power requirement of the video chipset. This 9800 is...

gollum, Do you know if Sony S170 Radeon 9700 64MB has a 128-bit memory bus or something less?

gollum, Did you set it to custom 1280x800 or just 1024x768? And have you set it to high? BTW, is high setting only for X800 Pro GPU? Is the non-standard resolution of the LCD cause 'weirdness' in the graphics scale? I still...