Was the upgrade worth it... for me, yes. If you're uncomfortable with taking apart your laptop, then for you, maybe not. Yes, there's a risk... but to me, the harddrive was the "weakest link" of all the laptop components. I...
Athough I did make a set of restore disks for the heck of it, I didn't use them... nor would I recommend that you do. The Vaio comes loaded with a slew of crap that you don't want. There's nothing better than clean installing WinXp (w/...
very cool... good to read a followup.
FYI, the only driver I couldn't find on the Sony website is the one for the LCD (color profiles). You can, however, find a harcopy of the files in a folder on the recovery drive... I've already...
sure, no problem...
Thanks to Dark Angel ^^^ I now have a pdf version of the service manual.
The manual is not the one that specifically convers my A150 (there are two manuals, this is the wrong one)... but everything is...
I am convinced that the internal parts should work for the entire A Series line...
Once you open things up, you'll understand why.
The only part that is different for the 17" models is the thin front LED lens cover that carries...
Here's a direct link to the English translation of the German link I posted above with pictures, etc:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...D2259&lp=de_en
EDIT:
Here's the part number for the touchpad...