I have the sony vaio a270 (11 months old; for business apps/working, etc) and the 9300 (this week; for the HTPC).
sony Vaio a series +
IMO, the vaio is a better looking notebook and better ergonomically. The rounded off left and...
fyi... the biggest improvement for me was using the ICC ColorMatch RGB profile suggestion which solves the overblown brightness and turning on cleartype and adjusting it with the clear type tweaker or the web version on microsoft's...
Just got my wuxga 9300 yesterday. It appears to be the samsung from all info garnered on this site. I have seen the other panel some months ago and I'm familiar with what the sparkles look like. This samsung does not look that...
You might try disconnecting your satellite or cable feed. I had a hum in my system that was traced back to the cable connection; some sort of ground loop problem.
If you can't resolve it, you may be able to reduce it with a filter. ...