Hi all, this is my first post, I just got my first notebook pc yesterday, a Sony BX-575B (1.86 centrino, 17", XP Pro). Wasn't able to find any reviews of this exact model, and very few of the BX series at all, but got an excellent deal on ebay, so I crossed my fingers and went for it. First impression is that it's a beautiful, if huge, machine, seems well made...... the screen doesn't seem to be as incredible as I've read the Xbrite is supposed to be, good enough, but nothing special. Actually, when it was first booting up and the screen was black, I noticed some "light" bleeding in on the bottom and sides, don't know if that's common or not, but doubt I'll notice it much in my activities anyway. I'm going to be using this beast as a multitrack audio recording workstation, and for some video editing......
Which brings me to the one real negative that I noticed right away; the fan immediately started up, and during the 2 hours I was on there, just going through minor set-up tweaks and reading the onboard literature, it kept turning on and off constantly, like it'd be on for 5 seconds, then off for 10, on and on like that, very erratic and annoying. And the fan does seem loud to me, though I don't really have any other laptops to compare it to, I don't remember them sounding like that in the stores when I was looking around. I could handle it though, if it were just on or off for longer periods of time, if I'm trying to record audio, I'm really going to notice the noise more if it's constantly fluctuating.
I poked around to see if there was anyplace to change the fan settings, but didn't find anything. I'll probably call Sony about this, but thought I'd try here first to see if this was normal, or if anyone had any ideas. Thanks for reading my lengthy post, I'm sure it won't be my last......
Thanks!
Which brings me to the one real negative that I noticed right away; the fan immediately started up, and during the 2 hours I was on there, just going through minor set-up tweaks and reading the onboard literature, it kept turning on and off constantly, like it'd be on for 5 seconds, then off for 10, on and on like that, very erratic and annoying. And the fan does seem loud to me, though I don't really have any other laptops to compare it to, I don't remember them sounding like that in the stores when I was looking around. I could handle it though, if it were just on or off for longer periods of time, if I'm trying to record audio, I'm really going to notice the noise more if it's constantly fluctuating.
I poked around to see if there was anyplace to change the fan settings, but didn't find anything. I'll probably call Sony about this, but thought I'd try here first to see if this was normal, or if anyone had any ideas. Thanks for reading my lengthy post, I'm sure it won't be my last......
Thanks!
