Just got my new Sony. I like it allot, the only reason for buying 380 instead of 270 or 360 was that the 380 had the Sonoma chipset. I was however a little scared of the NVIDIA 6200 Go. I have been an ATI fan for many years but now that I have tested the 6200 card I am very surprised. I just installed The Chronicles of Riddick - Escape From Butcher Bay and UT 2004, and the little Sony runs it smooth, at least smooth enough for me.
Riddick was in 800x600 pixels, everything else in best quality, no AA or AF.
UT2004 was in 1280x800 every detail in very high or high no AA or AF.
I have read that some guys are complaining about fan noise. You can hear the fan almost all the time but I don’t think it’s all that annoying. I love the build quality, the vaio s body seams very well built no creaking noises at all, and that’s more than I can say about my old DELL I8600.
all-in-all the 380 really stands up to what I ecspected, its lightning fast in windows applications, really fair 3d performance for such a small lappy. Beautiful X-BRIGHT screen.
The only real flaw in this model is that it really heats up in the bottom right corner, as I write this short text I sweat in the right palm.
I formatted it with a regular windows xp cd because of all the damn programs that Sony has on the recovery cd and now I am having a problem getting the brightness and volume keys to work, I have tried every thing in the book and nothing seam to work, judging by all the threads I have read on this problem on the forum it seams to be a common problem on all Sony’s
Riddick was in 800x600 pixels, everything else in best quality, no AA or AF.
UT2004 was in 1280x800 every detail in very high or high no AA or AF.
I have read that some guys are complaining about fan noise. You can hear the fan almost all the time but I don’t think it’s all that annoying. I love the build quality, the vaio s body seams very well built no creaking noises at all, and that’s more than I can say about my old DELL I8600.
all-in-all the 380 really stands up to what I ecspected, its lightning fast in windows applications, really fair 3d performance for such a small lappy. Beautiful X-BRIGHT screen.
The only real flaw in this model is that it really heats up in the bottom right corner, as I write this short text I sweat in the right palm.
I formatted it with a regular windows xp cd because of all the damn programs that Sony has on the recovery cd and now I am having a problem getting the brightness and volume keys to work, I have tried every thing in the book and nothing seam to work, judging by all the threads I have read on this problem on the forum it seams to be a common problem on all Sony’s
