My wife has a top of the line Sony SZ48 series Vaio. Fantastic machine - carbon fibre case, weighs next to nothing, two GPUs. Performance out of the box is abysmal. I replaced the drive with a 7200 RPM disk, upped the RAM, and tried to remove as much Sony crapware as possible (it even comes with its own copy of SQL Server to manage your media - because WMP obviously can't do that). Runs a lot better now, but I suspect it'll run a lot better with a clean install.
Cheers Ken From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 11 May 2008 9:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Why XP is doomed Check out this story: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=429 It's a perfect example of a manufacturer shipping a Vista machine with unacceptable performance. This resulted in a black eye for the manufacturer (Sony in this case, but they're not the only ones to do this) and a lost customer for the manufacturer and Microsoft alike. I didn't participate in the Vista beta, but I did grab it as soon as it RTM'd. I installed it on my home desktop, which is a modest box (Pentium D CPU w/ 2 GB of RAM) I built myself a good year before Vista was released. It ran great. Still does. Now, if I could run Vista fine on a machine that I built from parts that were never designed to work with Vista, why is it that PC manufacturers can't ship brand new machines that work as well? John From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 3:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Why XP is doomed Hold on there... If an OS requires new drivers and more horsepower... we can't blame the new OS? Oh yes we can. --Matt ross ________________________________ From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Vista wasn't perfect out of the gate, but it's not the piece of junk people think it is, either. A huge reason Vista has a negative image is that the hardware OEMs have been releasing buggy drivers for it--if they released drivers for it at all--and have been shipping Vista computers that either don't have enough horsepower or are bloated with crapware or bad drivers (or all three). It all adds up to a bad experience for users, and the OS gets the blame. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.23.15/1426 - Release Date: 5/10/2008 11:12 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
