Got it from Best Buy for $1500. Gonna pick it up tommorow after he clears with the manager cause tehy aren't supposed to sell it yet lol GOt that and a leather case althoguh I might go with nylon since it's $40-50 more for leather. Also got the $250 battery replacement warranty


EDIT: forgot abotu the specs...

• Model
PCG-FRV26

• Processor
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor 2.80GHz1

• Cache Memory
512 KB integrated on-die level 2

• Bus Speed
533 MHz

• LCD
15” XGA (1024x768) TFT display

• Graphics
ATI RADEON IGP 345M 64MB (shared)

• Memory
512 MB DDR SDRAM (256MB x 2), expandable to 1024MB

• Hard Drive
40 GB2,12 hard drive

• CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive
Internal CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive
(Max speeds: CD-R write 24x, CD-RW write 10x, CD-ROM read 24x, DVD-ROM read 8x)

• Optional Floppy Drive
External 1.44 MB, 3.5" USB floppy drive (PCGA-UFD5)

• Modem
Integrated V.90 modem

• Ethernet
10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Ethernet with RJ-45 interface

• Memory Stick® Media Slot10
Supports optional Memory Stick® media

• Pointing Device/Keyboard
Electro-Static touch pad
86 key QWERTY layout, with 2.7mm stroke and 19.19mm pitch

• Estimated Battery Life4
Lithium-ion battery 1.5-2.0 hours4

• PC Card Slots
Two type I or II, or one type III card slot; CardBus support

• Audio
Windows® sound system compatible with 3D surround
Built-in stereo speakers; monaural mini-jack microphone

• Other Interfaces
i.LINK® (IEEE 1394) interface3, AV out (mini jack), 3 USB 2.0 ports, RJ-11 modem jack, RJ-45 Ethernet, VGA output, parallel, headphone (stereo), mic-in

• Power Requirements
135 watts maximum +/- 10% (19.5V / AC100-240V)
Energy Star® compliant
Advanced power management - APM-ACPI compatible

• Size (H x W x D)
1.65" - 2.26” X 13" X 10.8"

• Weight
7.72 lbs. with one battery

• Supplied Accessories
Lithium-ion battery, power cord, AC adapter

 

sweet buy :thumbup:

 

Let me know how you like it, I am in the market for a new laptop after my experience with my Thinkpad I want a new one

It's a toss up between an g4 laptop from the Mac family or one of the VAIO laptops

> *

 

I don't relaly know much about the laptops. I just like the feel and quality of the Sony laptops compared to the HP and Compaq. Maybe it's because I have fat fingers I Don't really know but the Sony laptop came out on top in the end. I would consider Dell also but I don't know anyone that has one where I can test the keypads. I could easily spell my name 10 times on the VAIO until messing up. I also looked at there more mobile and smaller laptops but those keys were just too small for fatty me :wiggle:

 

i'm gonna be in the market for a laptop purdy soon. My vaio desktop is about 9 mos old and i've never had any prob with it at all, so i'm hoping that vaio laptops are the same quality.

i <3 sony

 

What desktop do you have? I ahve the PCV-RX860 and it rocks :rockon:

 

i got rz22. i think:dunno:

i want one of those laps with the tvtuner built in and the dvd+-rw burner built in:naughty:

 

Thats the better model of my desktop with the better video card and other inputs

 

This laptop (like mine) is what I like to call a big honker. It's got a 15" screen, weighs over 7 lbs, and has a Pentium 4 processor. There's nothing wrong with this, especially since I have one, and it's a good way to get a lot of features for not too much money. Downsides are that it's heavy and the battery usually lasts about 2.5 hours at most.

The other kind is more portable-oriented. It has a Pentium 4-M processor (designed specifically for mobile applications) that generally runs at a lower clock speed, weighs usually under 6 lbs, and has the potential to get a shitload of time out of a charge.

I went with the big honker because I can tolerate the extra couple of pounds and I wanted to get the most performance for the price. However when I'm running from class to class with the thing on my back I do think about how it would be nice to have something smaller and with longer battery life. But hey I was on a limited budget ($1500) so I got what I got.

Oh and there's also Apple which are really nice but kind of pricey for the amount of stuff you get. I don't have anything against them and they're sexy as hell. It was just I could get an 833 MHz iBook or 2 GHz HP big honker for the same price.

 

Hotness, I would like to purchase a mac sometime, simply cause the industry seems to work with macs, my a30 thinkpad pisses me off so much, once I get it running I am selling it, I have worked on Thinkpads for awhile, and when I purchase one it falls apart every other day.

I like my bro's Toshiba, but the keyboard layout is way to weird for me, it's to scrunched up for my semi puggy hands :wtc: