Good for you. Just dont do anything stupid with your laptop then.
Recovery discs is used when you suffers system instability, etc and you want to return your laptop to the original factory condition (the condition when you've just bought your laptop). In simple terms, it is a kind of "REFORMAT PC".

Its OK if you didn't create the disc. But when problem occurs in the future and your model have been phased out, you'll have to send it to the service center and wait for XX days just to perform System Recovery. With the disc, you an perform the system recovery by yourself and it only takes about 3-4 hours.
"Be sure to create recovery discs"

XD
Any DVD-R will do. Dont put DVD-RW. It'll reject it. It wont burn.
Yes, the recovery data is stored in the HDD.

Hi fellow FW users...

Have u tried out ur lappy with running only battery?

How long can ur FW lasts? Under what circumstances, i.e: what brightness, what program running, watching movie using ROM... etc.

Do mention ur battery size too (std/ext)

I haven't really start using it since I haven't create recovery disc, afraid something bad might happen to it 

Are any DVDs will do to create the recovery disc?

What model are you using right now? How's your Vaio treating you? 

Thanks for the feedback. Means I should very glad with my battery I have now.

Wait for ur feedback again on minimal usage

No issue, thanks for ur concern.

I juz wondering if my battery serves me long enuff with 4hrs+

On full charge, it shows 5hrs+
I never tried drain off fully on the battery b4. But oftenly it lasts 2hrs+ for my Internet surfing outside without the cord, and it consume about 40% of the charge.

By the way, I using an extended battery for my FW.
Something I read in Internet, never let ur battery on full charge when u not using it, or planning for long storage. Best storage is at 40% charge.

And it's no harm for us to charge it again without fully drain off. It's ok for LiIon battery to do that. But advisable to fully discharge it once a month so something inside there will have a reset. I not sure what it is anyway.

Now at home I fully run on power & detach battery. At outside, I fully run on batt. Coz the batt is 500gram already, no space for the cord d~

Pls correct me again if I got this wrong...

Pyramid no Sony Style.

and... cooling pad?

LOLWUD?

What do u mean by cooling pad will work with battery detached??

Let me get this correct, u mean if I'm running the FW without the battery (detach), the cooling pad from the USB will run?
- Yes, I'm using my FW without the battery at home, the USB cooling pad is blowing.

I bought a Cooler Master Notepal but when I detached the battery, it wont spin.
I gave it to my sister (since she had an Asus) and bought a new one.
But the cooling fan should run if the battery is detached izzit? Sorry, I am a bit noob..this is my first laptop

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Added on January 8, 2010, 12:42 am
The extended battery is damn heavy... 0.5kg~~

But it'll save u the effort to find the plug whenever u go, it'll amaze ppl with ur huge lappy running for hours without cable outside too as a bonus 

that bar is called the vaio gate.it doesn matter,bot are the same.
i have it on my vaio fw also.

So it's the sound of the fan.

I believe u could only hear them when u're alone in the room in midnight, where it's very silent room.
So, who can show me how can I get this Vaio Gate thingy? Why it's not in my FW by default??

Guys... What's ur Vista/Win7 rating?

Juz curious how VAIO series scoring on demanding Windows platform...

Z series even lower.. 4.x

You want to help your Vaio make up ah?

If we register the product within 7 days, would that mean we have 15 months of warranty in total?