i installed NFS carbon, NFS undercover, hitman, marine sharprhooter 4, COD4, and red alert 3..
NFS carbon, Hitman, marine sharpshooter 4, highest setting..
COD4 and NFS undercover-high settings..
red alert 3-medium settings..

i think crysis low setting..i didnt install because i dont like the game..and the file is too big.
but NFS carbon and undercover didnt support the 1600 x 900 resolution..it'll be square..
others, full widescreen..superb.
if you want to play games, sell the free VAIO mouse and buy a razer..superb.

no wonder..you ordered before the PC fair..sure you get the freebies..

driver? nay..no need..for me, 2gb ram is already enough..the graphics card is GDDR3, so its good enough..checked with GPU-Z..if DDR2 then maybe need to share memory so upgrade is a must..my notebook use less than 50% of the RAM memory most of the time..so, why need upgrade? but if you want, just add another 1gb..4gb is kind of useless with vista 32bit..

bout the driver..there is windows update and VAIO update..so you dont have to worry bout anything..

you are into gaming rite? get a razer instead of the bluetooth VAIO mouse..bluetooth mouse is quite heavy for gaming, and you can get a decent razer mouse and mat for that price..

cooler pad?? i LOLed and ROFLed over it..dude, you would never believe yourself when you start playing games later..almost no heat at all. just dont put your hand beside the heatsink on the left..that air vent emits heat like hell man..but you feel nothing on the keyboard and touchpad..its like miracle! i use HP pavilion DV2000 before, keyboard and touchpad area feels quite hot after two hours. i played NFS the whole day on my VAIO, no heat at all..the heat circulation is really2 good..salute the engineers who design it man..
btw, get a cooler master notepal if you insist on cooling pad..its custom made to fit any laptops...or this small cooler which you attach to the air vent..something around RM70..cheap and good..since the heat came out from the airvent, this cooler suck out the heat more..imagine a VAIO with a cooler..

dont forget to buy a good headphones too..sennheiser HD201 will be good enough..the realtek soundcard can do wonders! you'll get cinema-like 5.1 surround sound on an earphone!

dont worry bout recovery lah..your computer got nothing inside..
i tried d..you need external HDD or DVD..they didnt save it in the computer of course..
it works like time machine..

no its not..but i dont know what caused that..sorry dude..

btw is yours CS13? RAm is 1gb rite? you need atleast 2gb to run vista smoothly..well, that might be the problem..lack of memories.

i saw TZ selling at best denki KLCC for rm3.9 k..that was during Christmas...

i feel like buying the whole lorry of it man. kind of weird how that little VAIO can be so cheap.

FW12 for rm3600 is cheap..its more powerful than the newer FW23..