hey guys, am still under considering to gettting a vaio cr35g or some other model from dell

i really wanted to get a laptop that dun depend too much on luck bout it's quality, as i am a dell's services provider, i sometimes do actually feel quite sad with it's product quality, and that's why i am considering about Sony's laptop as i need a better quality laptop to do my daily works, and some fun with the laptop without any hassle...

i need some feedback from the users over here about it's quality, services, the pro and cons about it... anyone?

finally got my cr35g

eh, who is this in my msn list
reveal urself!

btw i got mine with some freebie include +1GB ram, keyboard cover, carry case, vaio wired optical mouse and +1 year local warranty

updated to sp1 as well, and today got a bsod, maybe due to the driver issue of the external bluetooth device -,- which related to broadcom?

it might be ur laptop cant discharge/ground the electric properly... are u using the 2 pin or 3 pin @_@
else u better sent back to sony services center

not sure for ur's but as my cr35, i found that the speaker quality just enough to hear when it's on maximum volume, quite ok for me thou as most of the Dell's laptop speaker also until that kind of volume only
well, dun expect too much from a laptop's speaker, as some of the speaker size just as big as our 20cent or 50cent coin only
unless u go get those unit which build in with altec lansing or 3 way speakers like Dell's 9600

after using my cr35g for almost 1month, so far feel very satisfied with it
cpu temperature wise, maximum reach 59 degree only, but normally reach till 57 and not raising anymore eventhou multi-tasking with game, windows media player and firefox
3 times of BSOD, but still very satisfied with the performance except starting up after the login windows only

This post has been edited by aH wAi: May 8 2008, 11:14 PM

nope, u get shock when plug-in ur power adapter right? if yes, 2pin or 3pin power cord u're using?(i read somewhere else b4 the some of the 3-pin power cord not work like 3-pin at all ) if 3-pin, i think ur power cord cant ground the static or whatever it called properly, by the way, it's better u take it to sony services center which located in Mid Valley south court i guess (i'm sure there's a services center in mv, but not sure where exactly it is)
normally those sales person in Sony Centre talk crap alot 1, they do sales only not after sales services, so if u meet the wrong person, normally they dun really care

i guess this issue can go back to sony center to make warranty claim from them as Dell do include this as 1 of the warranty claim(worse case is replace the whole Mobo) due to technical/hardware quality issue

hm, nop... so far never encounter before...

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anyway for those who plan to get notebook cooler, maybe u can try to get Cooler Master's Infinite... it does help
below is the test between Cooler Master's Notepal vs Cooler Master Infinite with max fan speed

light yellow as Notepal, and light green as Infinite

notepal does nothing special, not even decrese any temp at all -,-" but infinite does help at least 3 degree or more depends on ur environment

p/s, yeah, seem like speedfan and HWMonitor both show different temperature

This post has been edited by aH wAi: May 10 2008, 07:53 PM

since u said so, the price range will be around how much?

u mean the CAPDASE keypad cover?
if yes, for CR model, it dun cover up until the steel part

u never try that cover b4 u decide to buy 1 meh?
but if u're using it, the feeling of the keypad will not as good as when u're using the cover, and sometime u'll feel that u got stuck as it dun those kind of "bounce back" feel

yes u can upgrade the ram by urself and not void warranty(from what i understand from the sales person in Sony Center)

i think it is possible, if i'm not wrong, as most of the vaio laptop nowadays come with their sony application which is VAIO Media that can sync ur music/video with most of the sony's multimedia product(provided the product got built in bluetooth/wifi or some other way)

as for VAIO CR35 series, it's speaker memang softer than some other laptop alot, eventhou those display unit in sony style/center/shop also like that 1

am still wondering where can i find the windows vista/xp install disc/image for our VAIO...
sys./windows restore and vaio recovery just not that useful for me =X

depends on which model
went to Sony shop in the curve that day and saw there's few model they're having promotion, 1 of it is CR353 which giving out a wired optical mouse, a cover and 1 more forgot what already

for me, my cr35 is superb, and it's not that hot after some hardcore gaming/processing compare to most of my customer's laptop
too bad it's not nvidia gpu, but ATI just ngam ngam enough for me to use

well, in fact, it's almost same thick as inspiron, just that the design make it look slimmer alot and of coz the multimedia button look more solid instead of delll's plastic build multimedia button

lcd wise, it's much more brighter and clear than dell

and also, choose the color wisely, if u dun wanna catch too much of attention, dun take colors like too special 1
i got mine as red and it catch alot of attention whenever i'm using it in public area
i should just go for black or blue

CR32/35 is worth to buy for a sony vaio series and for those who wan a good looking notebook with acceptable performance, just that i am so greedy about the graphic and the ATI x2300 still cant satisfied my need

anyway, CR35G's Vista rating is 3.8 and dell xps1330 were around 3.9~4.x

am a CR35G Red user and so far so good, but got free 1GB ram(total 3GB)+keyboard cover+laptop briefcase+vaio optical mouse+extra 1 year warranty with rm4488 from a very nice sales person

leng chai, no time no see, still lepak-ing in wangsa maju with ah thang them?