General observation on Vaio notebooks

[aray420608045]

I am not sure if this is the correct section in the forum for this but as it deals with notebooks I thought it the most fitting. With reference to Notebooks only. I see from various posters on the forum that a lot of customers appear to be unhappy with performance, noisy fans, and VRAM definitions/setup. Why would a company with Sony¿s reputation build machines that run like a dog. Being honest given today¿s technology a P4 processor coupled with 512MB of RAM and hard-drive speeds increasing should perform reasonably well. I mean we can send probes to Mars why can¿t we make mobile fans quiet and only to activate when the processor is in need of cooling?. It appears that fans in some of the notebooks run continuously. As far as VRAM is concerned we can choose 32,64 or 128MB at the sacrifice of main memory as it is shared. Apparently you lose performance dependant upon the amount of VRAM you choose. But nobody has stated how much performance is lost?. Finally to end my ranting after much trawling of the forum and helpful assistance from Kee-Lo and Rich912 to name a few why don¿t Sony tell you how to change fan noise, VRAM and performance factors without the need continually ask the same question on the forum.

Does anyone know the answer to this and my previous questions? JD76

[kee-lo_]

Why do manufacturers put desk top cpu's into laptops.

I don't know, for power hungry users, but there's a consequance, you have to clean it on a regular basis, too hot to sit on your lap, and often the CPU doesn't run to it's full because it gets too hot.

Nick Pan wrote a great thread on this, you can find the link on my info site.

[aray420608045]

Cheers Kee-lo I'll check out your link, I assume there is a way of taking your Vaio safely apart for fan cleaning? That's the problem being new to the forum I am probably asking similar questions to the 100's of other newbies. Probably a need to a FAQ section but I realise this takes time to develop. But thanks for being very helpful. JD

[Eugenepang]

hmm funny so far i havent heard the sound of fan on my vaio., i check out the temp and tis between 52-60++ .. on my old vaio the fan start as soon as i turn it on..

[kee-lo_]

If I had access to VAIOs I would write a guide for each one.