PLEASE HELP.......SONY N11M vaio laptop

[Schofield]

hey guys


some quick responses here would be very much appreciated i have a £ 600 limit and want a new sony vaio laptop now ive seen this model N11M/W and i like it a lot and has all the features i like.....Could you please tell me your opinions on it, as all i use really is the net for surfing music and friends......whats the difference by the way between XP media center edition and XP professional ....PLease help...THANKS a lot

 

[touch]

seems pretty nice.
Those sony X-Black screens look great.
and its got all the usual little things:
DVDrw
wireless adaptor
etc

 

[LanceCrossfire]

hey guys


some quick responses here would be very much appreciated i have a £ 600 limit and want a new sony vaio laptop now ive seen this model N11M/W and i like it a lot and has all the features i like.....Could you please tell me your opinions on it, as all i use really is the net for surfing music and friends......whats the difference by the way between XP media center edition and XP professional ....PLease help...THANKS a lot

pro has less driver support then media centre, and is really only used in business due to extra networking features...
as for the laptop, it feels very solid, definatly a break from the rest of the vaio brand as its colour scheme is very mac esc, unfortunatly it can get dirty quick and doesnt feature a built in webcam like most of the other vaios... if your after a sony then its a good buy but you can get better specification by "sacrificing" the brand for something like compaq or toshiba....

 

[TBirdUK]

XP Media center is XP Professional with a media frount end. You can get other make media centers for XP Pro - I like XP Media center and use it quite a lot on my PC.

On Sony VAIO - I have one, not that make and find it great - only thing I'd say is do a clean install if you can as the sony software that comes with it is crap and uses up resources (and constantly loads into the tray!!)

 

[no_1_dave]

pro has less driver support then media centre, and is really only used in business due to extra networking features...

Ummm, no.
Pro is mainly used instead of Home because of the extra networking features.
Media Centre has some great new options but Media Centre also has less driver support then Pro.

 

[LanceCrossfire]

Ummm, no.
Pro is mainly used instead of Home because of the extra networking features.
Media Centre has some great new options but Media Centre also has less driver support then Pro.

media centre, is xp pro without the a few of its network protocols...
also try grabbing 10 of the shelf pc's containing xp home and upgrade them to pro, a bet says that 9 of those 10 will go **** up due to pro not supporting a certain piece of hardware... then do it with media centre and see everything be all hunky dory
and yes a lot of people do use pro for its networking advantages over home, BUT what i was getting at is far, far more people use home edition due to a few things...
a. cheaper
b. 90% of off the shelf laptops and pc's come with home on them(or media centre)
c. why pay all the money for pro when your just running a home pc, with absolutly no use for it...

 

[tom_e]

media centre, is xp pro without the a few of its network protocols...
also try grabbing 10 of the shelf pc's containing xp home and upgrade them to pro, a bet says that 9 of those 10 will go **** up due to pro not supporting a certain piece of hardware... then do it with media centre and see everything be all hunky dory
and yes a lot of people do use pro for its networking advantages over home, BUT what i was getting at is far, far more people use home edition due to a few things...
a. cheaper
b. 90% of off the shelf laptops and pc's come with home on them(or media centre)
c. why pay all the money for pro when your just running a home pc, with absolutly no use for it...

Ive never come across any hardware that needed a different driver for home/pro

 

[LanceCrossfire]

Ive never come across any hardware that needed a different driver for home/pro

see it near enough every day where i work... they buy an off the shelf pc, take it home and our back within a few days with a deleted recovery partition and running xp pro, then my guys say "sorry your screwed, you shouldnt have installed xp pro and you should have made a set of recovery media"... pro supports a lot of networking hardware, but stuff like tv cards, intergrated wireless adaptors...no go... if you buy your components seperatly then usually pro will support it, but machines off the shelf are slightly different, they have components made or modified specifically for them and that particular pc(which was only made to run xp home or media centre, this is especially true for laptops...)

 

[Schofield]

i got the laptop yesterday afternoon and absoloutly LOVE IT....thanks guys

 

[Jonnycoupe]

How are you finding this Laptop now?

This is in my price range for an insurance replacment so looking around at various models with this sort of spec from Acer and Toshiba but suprised to see a Vaio in there. Does look nice indeed and slim at 2.9cm.