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Mary Hardy
08-18-2005, 07:09 PM
I'm tired of lugging my heavy laptop around to every meeting. I'm looking for a nice light compact laptop that will keep me connected, and allow me to carry work and presentations around. I also don't want to faff about with external drives, so integrated DVD ROM would be good. I'm looking at the Sony Viao TR3, because it's so very pretty and I am shallow.

Anyone got one of these, or a better suggestion?
DW Simpson
08-18-2005, 08:05 PM
When I looked into this a year or so ago (but never got around to buying anything), I thought the Vaio was the way to go. It's sweet in person.

Here's a comparison: http://reviews.cnet.com/Notebooks/4521-6527_7-5021302-7.html
Abnormal
08-21-2005, 06:38 PM
I've got the Viao - great little machine.

More than powerful enough for most things I want to do on the road (keyboard is perhaps a touch small for my hands). Pretty good battery life - last time we flew from Toronto to Vancouver my kids managed to watch two movies with an earphone splitter before it died on them.
GadgetGeek
08-22-2005, 01:58 PM
my kids managed to watch two movies with an earphone splitter before it died on them.
Thats a pretty impressive earphone splitter. And here I went and spent all that money on a portable DVD player.:-)
Wannabe Actuary
08-22-2005, 02:59 PM
The one drawback of Sony used to be that there was no floppy and you would need a pen drive...now, that's the norm anyway, so the Sony is a great way to go.
Mary Hardy
08-22-2005, 06:35 PM
Talked to our supplier today, he recommended the Fujitsu P7010 -- as more reliable than Sony and better value for money. The Sony's prettier, but the balance of internet opinion seems to go for the Fujitsu.
Brad Gile
08-22-2005, 08:05 PM
Thats a pretty impressive earphone splitter. And here I went and spent all that money on a portable DVD player.:-)

I gave my 6 year old grandson a portable DVD player + a couple movies for his birthday. His mom and dad tell me that was a godsend on a recent trip. :D

Brad
Curare
08-24-2005, 01:29 PM
Talked to our supplier today, he recommended the Fujitsu P7010 -- as more reliable than Sony and better value for money. The Sony's prettier, but the balance of internet opinion seems to go for the Fujitsu.

I agree. The Fujitsu P7010 seems more reliable and the Atheros wireless card has better reception than the Intel cards. Check out this excel spreadsheet (http://www.leog.net/ftp/laptops.xls) from the Fujitsu forums comparing various ultra portables. Eventhough the table shows that the P7010 takes a msximum RAM of 1GB, the machine will take up to 2GB.

The one thing I like about the Sony is the bluetooth capabilities.
petera
08-30-2005, 05:19 AM
I agree. The Fujitsu P7010 seems more reliable and the Atheros wireless card has better reception than the Intel cards. Check out this excel spreadsheet (http://www.leog.net/ftp/laptops.xls) from the Fujitsu forums comparing various ultra portables. Eventhough the table shows that the P7010 takes a msximum RAM of 1GB, the machine will take up to 2GB.

The one thing I like about the Sony is the bluetooth capabilities.

I totally agree with you. Sony and its parts are expensive! For me, I used Toshiba and Fujitsu, which are very reliable. Please pay attention to the laptop harddisk. I had a terribly experience with Acer. The harddisk was broken two times within the warranty. Even though the harddisk was replaced, all my info was lost!