Help find any information about vaio ar-series.Thanks! {?
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Try www.sony.com and see...
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The laptops we have here at work, mostly Dells, have lasted five years so far without one problem.  I know only one person that has a Vaio and her is still running fine after four years.  It really boils down to how well you take care of your system.  Laptops are a bit more fragile than Desktops.
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here the link:\n\nhttp://www.pcworld.com/article/id,118454-page,1/article.html
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Seems liek your buying aPc instead of a laptop....well u defintly need at least 1 Gb of Ram in  it...other than that i would personally advice you to go for an intel dual core processor they are the latest processors and the most effective. if you store or download a lot of media files you would need at least 160 gb of memory . Dell computers are one of the best  i think. they have reallygud monitors too.. if you get a dell it will mostly come with a monitor so that shouldnt be a problem. other than that  windows media centre home edition is a gud operating system,  if you are  gamer u SHOULD give very much importance to graphiv card. i would advice you to get a Nvidia Geforce card they come in different prices  depends on how much you would really use them. i have listed below the site to dell & a few other brands. how this would help you. Best of Luck..!!! :D
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Vista is still in beta, you should probably take anything you see on your system or anything you hear about it at this point with a grain of salt. It's not done yet.\n\nI don't have a machine to run Vista on at the moment, but I am cautiously optimistic. Some of the things they're doing with drivers, memory management and security sound good, at any rate. The eye candy is apparently important to some people, and what I've seen is pretty nice, but the graphics really aren't important in the long run.\n\nTo address the Mac zealot above me, please bear in mind that a lot of the goodness OS X has is from the FreeBSD base. The machines cost more than their functional equivalents, and while it's nice and stable and sensical (thanks FreeBSD), it's years behind the curve in terms of games or other serious applications.
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ATI and NVidia video cards tend to dominate the market.  They're good because a lot of technology behind the scenes, and research, is put into their products.  But they're also expensive the newer they are.\n\nCurrently you're going to be hard pressed to find a video card strictly designed for Windows Vista being that it won't be sold to the public until early 2007 (businesses in late 2006).\n\nBut you will be in luck because it's been said that Windows Vista will be "backwards compatible".  So pretty much any video card you buy will most likely work with Vista.  On the flipside of that, you'll have to get the Vista drivers for the video card when they become available.\n\nAdditionally, it's been shown that Vista is going to be rich in color and viewability.  More so than Windows XP.  So to maximize this benefit, you'll probably want to invest some good money into a video card that has at least 512 MB in memory.  Therefore Vista will look nicer to you and the card won't get old as fast as say you bought 128 MB video card right now (Vista minimum required).
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I tried the Vista Beta on a gForce FX5500 with 256MB of RAM. I would not go any lower than this, and even then you will probably have problems with anything but simple games.\n\nNewegg.com, tigerdirect.com, etc. etc.
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http://www.sony.co.th/vaio/World/philosophy2.html
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I would suggest you read product reviews and buying guide from below URL to determine what fit to your require spec:\n\nhttp://reviews.cnet.com/4520-7602_7-1016082-1.html?tag=dir\n\nPersonally, the Sony VAIO VGN-FJ170/B is a good choice for me based on your specification. Good luck.
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i own a vaio too and it's very good quality. the problem with my model is that the hinge supporting the monitor of the laptop is not so sturdy. i dont think any model the same as mine is still out but i think u should watch out for that if u are planning to buy a vaio.
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What Medic said is what I did with my computer, also a Sony Vaio. I simply identified the model of my computer, the web site gave me a list of available updates, and I checked them all and download them. I have dial up so the download took 18 hours but it did work. \nI started the download one afternoon and let it run until the next morning and it was finished. Then came installing them. \nSuggestion…print out the installation pages, it really helps.\nStart at the top one and work your way through the list. While installing any one if you should get an error message writhe it down next to the number you’re working on. And make sure you check off the ones that installed.\nIf they all install, great, you’re through. If not then you can go back and try to install the ones that wouldn’t install, for me they installed the second time through. I’m not a computer geek but I think it had something to do with programs that had to be up to date to be installed. It seemed that to install one update you needed to have the update that as before it, hence you had to install the previous update which unistalled the one you were using the newest one uninstalled that one to install it…weird!\nGood luck
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Look on ebay. In most cases an older laptop with P4 (1.4 - 1.8 GHz), 512MB Ram, 30 - 40 GB HD, DVD/CD-RW will do it. You should get 'em for $600 - 700. Look for\nIBM Thinkpad\nSony Vaio\nHP Omnibook
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Pretty good reviews for it here:\nhttp://reviews-zdnet.com.com/HP_Pavilion_a1250n_Athlon_64_X2_2_GHz/4505-3118_16-31533898.html
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Forget the Intel "Core 2 Duo" and look instead to those using the new AMD Turion. If you have the money, have a look at the new Alienware notebooks - Mac has NOTHING which even scratches the surface on these bad-boys (esp if you opt for the 1GB of graphics memory) ...you'll never look back
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What is the ultimate PDA device..the upcoming ultra portable device (aka Origami) which is predicted to fall flat on its face? Something retro like a Newton? A smart phone with a keypad? Smaller tablet PC. There can really be no ideal solution. You can't have portability and readability at the same time.  \nI personally would like something the size of a small DVD player, a 5 inch landscape oriented screen with a little bitty keyboard, but not too small, but that is the goal of this ultraportable device thing but it is still too large and heavy for its goals. Where do you draw the line between a microsize laptop or a big cell phone device?\nI have owned 2 ipaqs, the first being the very very first model that was available and have had a model 3950 for over 3 years. I like it and can get online with it but web surfing is a royal headache for sure. Email is OK. Mine isn't painfully slow. I have a GPS card for it which is fun.\nI am not getting a new one any time soon becaue in the past 3 years I have not seen any earth-shattering changes except for built in wifi (which I could get on a cf card if I wanted)...I guess I am waiting for something more amazing to come about.
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I would call that a mediocre comuter. Integrated graphics will not allow you to run all the features of Vista Aero if you upgrade or play many games, the hard drive is relatively small, and the RAM could be increased.
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Against my better judgement I'll recommend a Dell (and I can feal the hatemail comming). They own alienware anyway. And you can configure your system to your likeing. I'm just going to say that I just boungt this machine and I recommend is for all buget gamers. For a little under 1300$ with a diskount of 400$(that you get off their site) you can get the e1505 aka Inspiron 6400. \n\nIntel Core 2 Duo T7200 (4Mb Cache, 2.0Ghz, 667FSB) !!!\nXP Media Center and free upgrade to vista (it costs only 10 $ to ship it to you)\n15.4" Wide XGA with TrueLife\n2 GB of memmory !!!\n120 GB Sata HDD 5400 (a little slow for gamming so I recommend the 80 GB 7200 model for an extra 40$)\nDVD+-RW(just be warned: It is noisy)\nATI X1400 with 256 MB of VRAM Hipermemory\n\nI have the older series with only a 1.66 Core Duo processor and just 1 GB of RAM and I have played every game out there almost, at least a good bit of demos just to see if there is something that doesn't work with this card. There isn't. You might have to tune down the details here and there, or even lower the resolution but it will play anything. I got 1,000 3D 06 marks out of the box and 2,700 after a fair bit of tweaking with some -=DHzer0point=- drivers and NO overclocking. For a laptop that well above the average. \nI imagine that the Core 2 Duo processor would add about 30% to that and the doubled RAM another 20-40%. BTW I am not making up these numbers, I just read a lot of reviews :D