Tender Green and Cosy orange

The One where I got 1.

Windows Vista Beta 2 build 5284

Now, what about the hardware working or not…

Graphic Card : OK.

Sound Card : OK. ( but no sound from speaker, only from headphone)

Screen Panel : OK. ( but could not calibrate)

Wireless LAN and Ethernet: OK.

Bluetooth Not Found.

Camera Not Found.

UPEK FingerPrint (drivers on Windows Update but […]

So far, screen is capped to 800×600, no sound, no calibration tool for the stylet. That was just for fun.

It took me a while to do those tests .
They were done with the default Standard Battery (2600mAh) from 100% (or almost) to 5% when windows decides to hibernate himself.
Wireless was OFF.
Video playing was done with MediaPlayerClassic.
MP3 playing was done with Window Media Player.
With the Power Profile : Power Management OFF

Running 3Dmark 2003 […]

The Vaio Type U comes with several windows power management.

from top to bottom:

Home / Office Desk
Portable / Laptop
Presentation
Always On
Minimal Power Management
Max Battery
Power Management OFF
VAIO Standard Settings
VAIO Stamina Settings
VAIO Super Stamina Settings

Here we see the default Power Management in green match up against himself in orange.

Clockwise, we have

12h Battery
02h Devices
05h Fan
07h Screen Brightness
10h Performance

Power Management OFF […]

My UX has a Toshiba MK3008GAL 1.8-inch CE HDD 30.0 GB.
It’s used in consumer electronic product and have a Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) connector.
So the maximum people will be able to upgrade at this time is the MK6008GAH with 60GB. I don’t know if other manufacturers have bigger ones.
**Update **
As someone reported, the […]

People like to boast my numbers and still thinks of me as crap… who am I ? …

So know you know what to expect from the Intel Express Graphics.
Every bench were performed with default settings @ 1024×600×32.
As for 3Dmark06 I didn’t take a shot, with the 2005 being very laggy already.

3DMark 2000 - 5664
Game […]

If you don’t have eagle eyes or understand french
Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility
Version: 2.8.20060328
Number of processors in system: 1
Current processor: #1
Processor Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) Solo CPU U1400 @ 1.20GHz
Type: 0
Family: 6
Model: E
Stepping: 8
Revision: 39
L1 Instruction Cache: 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 32 KB
L2 Cache: 2 MB
Packaging: µFCPGA/µFCBGA
EIST: Yes
MMX(TM): Yes
SIMD: Yes
SIMD2: Yes
SIMD3: Yes
Enhanced Halt State: No
Execute […]

You love planes ?
This post isn’t about them.

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I guess you figured that this post is about the BIOS.

The security feature lets you protect your Hard Drive with a Password, I first thought that it allowed me to protect it from being used outside the UX but I was wrong, it asks […]

So I finally got mine from geekstuff4u. Since there is already an unboxing slideshow here, I will spare you another one .
One difference is that it comes with the Carrying Stand that James Kendrick over at jkOnTheRun was looking for in his video.
So my VAIO OWNER MADE UX90 boast

Intel Core Solo U1400 @ […]