Akihabara News has just posted a video review of the new Vaio UX90PS, the new Micro PC with a solid-state 16GB flash drive. They compare its noticable, faster boot time with the Vaio UX50.
You can pre-order this black, special version of the Vaio UX at Dynamism for $2799. Personally, while I would like to […]

This post was done thanks to maxik who pointed me to KCAP.EXE.
It seems to be an old SONY utility found in old recovery CD, you use it to decompress Sony’s *.PAC file.
It should be used this way kcap.exe filename.pac destinationfolder

The First Step is to install windows using whatever way you want. I’m using an […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 @ […]

I just wanted to do a quick post to inform everyone that I managed to install Windows XP Tablet Edition on to My Vaio UX50. Booting off my new DVD drive, I used my wife’s Windows the office’s XP Tablet Edition OEM install CDs that came with her HP TC1100 tablet from it’s MSDN subscription […]

Last time I mentioned that I was upgrading my external optical drive to the Sony PCGA-DDRW3. I did place
an order for it at SonyStyle for $100 and it arrived after two days. This is a great deal by the way since this same drive is $200+ elesewhere. 

This firewire drive supports reading and writing to CDs, DVDs, and dual-layer […]