RE: My UN-automated Home :-(

["Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Yeah ... I hear that the new ones are far better. Isn't the C1VM the
Transmeta Crusoe processor based model? I had thought of buying a newer
model but this one does most of what I want it to do which is provide me
with access to my email (and limited needs for MS Office / Corel Draw /
Corel Xara etc.) when I'm not at home. OK ... as a P266 it's never going to
break any processing records - especially with only 64Mb. (The memory
expansion on this model is horrendously expensive too!) Overall though I
love it ... it has one of the best LCD screens that I think I have ever
seen
on any device and everyone who sees it is sure it must be a Windows CE
machine at first!

Do you know whether the drive in the PCG-C1F is a 9.5 or 12mm high one?

Cheers

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rj@xxxxxxx [mailto:rj@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 28 February 2001 21:30
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] My UN-automated Home :-(
>
>
> they seem to of finally got the batteries sorted the newer C1VM has a
5.5
> hour battery (actually lasts around 4 hours), the disk in your
> machine is a
> standard laptop hard drive, available from anywhere, they have 12 and
20gb
> drives available.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 1 March 2001 10:13
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] My UN-automated Home :-(
>
>
>
> A PCG-C1F ... the battery life is sooo bad that booting it up from
cold
> gives me a battery level of about 60% remaining when the battery meter
> software is loaded. If I have my LAN/Modem card in then battery
> life is down
> to about 10 minutes.
>
> It has always been bad ... never better than 25 - 30 minutes if I boot
on
> mains and thenn pull the plug, maybe 40 if I got aggressive with the
spin
> down of the hard disc and processor slowdown and didn't do anything
which
> needed to spin the drive up again. The battery manager software says
my
> battery is in good condition and at full power (11.10v, 17.20Wh - same
as
> it's always been - and 173 charge cycles), however the battery manager
> software also estimates my battery as having a "time to
empty" of 2:45
> (Which I assume is hrs and minutes - not minutes and seconds! *grin*).
>
> I know it's a tiny PC and I love it for what it is - which to me is a
> superbly portable email environment - but as a working machine ...
well,
> let's just say that the other VAIO's don't perform so badly off
> their leads!
>
> Do you know what size (physically) the hard disc in the PCG-C1F
> is? I'd love
> to get a bigger capacity hard disc in there if I could. 4 Gb is
getting
> cramped nowadays!
>
> Cheers
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rj@xxxxxxx [mailto:rj@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 28 February 2001 20:14
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] My UN-automated Home :-(
> >
> >
> > what model vaio??? (I work for vaio technical here in NZ)
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 28 February 2001 11:00
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] My UN-automated Home :-(
> >
> >
> > Ah yes ... thankfully my laptop has a built in UPS. Sony call
> it a battery
> > but when it comes to this VAIO here the battery life is about 20
minutes
> > tops which is - to me - a UPS!
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 28 February 2001 09:53
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] My UN-automated Home :-(
> > >
> > >
> > > > LAPTOP?
> > >
> > > Remember me asking for a cheap supplier of laptop batteries
> > > as the 2nd hand
> > > ThinkPad I bought had a dud battery!! :-(
> > >
> > > What a really crap day yesterday was :-(
> > >
> > > When the electrons stop flowing so does the fun!!
> > >
> > > M.
> > >
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