RE: My UN-automated Home :-(

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

Nope, no cheaper over here ... I think it's about £160 for the
standard
capacity unit and £250 for the extra life one. Might try to get one
out of
Sony under warranty as my Club VAIO membership says that my guarantee
expires 01 Apr 2001.

Phil



> -----Original Message-----
> From: rj@xxxxxxx [mailto:rj@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 08 March 2001 22:23
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] My UN-automated Home :-(
>
>
> you will die when you see what there charging for replacement
> batteries for
> these things, lets just hope there a little cheaper where you are
> than here
> in NZ.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, 9 March 2001 11:20
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] My UN-automated Home :-(
>
>
> It seems that the battery in my PCG-C1F has finally died ... it seems
to
> charge and reach all it's voltages but pull the power cord and
> *POOF* ... it
> goes down quicker than (insert your favourite "going down"
joke here).
>
> Is it's 14 months old then I guess I'm springing for a new battery...
>
> 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)
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
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