SP2 on new laptop

[suitcase]

I just bought a sony vaio laptop and it came with sp1. I have the sp2 disc. Is there anything I need to do before loading it? As a side, what is the quality of the viao's?

[HAL9000]

If it's new, its a clean install and SP2 should go on without any prior preparation and without a hitch.

[mrmister1]

You should have no problem installing SP 2 onto the laptop.

[Statica]

Make sure that you have no spyware or virus on your system BEFORE running SP2.
VAIO's are pretty high quality machines .. when they work, in my experience, and from vendors that I've talked to, they do have a pretty high recall rate, but if they work they are flat out some of the best out there.

[glc]

http://ciscdb.sel.sony.com/perl/news...19bb9d22454c54

Recommend you go through that first.

[suitcase]

Originally Posted by glc http://ciscdb.sel.sony.com/perl/news...19bb9d22454c54 Recommend you go through that first.

Thanks glc, I went there and it's alot to do. I don't have time now so maybe later, several downloads needed.

[suitcase]

Well I brought the laptop to work and hooked it up to our intranet lan. Their download speeds are much higher than my dialup. I got all the downloads I think are pertinent. Thanks for the help.

[bailey]

I just installed sp2 on my daughters vio laptop, it went very smothe and works great.

[GaryRouth]

Hope you enjoy your Vaio, I certainly have enjoyed the three or four models I've either had or bought for family and friends. I buy them for the screens, which I find just a touch brighter, clearer, and richer in tones than others. [Just bought my wife one a few months ago for her birthday].

The rest of the notebooks are on a par with everyone else. . . in the earlier Vaio notebooks, some funky system configuration went on. For example, for a 1ghz mobile-Athlon notebook with Windows XP a few years back, they formatted a rather small system partition with FAT32, and then used the larger partition as NTFS. Go figure. I changed things to NTFS all around, but shouldn't have had to. I also dislike the bundled Sony software that's intended to entice you into buying Sony cameras, camcorders, etc. [and that's sometimes incompatible with competing products] - the theme of their software seems just a bit too proprietary, and less supportive of open standards. They goofed a few registry settings in the early models, too, and had to post some rather embarrassing fixes on their support site. [For example, they pointed WFP (the Windows XP version of the Win9x System File Checker idea aka Windows File Protection) to a non-existent CD - in fact, one asking for different versions of XP --- it was supposed to be XP Home, and at various times, the prompts were for beta versions (Whistler) and bits of XP pro code [asked for the XP Pro CD, oops] . . . I'm wondering if they may have mixed and matched bits of XP to suit their software. Whatever the case, they just needed to point to files right there on the hard drive.

But the negatives are largely nit-picks, and easily remedied. Seems like it might just have been growing pains [they weren't oldtimers in the notebook market then].

Classy design all around, too - - their design teams pay a lot of attention to detail (a lot like the Mac and IBM designers = very attractive designs).
. . . Gary