A stylish multimedia companion - dressed in Electric Purple. Sony has earlier offered this model, available in Liquorice Black, Cotton White, Caramel Cream, Spicy Red, Coral Pink.
Note that the CS-21Z series is being offered with Blu-ray Disc™ Combo drive, with the exact same specs as the CS-21S.
This model belongs to the "Lifestyle" line of Sony Notebooks, along with the P series. Others are "Mobility", "Multimedia", Vaio Professional" - give and take on terminology depending on the countries.
I came across this Electric Purple in late February 2009, whilst on projects in Hamburg, Germany. I was intrigued by the colour setting, influenced by the passion of my fiancée -thus a must-have present for her cancer fight. A call to a friend in UK led to a surprise learning that it was no so readily available, due to its "colour", and since I needed a UK keyboard (the lady still has issue with the weird German letters ), a wait of 3 weeks was in order to chase down the unit..............
Have used my txn daily for 2 years.. slow but love the size for portability. Booted up this morning and there's a purple-ish streak going down the right side of the screen. See 2 pics attached. (I've never attached pics so hopefully this will work).
Is this streak a sign the LCD is going bad or the graphics card going bad?
I have received numerous shocks from my Inspiron N4110 when handling the case. Shocks come from sides and from underside of case--usually when reaching out to put the computer down after having it on my lap. This has happened when operating while plugged in (do not recall if it has happened also when operating on battery). On two occasions, it was sufficient to kil the screen and turn it into horizontal static lines. (See photo below.) No loss of data, and was able to power up again immediately. This unit is some 15 months old. What is causing this? Room is carpeted and air may be a bit dry, but this seems too strong a jolt to be static electricity.
it's that friggin electric sound when you adjust your screen's brightness. Not that the sound is loud or anything but it's so annoying. Even clean install of mac os didn't help.
And it's not the hard drive that's making the noise. It seems to be coming from top left corner. Blackbook is half a year old and it started to emit that friggin noise a month ago. So did anyone had the same or having the same problem and did anyone removed this god dammed irritating sound !
 I have Laptop " DELL Inspiron N5110", I am facing issue, it does not power up. I have to discharge its Static Charge while removing its Power Battery and Pressing its Power Button for 10 to 20 Seconds then Plug in Power Battery and turn Laptop ON.
I have sent this laptop to workshop for a permanent solution but could not find solution.
I get electric shocks when I use my laptop while charging. The shocks are felt only at the borders of the body and the base. And sometimes also on the stickers of windows, intel etc on the right side of my touchpad. The shocks are quite strong.
purple lines have started appearing on the monitor as any person who uses a laptop and constantly see a flicker of numerous purple horizontal lines would get annoyed so i decided to open it up and check the connectors which a friend had recommended me to have a look at though im no technician but i noticed it had a triangular shaped screw i couldnt open because of that so at the moment im clueless what these screws are called?
I realize that my webcam has tinted purple. i tried to look for any button to change the tint or maybe white balance, but there was none. it wasn't like this at the beginning.
My HP Pavilion g6-1207ev is appearing green and purple lines on the screen. It started out of the blue, they come ang go from time to time but when they appear they remain even after it shuts down or restart.
For some reason, all the hyperlinks are "PURPLE". Go to google and search for something, and the blue links are gone; they are now "PURPLE". All the links on this page are "PURPLE"! It is so annoying that I'm about to send this computer back. The yellows and greens are intense also.
Go to yahoo.com, and the red in the yahoo looks PINK.
I tried messing around with the color setting in the Nvidia control panel to no avail.
Messing with the contrast doesn't work. Also, I have some pdf files I transfered over from the other computer that I made. All the title for each section were done in a navy blue. Well, those titles on this computer are purple.
Don't get me wrong, I can still see the color blue in some things. The color blue in the "edit, quote, multi-quote, quick reply" on the bottom right of this box is the blue I'm used to having my hyperlinks at. It doesn't matter what web browser I use; it could be firefox, IE, chrome, safari, it just doesn't matter.
I saw this on the Sony site and wondered if anyone has this or knows of a bag similar? I would like to find one that is as slim as a carrying sleeve but with handles
I've been looking at the VGN-FW460J/T at Fry's Electronics and I would to know if this is a good notebook? I really don't care about the new i7's that are coming out, because I planning to get one sometime next year when they reach at a least 2.0GHz and at an affordable cost.
I am thinking about buying the Sony FW with 1080p. I was wondering if it is possible to hook up the FW to my PS3 via HDMI and play my PS3 games at 1080p on it
I lose about 5~10% of my battery life in a 12 hour period after shutting down my computer and unplugging it from the wall.
Anyone else experiencing something similar? No one else has brought it up for this new Z so I was wondering if I'm just a minority (granted the laptop is new and not many people have it yet)
I am in Shanghai and went to demo a new Vaio Z at a local SonyStyle store with a 3.06GHz CPU and Dual SSDs raided. The unit had Vista 64bit and 8GB of RAM... surprisingly though, no BluRay just a DVD Burner... go figure...
I tried to have someone explain to me if the design of the Z was changed because on my Z (model VGG-Z27GN) internally there is only space for one 2.5" drive (and nothing else really).
If the new Z's can accommodate 2 HDs inside, some major internal redesign had to be made. Does anyone know if this is the case or if maybe Sony is using some sort of two 1.8" Drives instead that they RAID together
I just got mine in the mail today. It says online that it's built in but I don't know how to access or find it (I got CTO without WWAN, and pro w/fresh start)?
I'm going to buy a FW-390 tomorrow morning and I want to know if the Full HD Screen is necessary or not.
I have heard that the X-Brite Eco's back lighting is uneven so some parts of the screen are dimmer than others which is simply unacceptable.
On the other hand I have heard complaints regarding the Full HD about the fonts being too small due to the resolution being too high on such a small screen ....
