Anyone know when sony is going to have the vaio ar370

[jakesully]

on stock for buy? Thanks. much apprieciated.

[dadkins]

Originally Posted by jakesully

on stock for buy? Thanks. much apprieciated.

Don't even see it at Sony Style any more.
A friend has the AR370CTO - work bought it for him.

Sony only has the AR5xx series listed at Sony Style:
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/...tegoryId=16154

Shop around, you might find an online retailer that has one/some 370(s).

[Uxi]

Has Sony stopped doing normal desktop VAIOS? I was almost ready to buy that last Blu-ray one and now it's gone everywhere, of course. And a 4x or 6x Blu-ray burner for BD50 would be nice...

[msallaq]

i bought the last vaio vgc-rc310g with blu ray drive from BB 6 months ago i love it.

[dadkins]

Originally Posted by Uxi

Has Sony stopped doing normal desktop VAIOS? I was almost ready to buy that last Blu-ray one and now it's gone everywhere, of course. And a 4x or 6x Blu-ray burner for BD50 would be nice...

Pretty much...

This is what's new:
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/...tegoryId=16155

[takezo]

Originally Posted by Uxi

Has Sony stopped doing normal desktop VAIOS? I was almost ready to buy that last Blu-ray one and now it's gone everywhere, of course. And a 4x or 6x Blu-ray burner for BD50 would be nice...

That's a good thing for Sony and Blu-ray. Almost ready is not ready. There are a lot of impulse shoppers, they grab anything at a moments notice.

A got an old Vaio. It came with 2.2Ghz P4, 512MB ram, 80GB HDD, a CDRW, and DVD-ROM drive. The specs were prety good back in 2002 when purchased and it was very well priced. I upgraded ram to 768MB.

I build all my own PC's now.

[Uxi]

I do a mixture of buy my own and build, and have for at least 10 years, depending on what's en vogue, cutting edge, etc. I always stay away from bleeding edge because it's too darned expensive to depreciate that fast. Kinda like Toshiba HDDVD players.

Just built a new gaming rig on the Frys deal (E6750 with ECS mobo for $218), popped in 4GB of 1066DDR2 and a 640MB 8800GTS and all is good. Total cost out of pocket less than $750 for a damned good machine.

Machine before that was a VAIO i bought in 2003. 3.4Ghz northwood (P4 HT), came with 1.0GB of DDRPC3200. I upped it to 2GB and replaced the FX5200 with a 6800GT that had me kicking butt on BF2 at 1920 x 1200 with max settings. With only that RAM & GPU upgrade, I was suprised that I got a good 4 years of gaming out of that thing with great performance, so would definitely buy another VAIO desktop with a Blu-ray burner.

The only thing I didn't like about that was the Non ATX proprietary power supply Sony used. I was still able to shoehorn another one in there, though. I loved the modular nature of the Sony case, even if it wasn't the best at handling heat.

Computer before that was a custom built Athlon XP
Before that was a store bought Athlon 900.

etc etc.

[jakesully]

bump....
I did some searching but only found some ar370 that had an rewritable burner....something i clearly don't need.

[dadkins]

Originally Posted by jakesully

bump....
I did some searching but only found some ar370 that had an rewritable burner....something i clearly don't need.

Was it a Blu-ray burner?
Let me see if I can get my friend's exact model for you(it is an AR370 CTO I believe).
His has the Blu-ray burner drive like mine.

EDIT: Does this link open for you?

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/...52921665061591

Spec PDF for VGN-AR370 CTO:

http://www.iq.sony.com/srvs/DocsConn...100205&DL=true

[T-Town Oil]

i saw something today on overstock.com...type in blu-ray for your search and it had some vaio for around 2600. not sure if its what you want

[w_tanoto]

Originally Posted by jakesully

on stock for buy? Thanks. much apprieciated.

it's out of date. don't even bother to get it. Get VAIO AR57. In UK, the latest is the 4 series, with AR-41S. They announced AR51