Sony Warns Against Upgrading To Windows 10

I haven't seen any newer laptops.. From how slow I have seen Viao laptops run their stock software I wouldn't really suggest upgrading to anything new either. Their laptops were shit back then... just imagine..
 
Oh, this would be the same Sony where I have a customer's Vista laptop sitting in front of me right now.

Sony couldn't even be bothered to release SIGNED DRIVERS for THEIR OWN DRIVERS at any point from 2009 to now for this thing when Vista 64 started requiring driver signature.

End result? I'm having to reinstall this thing again, for a second time, and am STUCK using 32bit Vista because I can't get a complete driver set for it any other way... even though it SHIPPED with Vista 64bit.

Yeah, you mean THAT Sony?
 
I aint scared.

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kinda sad that they didn't start working on this 8 or 9 months ago.
 
They need time to update their rootkits to be compatible with Windows 10.
 
"We need time to update our fluff software to work on Windows 10"

Guess that was missing from that statement from Sony. :D
 
I had an ASUS tablet that was all hunky dory for upgrading until today. Suddenly the video driver is not compatible.
 
ZLoth said:
Seriously? Would anyone [H]ard actually have a Sony laptop?
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Sony was popular in the business world back when it was the thing since they were one of the first to come out with small and thin units.
 
ZLoth said:
Seriously? Would anyone [H]ard actually have a Sony laptop?
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Because I got free from work?

This is funny.....I opted in, but hadn't gotten around to imaging the rig, so I last minute opted out. Good thing I guess.
 
jpm100 said:
I had an ASUS tablet that was all hunky dory for upgrading until today. Suddenly the video driver is not compatible.
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Which Asus tablet? I just upgraded a VivoTab Note 8 and everything went well except the cameras are working.
 
My HP DV7 is also in the same boat. All hardware works, even the fingerprint scanner, but there are no Display Drivers available, so video playback stutters.
 
Imaged my VAIO S last week. I'll give win 10 a spin on it and see if their own utility software works. Driver wise, they will work well I suspect. Worst case scenario, I restore back to a win8.1 image and upgrade at a later date.

As for them being shit, meh. Too subjective. There are too many shitty laptops out there from all of the major players. Sony was by no means the worst - at least from the two specific S & Z models I've had.
 
rpeters1969 said:
Their phones are dogshit as well, and very poorly supported. I'll never purchase another piece of Sony hardware again ...
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Lol, My Z2 got the Lollipop update fast enough and overall the phone has been the MOST trouble free phone I have ever bought.
 
dyzophoria said:
may vaio pro 13 is running win 10 quite smoothly to be honest.. so no sony just no :)
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You win a gold star for finding the only model that work with Windows 10 !

Sony is the worse. I have a sr. manager at the office who loves Sony products, and always insisted on Sony laptops (which he went out and bought himself) instead of the Dell products everyone else uses.

Nothing but trouble, drivers suck, and don't even try upgrading since they almost never provide drivers for newer OS's. I'm glad Sony stopped making laptops, because he finally settled for a Dell :)
 
messerchmidt said:
this is why no one buys sony products; you are always made a damn fool of if you do..
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Every Sony computer I've seen has sucked. From the early models with non standard drives, to the poor driver support on the newer models.

However, I've been happy with the Sony TV I bought years ago, but that's the only Sony product I own.
 
///AMG said:
Lol, My Z2 got the Lollipop update fast enough and overall the phone has been the MOST trouble free phone I have ever bought.
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Was thinking the same thing with my original Z, Z1 and Z3. Apart from the poor battery life on the original Z, I've had nothing but a near perfect user experience. Samdung on the other hand, a true POS.
 
Matthew Kane said:
Was thinking the same thing with my original Z, Z1 and Z3. Apart from the poor battery life on the original Z, I've had nothing but a near perfect user experience. Samdung on the other hand, a true POS.
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You too? I swore off Samsung after my Note 3 again like my Galaxy Nexus, Note 2 and 1, Galaxy S, 2, 3, 4 all took a shit after 6 months and almost always had something not working. Literally every one of the batteries had probably less than 50% of the original capacity after 6 months. Rooted most of them except the Note 3 had extended OEM batteries for most of them, kept them really clean, didnt play games pretty much at all on them and they all took a nose dive in battery life. A lot of my Samsung phones had really bad GPS, non working Wi-Fi, non working USB ports. But I accepted because I would switch around 6-9 months anyways and I wanted to be on the bleeding edge. But my Z2? Not a damn problem, great battery life even 11 months in and I worked it harder than anyone of my Samsung phones for 9 of those months. Took it with me to the pool when I do my laps, used it to film in the water, took it biking and its still as good as the day I got it. I used to run my Moto 360 all day and stream music from my bluetooth head set 6hrs a day and still get home with more than 35% left. I get consistently 4hrs of Screen on time with it, after 6 months and even after a clean wipe my Note 3 got 2hrs.

Sorry for my rant, its just I feel like the Xperia Z series is criminally underrated for the build quality, battery life, and overall usability compared to all the other phones and Sony still solidly supports the Z series and everyone still shits on them while most people have never seen or touched the Z series. I wish more people gave Sony a try given how amazing the Z2 has been to me. I feel like buying the Z3 right now to replace my Z2 to support Sony.
 
Advil said:
Oh, this would be the same Sony where I have a customer's Vista laptop sitting in front of me right now.

Sony couldn't even be bothered to release SIGNED DRIVERS for THEIR OWN DRIVERS at any point from 2009 to now for this thing when Vista 64 started requiring driver signature.

End result? I'm having to reinstall this thing again, for a second time, and am STUCK using 32bit Vista because I can't get a complete driver set for it any other way... even though it SHIPPED with Vista 64bit.

Yeah, you mean THAT Sony?
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In case you didn't know, you can sign your own driver. Create cert locally, add to trusted root store, sign driver, install. I wrote instructions on a bitcoin forum a while ago.
 
heatlesssun said:
Which Asus tablet? I just upgraded a VivoTab Note 8 and everything went well except the cameras are working.
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Vivotab Smart. I've done a restore and I think ASUS Liveupdate worked when I first got it but broke on their end a while ago. I'll have to see if there's anything to manually download.
 
///AMG said:
You too? I swore off Samsung after my Note 3 again like my Galaxy Nexus, Note 2 and 1, Galaxy S, 2, 3, 4 all took a shit after 6 months and almost always had something not working.
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They literally break down for me at least after a few months. If it's not the phone constantly freezing or the screen digitiser not working with touches on specific areas of the screen.

Annoying.
 
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