popped into my local sony store yesterday. was interested in buying a 1gb sony mem stick for booting a live linux o/s from.
asked the fellow behind the counter if the s5xp supports this. as he was unsure he phoned customer support who told him to go away or ring a premium rate number as the laptop is over a year old. he understandably didn't want to do the latter.
does anyone know if i can boot from the flash drive???
if yes i will buy a lexar card rather than put any more dosh in the sony coffers.
sorry- grumpy 'cause i assumed that the premium price i paid for the s5xp was to cover style and customer support- silly me- o well back to hp when upgrade time comes along.
Still, have to state that this is disgusting service It's like another meaning of that message they say about dogs... " A Sony is for Christmas NOT for life"
I'd have kicked a fuss and made sure he either rang the premium number (not yours or his problem) or pointed you into the right direction.
thanks Thalamus- saved me wasting money on a memory stick that would have probably been to high capacity to even use in my old net walkman.- cant face the idea of contacting the net walkman customer services to find out what the max supported capacity is.
still- extremely disappointed by sony customer services- reminds me why i stopped buying their phones.
wrt new laptops, i know that Dell have improved recently- always been happy with hp- toshiba and acer are as bad as sony seem to be- any suggestions????
