Hey guys/gals,

Hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday. For me, after waiting for over a year, I finally pulled the trigger and bought a new computer with MOI in mind. I was originally planning on getting a Surface Pro 2, but decided that it was not quite what I wanted. What did I get? I got a Sony Vaio Flip 15A. If you're not familiar with the Vaio Flip, here's a link:

http://store.sony.com/vaio-flip-15/cat-27-catid-All-15-Ultrabook-Flip

I chose this machine specifically because it has the closest I have seen to the perfect combination for mobility and modeling:

1) Hybrid converts from standard laptop to tablet form factor quite easily and quickly.
2) High performance hardware: 4th gen Core i7 (albeit not a quad core), 8 gb ram (expandable to 16), 1 TB hybrid hard drive SSHD, 2gb discrete NVidia 735m graphics chip.
3) Decent battery life (!). The Haswell really gives me some good battery times. Nice job Intel.
3) Active stylus suppport and a relatively large (15.6") Full HD (1080x1920) 10 point touchscreen (IPS display. beautiful). While the stylus isn't Wacom, it is pressure sensitive, and it is decent (2nd generation is apparently much improved over previous generation).

While there is a higher end model (with a Super HD screen), I decided to go with this model because it was (just barely) within my budget ($1250). Still, I feel like the machine will keep me happy for quite a while...

Unfortunately, I have not had enough time to install MOI on the machine (still in the process of transferring a LOT of stuff from my old laptop to the new machine) so I can't show any nice screenshots or video (I'm new to MOI anyway, so it wouldn't be that impressive anyway). But I'll try to report on things as I can...

I just wanted to share my glee at having a new machine to play with... :)

Chaster

Hi Chaster, it sounds like a really nice machine!

It would be great to hear your impression of how it runs MoI once you've had a chance to install it there and use it a bit.

Thanks and happy holidays!

- Michael

I Eric,

That is a nice machine you got there.

I got myself a Sony Ultrabook, only laptop.

I got a i7 (not quad core) with 8 gig of ram and intel HD4000 for graphic.

Still ana amazing piece of hardware.

I like the Sony models, well made and look very solid.

Denis, this is my first Sony, and so far, I'm satisfied... with some caveats.

The main issues I had was out-of-the-box bugginess. There were a LOT of problems with the machine when first turned on - particularly with USB ports, sound volume after sleeping, and the auto-dimming backlight display. Luckily, after a LOT of update downloads from Sony, most of the issues seem to have been resolved. The autodimming is still kind of schizophrenic, but I was able to disable it as desired. Now the machine is pretty well sorted out (although I'm still getting used to finding all the "power user" functions in Windows 8... wish M$ didn't have the habit of trying to hide everything from the user..) Did you have similar issues with your Sony?

Michael, just curious - is there any consideration of doing a Metro, er, "Modern UI" version of MOI? I'm assuming probably not, but just wanted to ask. I'm fine using the "standard" desktop software, but it would be cool to have a Metro version which was touch/stylus optimized and I can think of at least one compelling reason to do a Metro version....

Cheers,

Eric
p.s. Happy New Year everyone!

Hi Eric,

> Michael, just curious - is there any consideration of doing a Metro, er, "Modern UI"
> version of MOI? I'm assuming probably not, but just wanted to ask. I'm fine using
> the "standard" desktop software, but it would be cool to have a Metro version which
> was touch/stylus optimized and I can think of at least one compelling reason to do
> a Metro version....

No, unfortunately producing something for Metro would involve a major rewrite of a whole lot of stuff, it's a pretty different system.

I'm not sure that it's even possible to do a high data capacity application in it, it has some various limits like a program must be able to save everything and exit within 3 seconds or be forcibly terminated... Things like that seem to me to limit the system to more lightweight things like games and stuff like that.

So as things currently stand I do not have any plans to produce a Metro version of MoI.

- Michael

Yes I did have some issues with it at first but not that many.

I still have the brightness bug that sometime work and sometime not but i'm ok with it.

AS for touch, Michael already had some stuff done with touch and moi, like use 3 fingers to rotate your view in 3D view and some others, you can check the option for that if I remember.