Sony Vaio Z and Windows 10

Seems like Sony Vaio Z - sony's premier line of laptops will not get Windows 10 driver updates which is absolutely ridiculous.  Sony should be taking care of customers who buy their top of the line products.  My laptop is not even 3 years old yet. Especially the video drivers for the docking station should be updated.

Hi I just would like to share my experience updating my machine to Windows 10 Pro from Win 7. Model name is SVZ1311CHXXI. Before updating online, I used Sony's driver site and applied the latest drivers on Win 8 or Win 8.1. That should have a high chance of compatibility. The online upgrade was seamless and quick. After completed the whole process, I checked and found the following points. 1) Fn Key: Volume, brightness, and zoom ---- works2) White button: Assist, web, vaio --- work 3) Dock --- Disk USB and video work. Used bit locker for a USB stick which works seamlessly. 4) Memory card slots --- work5) Fingerprint sensor --- Initially did not work but after setup on Win 10 it works when logging in.6) Touchpad --- No problem7) Graphics driver --- This is a tricky part. As this model uses two graphics drivers simultaneously, Intel's HD 4000 has a driver of 10.18.10.4252 as of July 10, 2015. AMD HD 6700M has a driver of 15.200.1046.2 as of July 15, 2015. So it looks they have the best driver but presumably because of the Sony's customized setting, the graphic experience is not perfect. (But it works. Otherwise, I cannot write this.) The issue can be observed from old software programs on x86. Video rendering and resolution scaling is not optimized so that you can see blurred menu bars on the top or fuzzy fonts on it. But you can operate it. Not all programs are experiencing this issue. I suspect relatively dated x86 ones are more likely to get this. It did not happen my other Win 10 PC that uses the same program. There is something that needs to be done by Sony to solve this video driver issue as they chose to provide this hybrid architecture that was the premium paid by users. 8) Sound --- No problem. Noise canceling headphones work as well. 9) Hard disk configurations --- The same and no issues.So that is about it. I would say compared to my previous experience upgrading old VAIO Z with Nvidia hybrid from Vista to Win 7 64, this is much seamless although a new Win 10 video driver needs to be delivered by Sony. Wish my experience helps and more strongly wish Sony guys could use my experience to respond to it and offer the updated drivers the users would like to have ASAP.     

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