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 Just Crashed!!! April 9, 2010
U. Mc Dermott Manrique (Costa Rica)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this Sony Vaio after having own othe Vaio laptops for a long time and being worry free. But with this one, after just six months of use, it just stop working. Took it to the local authorized Sony dealer and they told me the mother card was damaged and that the repair was going to cost almost the same as this laptop cost me. Since I Bought it from outside the US, I've been having trouble getting a second oppinion. Too bad for a product like this one.
 Beautiful machines February 21, 2010
lawks (Tulsa, OK)
These machines are great looking and compact. Somewhat slow with Vista and 2gig of ram but a lot of good features such as wifi, bluetooth and the screen is just plain awesome. The keyboard is a chiclet style which makes typing a bit easier and the mouse is the pointing stick. I use to like the pointing stick when IBM used them in their Thinkpads so it's no big deal to me. I like this unit much more than any netbook I've owned and I've owned a few. The price is somewhat steep if you pay retail but I bought mine for 435 bucks so I'm not disappointed in the price. For listening to music, watching video, checking email, contact book, writing occasional documents, cruising the in internet with a compact and pretty machine then you might like this unit. I love mine. You need good eyeballs because the print is very small but clear.
Problems since day one! November 16, 2009
M. Parrish (Chicago)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this computer in March 2009. First of all, it's over priced, you should get at least 120gb hard drive! Half the space is already gone before it's delivered to your door. The screen is pretty small, it's really hard to read at times, you can increase the screen size on Windows Explorer but that makes it hard to navigate through the pages. Secondly, I can never use it for an extended amount of time because it freezes. I have to shut it down and reboot ! I haven't loaded anything on it because there isn't room so I'm not taking up any space. It also crashes and reboots on its own, I'll get some kind of crazy blue screen. Also, regardless of where I am, when I'm using the internet, it decides to disconnect or give me a limited connectivity messages. Lastly and worst of all, the screen cracked! Not sure if the dog or one of the kids stepped on it but I opened the screen and it looks cracked with broken pixels. Called Sony, because I figured it would still be under warranty and was told it's not covered! Had the same thing happen with my Dell computer and they fixed it with no problem, no questions asked! Then, these people at Sony had the nerve to tell me that a new screen would cost around $600!!! That's over half of what I paid for this piece of garbage! Oh well, you live and learn. Don't buy anything because it's "CUTE". That's really the only reason I did. I guess I'll buy one of those $400 netbooks!
 The battery life kills this product October 8, 2009
Steven N. Vaughn
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The packaging is beautiful and the size is wonderful. The battery life is simply not good enough to make the product useful to me.
Booting the machine is painfully slow. It takes something like 5 minutes for a complete boot. If you want to tinker with registry and stuff maybe this could be reduced a bit.
What I want is a PC that acts like a cell phone: you open the cover and it is ready to go. 5 minute boot is not acceptable in that scenario.
You can avoid the boot by making the system sleep/hibernate when you close the lid. It takes less that a minute for it to wake up, and I could live with this, except the system consume significant energy when it is asleep. If I close the lid (and put the machine to sleep) on a full battery, it will not make it through the day asleep. If you use it for a half hour, you have reduced the sleep time quite a bit (a couple of hours).
I am sure Sony has a list of tips for extending battery life, but I don't want to become a laptop energy expert.
My guess is that people who give powerpoint presentations would love this, also people who fly a lot. It would be great for them because it is so small and light and the battery life wouldn't matter because in both these situations you could plug it in.
I'm curious if replacing the hard drive with a flash drive would help. Also, maybe a faster hard drive would make the boot quicker. Windows 7 might help. Maybe running Linux would help the boot time too.
I've toyed with getting the extended battery, but the thought of spending another $100 after the original $999 is not very attractive. I'm seriously wondering if I can find someone who would trade a Kindel DX for the Sony.
What a Smart Laptop, That right Lap/desk July 10, 2009
Brian Shahda (Richmopnd, VA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
What a device, This does everything, Alot reviews being- slow no way , just think it has a self motion camera- i just caught my father taking my candy from my desk. it also replace my cell phone, using my bluetooth earpiece, while i do not need to carry my nav. device, it built GPS in with no contracts, built in Verzion wireless card, no need add on to laptop, WAIT there MORE do you understand the weight, It slip into my kakis front pants, pocket. I also use this at home, i plug this tiny computer, to my 46' LCD T.V. , not saying there something wrong with it screen, it the crisp's, sharpest, screen, FOR A SMALL laptop. This amazing device need credit to it visions of taking the next step. Just add all the devices i explain, it will cost 40% and all those devices you have to carry,and worry about power cords, adapters. SONY IS THE ONE ONLY.
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