Just bought a FS-295XP, and it's great. The hardware is fantastic.
Shame the software is such a major letdown. Upon booting up, I find a system tray that takes up 50% of the screen width, as so much crap s pre-installed. Crap that I don't want, trial versions of Nortons crappy NIS, Trial versions of MS office, Mulltiple IE tootbars (Yahoo and Google), Yahoo IM, BT Broadband, plus all the useless Sony crap they preload.
Whilst I apprecate some people may want some of this, I doubt anyone wants this much crap!
The worst bit however, is there is no XP disk, I am expected to make recovery DVD's from the files on the HDD, and the recovery partition includes all the crap. There is no way to get rid of it (needless to say, as usual, Norton uninstall does not work).
My brand new laptop, I have to borrow a XP Pro disk from my employer (using my licence stuck on the bottom of the laptop), I eventually, after 4 hours. get my laptop to a useable state, XPSP2, with no crud.
Sony, why ruin perfectly good hardware with loading this substandard rubbish? How much does not providing a XP Pro media save? 50p on a £1000 laptop?
Hardware =fantastic
Software= apalling.
