Who would buy a Sony laptop again?

[alanng]

well answers please? and why?

For me no because i do not trust their quality checks, i think they try and rush out the latest fashion craze and then get on with designing the next.

Their driver downloads/documentation are dismal to say the least

[Ling]

Owning a Vaio is diffrent from owning a Notebook. Notebooks are generally made for one purpose - to work abroad - no fancy stuff or hardly any. The Vaios give the customer more, AV, excellent design, good performance and just to be complete here, recognition and status. A slim silver Vaio beats a Toshiba or Dell in Coolness any day, hands down.

I disagree with everything except the style - by A/V do you mean firewire port / outputs available with port replicator? Lots of other laptops have these features. Excellent design can be said of an awful lot of laptops, and good performance is a no brainer - Sony's don't perform any better than other similarly priced laptops. I still agree on the style, however I quite like the look of the more recent Toshibas.

[iainjturner]

Centrino is not actually the CPU, it's a culmination of the CPU, chipset and Wi-Fi card. If the laptop doesn't have a Wi-Fi card then it can't be called a Centrino. The Centrino powered laptops have Pentium-m processors.

[kee-lo_]

Ah I thought there was something like that. If it doesn't have wireless then its not Centrino.

[iainjturner]

My Toshiba Satellite was a great performer and not a bad looker, however, the casing was impractical since it was made of shiney plastic. This meant that it showed every scratch and fingerprint, which quickly made the laptop look messy.

[m0dcm]

Hi Guy's,

I love my Sony Vaio PCG-FX805, I knoq it's not got a lot of vid ram, but it's perfect for what I use it for. Visual Basic Programming, Amateur Radio, Video Conferencing... need I say more.

I agree with the fact that Sony spares are expensive, but for the RAM there's alway Crucial!!

What I would really like in this Laptop is a larger HDD so I could store more home video footage for editing.

Dave....

Laptop : PCG-FX-805 - 1.6GHz AMD Athlon XP, 256Mbytes Ram - 30Gig HDD

[iainjturner]

I think in the FX series you can upgrade the hard disk yourself. Otherwise, try finding an external USB/Firewire/PC Card hard disk that you can use to store items.

[LeonX]

Even if my vaio is still covered by the 1-year-guarantee, I'm very disappointed by the vaio link support. I dont wanna talk for hours to some call center guy that says: "Oops, Im gonna talk to a technician" and calls back 2 days later and doesnt even seem to have understood what my problem was or what the technician said. I dont wanna pay 20 euros to use the hotline when my one year coverage has gone. ("If your Vaio is older than 1 year, please note that every call costs 20 euros" - Vaio Link, Germany) THIS IS RIDICULOUS. And no, I never got a Vaio that was running out of the box (even if this is my third one!). So after those experiences: Yes I would buy a Vaio again, but only if support gets better!

[kee-lo_]

The worst thing is when the call centre people get in a loop, tell you the same thing 20 times in sucession. Makes me want to grab hold of them by the collar and shake them "I KNOW".

Hehe, I think I need some Yoga

[LeonX]

When I bought my current Vaio Z1SP at Sony Style Store in Berlin, I got one one with a slight damage. I could convince them to exchange it for me instead of making Vaio Link exchange it. My argument that Vaio Link is incredibly bad did even convice the employees there. Any questions?

[esnw33430]

I can truly say i will never buy a sony laptop again!, In the 12 months i've had my vaio i had nothing but problems. Sure the vaio does look cool but thats where the good points end, The support is terrible and getting parts is a nightmare.

so far the parts that have been replaced due to failure are as follows:

1, Mainboard
2, power supply (the one on the mainboard not the plug in one)
3, It was returned desplaying a fault with the nic card but sony insist the unit is fine (refuses to connect to any network or highspeed cable modem @100meg but works ok @10 meg)
4, keyboard failed, sony fixed it but whe they returned the unit a stick of memory had died.

I will son trade the heap for a lush new toshiba or samsung