| Infamy79 said: As someone who works in IT I certainly wouldn't recommend one. They look good but lack substance and their support is terrible. I had one with a power management issue where you'd plug the power in and the screen would go dark, unplug the power and it would light up again. Reformatted the system, same problem. Called Sony, after 3 weeks of saying they'd look into it said they didn't know what it was and couldn't help. If you really want one make sure you upgrade the warranty. Personally I'd stick with Lenovo, Toshiba, HP or Dell. Focus on brands who build PCs as their primary business, not a general electrics company. |
Old piccy here.. but I can't find old pics of my laptop except a pic of my old gaming rig with the laptop box on the right.. Laptop is sitting at nieces now gathering dust....
I bought a VAIO laptop a looong time ago I think it was christmas 2004 well its lasted 4 years cause I loaned this out to my neices (homework assignments, internet surfing, facebook, MSN etc) but it died during 2008. Anyway I think the motherboard has fried and Sony have qouted it could cost upto £200 to fix it (which is probably about $300 USD.
To be honest their systems are alright and I can't complain if you want to buy one.. go ahead... but I know for what I paid for mine.. you pay for the name and design. you can get better specs for cheaper from other places. Mine costed me £900 back in 2004 which was about $1800 USD then. and it came with.. I think.. 13" screen 1GB ram, 80GB hard drive and intel centrino CPU.
When I had it in my possession I was just using it a few hours a week and the laptop got very hot. I decided to give it to my nieces to use around christmas 2007 since they needed to have pc for coursework and when they finally got their own internet connection up they were using the laptop a lot for torrents and internet stuff. So the laptop probably died from overheating
