Sony Vaio, are they good?

[Jo21]

NJ5 said:

Infamy79 said:

Jo21 said:

NJ5 said:

No, go for one of the established laptop brands (whichever). They're cheaper and certainly not worse in terms of quality (probably better).

Sony can't even make good batteries, let alone the whole laptop. Don't let the "Sony = quality" mantra fool you in this case.

 

all major brands companies recall batteries to that includes those made by panasonic and toshiba.

and vaio are quite decent notebooks materials and LCD are at least a step head apple.

(cheap white plastic) unless buy a very expensive aluminium macbook pro.

I'm with NJ5 on this, all the manufacturers had to recall the Sony batteries in their products

As for the cheap white plastic mac books, all mac books are now aluminium

 

For accuracy's sake, I searched again and found a report of 6000 non-Sony batteries getting recalled. Still, that's nothing compared to the millions of recalled Sony batteries:

http://news.cnet.com/Panasonic-joins-notebook-battery-recall/2100-1041_3-6112395.html

 

so? i am just saying recalls did happen,  it was a major outbreak with almost all notebook brands sony and panasonic.

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml03/03113.html <-- not notebooks but dangerous batteries get recalled all the time.

the good news there were few very few problems that was corrected and handled for free, it not something to trash sony like it was the only problem. even if they are one of the biggest supplier of notebook batteries and if you have a notebook more like you are using a sony battery now.

microsoft xbox power source burned a house and only release a power cable that prevent ignition.

so you are not getting  a 360 due that?

@infamy : well we got a cracked macbook 13'3 that apple refused to fix due being out of warranty. and we had to pay to get it fixed.