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Advantages: Space-conscious design, easy plug-and-play setup, inbuilt webcam and microphone
Disadvantages: Tends to consume a lot of batteries with the keyboard and mouse.

I initially decided to purchase this computer as a basic gaming PC for my when I go on holiday in the UK. It takes up a reasonably small amount of desk space. The wireless keyboard and mouse tend to require hefty amounts of batteries, but this downside can be ignored due to the space saved without needing wires curling like a spaghetti junction around your workspace. The mouse and keyboard themselves are aesthetically pleasing, with the mouse having ...
...responsive keys. It looks sleek and stylish, with a widescreen, flat monitor with a fully functioning integrated VGA camera and microphone just above the screen. The monitor is exceptionally bright and crisp, the instruction manual stating that it uses X-Black technology. Further research revealed to me that X-Black is essentially an electronic display with an anti-reflective coating designed to reduce glare. This is extremely effective as I am ... Read review

Advantages: More than just a PC
Disadvantages: The screen could be a little bigger

...different. To describe the Sony M-1 is kind of difficult it has an LCD screen that is fixed to the base unit; also attached to that base unit is a flop down keyboard, two very good speakers and a sub woofer. Fold the keyboard flat against the screen and you have a unit roughly 1 and ½ foot long by 7 inches deep. When I first switched the PC on it went through the usual set up format that you go through with any windows operated PC. Once installed, ...
...screen, its fitted with the Sony X BLACK style screen, this makes dark colours look amazing, in fact everything looks great on it. The room that I have my PC in is frequently filled with sunlight and the screen seldom gets to the stage that I cannot see it. The mouse is an optical one, so I can run it across almost anything. It responds a lot better than a standard mouse, a subject of consistent annoyance to me. Yes two years on and the mouse is ... Read review

Advantages: great PC design
Disadvantages: you cant get hold of spare parts

This may apply to other sony vaio computers. I was very happy with my vaio until the power supply broke. We were outside the guarantee and were shocked to discover that if you dont have a warrenty you just cant get hold of spares. Its a bit like some car manufacturers - The spares needed are of a different size to other machines and when you try and order the part direct from sony you are told that they will not supply it if you are not under ...
...over, but even then the sony soundcard would not fit so we had to get a new soundcard too. If Id known how much trouble it was going to be i would of just bined it and bought a new desktop. It wasnt cheep to buy and was good while it lasted, but if you decide to buy a vaio make sure you are willing to commit to a long term warrenty agreement or you could find yourself in the same fix. ... Read review

Advantages: Fast, loads of storage, superb looking design
Disadvantages: Expensive

...I purchased this new Sony Vaio PCV RS122 in October of 2003. Before I got it, I had a Packard Bell. It was an older model with a 6 gb harddrive and about 96 MB ram, just to familiarise you with what I was coming from and for you to realise how impressed I was with the spec of this new machine from Sony. I made my purchase as part of a package and had it home within hours. To start with I'll give a quick introduction to the specification. Its a 2.4Ghz ...
...on DVD for instance. Sony did this as a means of clamping down on illegal copying, you can copy CDs but not DVDs as the same drive that is used to play DVDs is the same one that rewrites them so its virtually impossible! One option is to save a DVD onto the harddrive and then write it onto another disc however this wastes time and can take up a lot of your harddrive capacity. The computer has 4 USB ports, which is adequte for a printer, scanner and ... Read review

Advantages: endless
Disadvantages: price and also not future proof

Excellent, I've owned my sony vaio rs144 for 7 years and its an amazing machine still. my experiences have been excellent all through, the standard speakers were satisfactory when i first aquired the pc but over time they broke through use and as i got older i wanted better speakers anyway, the graphics card is a little old but can play far cry and half life games really well. i now have more ram the installed ram from purchase is 256mb but i now ...
...still have the original mouse and it still works although i havent used it for a few months since bought another new mouse because i dont find the old one all that comfortable, but i used it for the most time ive owned the pc and it was fine and still is. i still use the same montior i have always used this monitor it works great runs at 60hz i use my pc alot my eyes dont really strain from using it even for up to 6 hours or so it always looks great. ... Read review