Good Vaio for Money (Get it?!)

Advantages: Decent spec., nice ergonomic design and feel to it, nice size, good value for money
Disadvantages: Touch pad and buttons a bit too close, the fn keys slightly dodgy (see review)

.... Read on for more information about it.... - Basic Spec. Stats. - Ok so what do you get with this laptop? well it is one of, if not *the*, cheapest Vaio on the market, so clearly its not exactly the most highly powered, or feature packed, unit out there but considering the price and what I need, I find it suits me fine. Here's the basic specification information, for anyone interested... - OS (Operating System) Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit. It also comes with the service pack 1 pre-installed, which saves you a bit of time as you don't have to install that before using it. With the Home Premium version of Vista, you get the Windows Media Center, which can be fun for scrolling through and selecting your favourite music and video files, though it is all patter really I suppose... like the 3D tiling, something that looks...

IzzyS 19.10.2008 (14.11.2008) · Read review
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Review of Sony Vaio VGN-NR38M

sony vaio AR88E

Advantages: massive screen
Disadvantages: large.

...This laptop is the Sony VAIO AR88E. The laptop is made mainly for gaming, watching movies on and various other entertainment needs whilst not compromising the ability to do serious work on these as well. One thing that is compromised though is the portability, entertainment laptops are made to keep at home and not really to carry about with you all the time, so whilst the specification may look good, don?t expect one of these to be very portable. Its mainly black in colour however I like the design ho the screen top part comes over the bottom part of the laptop base slightly so that it gives a more cooler look to the laptop. The installed ram on this laptop is great, it has a massive 2gb which is the main reason this laptop runs so fast, also its intel core 2 duo T7700 which is one of the newest processors makes this laptop run so...

techno_man_37 20.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sony Vaio VGN-AR88E

My Sony VAIO

Advantages: Quality Looking, Very Stylish, Great Speed!
Disadvantages: -

...Product: 15.4" screen Laptop Make: Sony, VAIO Features: XP, Service pack 2 Price: Varied This Sony VAIO Laptop is stylish, powerful, fast active, and easy to use, this laptop is exactly like the one I own. Mine is Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition with service packed 2, it has a 15.4" WXGA (1280x800) X-black LCD flat screen, and runs on 512MB DDR2 SDRAM (533 MHz). Even though, it's Windows XP, Its Vista capable as well; some of them I've seen are though. I can always rely on the Sony make; to me it has always been a top brand. I love the Intel Celeron M Processor 390; the processing speed is 1.70 GHz, which is the ideal speed for me. The hard disk drive is 80GB, which is quite suitable for the size. The Intel Graphics feature Media Accelerator 900 and comes with 128MB max, the graphics are outstandingly great, this is...

GavinWRogers 25.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sony Vaio VGN-FS515E

VAIO BZ12VN

Advantages: pretty decent laptop
Disadvantages: quite expensive

...This Sony VAIO BZ12VN is another new laptop from sony. Its one of their full sized laptops rather than the smaller notebooks that they have been bringing out and seemingly concentrating no recently. The installed ram on this laptop is a massive 4gb, meaning its not just fast, its extremely fast. Loading up and running even the most demanding programs seem a breeze. Also above average is the amount of hard drive that this laptop has. It has a fantastic 320gb of storage space for all those media needs and data needs too. This amount of space is well more than enough for me and should be enough for nearly everyone too as it is quite a spacious hard drive. The laptop also has a quite nice 15.4 inch TFT screen, this is the average size for laptop screens, it might make the laptop a little bigger, and therefore less portable but it...

techno_man_37 09.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sony VAIO BZ Series VGN-BZ12VN

Sleek and Stylish Sony Vaio

Advantages: Great price for a Sony, Highly aesthetically pleasing
Disadvantages: Gets dirty extremely easily

...I have always wanted a Sony Vaio laptop; as far as I?m concerned, there is no laptop out there that comes anywhere close to being as aesthetically pleasing and stylish as the Vaio. In white, the Sony Vaio is by far the most attractive laptop on the market, and when I saw this moderately priced white Sony Vaio sitting there for the taking, I knew that it was something that I just had to own. Macbook?s are similarly styled, however I have always preferred the Windows operating system so for me, a Macbook was not a viable option. In the past, Sony have always priced themselves a bit out of the market by marking up their laptops at a higher cost than similar specification machines, however the VGN-N230 breaks with this tradition and has brought Sony well and truly into the budget laptop market which is great to see...

RazzaLazza 20.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Sony Vaio VGN-N230

Sony VAIO

Advantages: LONG BATTERY LIFE AND GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY.
Disadvantages: : NO GRAPHIC CARD.

...for money and would be recommended to friends and other people closer to me. Like I commented on the battery life, unlike most laptops that has the maximum battery life of 2 hours, the Sony VAIO has a battery life of 3 hours. It also has good connectivity like the 4X USB 2.0 and 1 fire wire connection. But the problem I have with it is that it does not standalone graphic card. So go get yours....

packerlist 21.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Sony Vaio VGN-NR21J/S

A True Classic... The Embodiment of the VAIO Ethos

Advantages: Ultra portable but usable, long battery life, video editing features, very stylish
Disadvantages: Some reliability issues, slower than an equivalent Intel machine

...Why You Want One Although now a true antique in computing terms, the C1MHP was (and is) quite a marvel and is very collectable these days... A rarity in a product field where laptops are generally worthless after a couple of years. One of the last of the C1 series of VAIO notebooks, it was the pinnacle of the VAIO (Video Audio Input Output) ethos. As we'll see the truth didn't quite live up to the dream but the designers of this baby computer almost made it come true. Looks The C1 series and the C1MHP are, even by today's standards, simply stunning to look at. If you saw one on a shelf in PC World today you'd still fall in love with it. In fact it's probably coming back into vogue after spending those years in the wilderness where ever bigger "desktop" laptops were the rage. But in this new age of the minute netbooks (the...

buyer991 16.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sony VAIO C1MHP

fantastic laptop from the vaio range.

Advantages: fast, looks good.
Disadvantages: could have more storage space, but for me its fine.

...This Sony VAIO BX51VN / BX51XP is yet another laptop from the Sony vaio range, and also another fantastic laptop from this range. It takes the newest of technology, and the brand new designs from Sony, and puts it all into one laptop which functions just as good as it looks. One thing this laptop is great for, is defiantly media needs, its great for loading all your music onto and even has a built in speaker to play music out of. Its also great for watching movies on and playing games on, this is due to its Intel GMA X3100 video card which helps it in running the newest of games, and even the future games. There is also windows media player pre installed and a lot of video software like: roxio easy media creator 9, Sony click to DVD, win DVD and Sony sonic stage mastering studio 2.4. This laptop also comes with a couple...

techno_man_37 03.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Sony VAIO BX51VN / BX51XP

Converted to Sony Vaio

Advantages: Battery life, build quality, feels like a desktop pc
Disadvantages: Price

...This is my first Sony laptop, I am a happy man... I've had a Dell, Toshiba and an HP laptop all in the past 4 years or so, each developed faults or just became to slow to run the most basic of task's. We all know Laptops can not compare to desktop equivalents with even the most primary of tasking, this new Sony offering breaks that rule. The thing that first drew to me to the laptop was not only the Sony Vaio brand but it was also the design, its sexy! - Brushed silver effect and very thin. It's light and the screen is stunning, yes the thing you stare at 98% of the time this is powered up, something that most laptop manufacturers seem to not acknowledge, it is in fact very clear and bright. The keyboard layout seems a little strange upon first viewing, especially if you are used to most other brands. It is this minor redesign...

NHilton24 23.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sony VAIO SR19VN

  Sony Vaio the way to go!

Advantages: Sharp screen image, high overall performance, great looks
Disadvantages: Continuous running of the fan

...are going to use the notebook. If you are using it at home and quite frequently, touch pads can become quite tedious and so the addition of a mouse can combat this. The GRT816S also boasts a 16.1? Onyx TFT screen which Sony insisted was the sharpest screen available on a notebook at the time of production. I have to back this up completely, before I bought my Sony Vaio I shopped around quite a lot trying out many different notebooks in loads of different stores. I can honestly say that the screen on the GRT816S is by the far the sharpest image I have seen on a notebook screen. With my previous notebook the image was fairly sharp if you looked at it straight on but as you started to move around the screen the image started to blur and fade out (as with most notebook TFT screens). With the Sony Vaio GRT816S however, the image...

kepler3001 11.02.2004 · Read review
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Review of Sony Vaio PCG-GRT816S