Great low-mid level laptop, for work, rest and play!

Advantages: Superfast, great design and nice-sized harddrive
Disadvantages: There are more advanced laptops out there. Price varies considerably.

...Here we have another great laptop by Sony and should that surprise anyone, considering that Sony are one of the most respected manufacturers of electronics in the world ? The Sony Vaio VGN-NS30E/W is a low-mid level laptop designed to fit the needs of most business and leisure users. To better illustrate the features, the pros and the cons I've split the review into sections for you................ APPEARANCE -------------------- This laptop is honestly gorgeous in its design. The white frame gives it a very crisp and clean look, much like an IPOD and makes you excited to see what it can do. Upon opening the laptop, you're greeted with a stunning screen with X-Black technology. This means that the black backgrounds, vivid colours of media players and photos look very deep and rich. Games, movies and applications all look...

4leafclover 23.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sony VAIO NS Series VGN-NS30E/W

Sony VAIO. You'll never need anythin else.

Advantages: LIght, powerful, safe
Disadvantages: expensive

...My dad was looking for a new laptop as he had just changed his job and his old laptop was a company laptop. The old laptop was a Dell so at first he looked at Dell laptops as he hadn't had any problems with his old laptop and thought it would be a good idea to stick with them because he trusted their name. He then saw an article in one of his pc magazines on Sony VAIO laptops. He looked into this further, liked the specs of the laptops and their prices for what you get and decided that was the type of laptop he wanted to get. VAIO Sony's range of laptops goes under the name of VAIO. There are 8 different series of laptops each with their own specialities as such. They are: AR Series, C Series, BX Series, G Series, N Series, UX Series, SZ Series and the TX Series. These range from laptops for big business men down to laptops...

dbirse 14.04.2007 (16.04.2007) · Read review
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Review of Sony VAIO SZ Series VGN-SZ4XWN/C

Sony Vaio FW21L - Movies and games everywhere

Advantages: Amazing processor and graphic card. 4GB RAM, Bluray optical drive
Disadvantages: $$$$

...Device Keyboard, touchpad Battery Lithium Ion Run Time (Up To) 3.2 hour(s) Operating System Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Overview With a simple yet stylish design, this Sony Vaio VGN-FW21L looks very similar to a Macbook. Even the keyboard design is the same. The power beneath, however, is much extraodinary than a normal Macbook. Display Equiped with a 16.4" screen, which has a high resolution of 1600x900 WXGA and a true 16:9 aspect ratio, is capable of producing impressively performance. This large screen is able to satisfy every single user, who is in the need of watching movies, playing games or view photos in high detail. The pictures produced are very vivid, sharp and realistic. There seem to be no colour in this world that cannot be produced on this screen. The X-black screen technology increases...

mt0902 10.06.2009 · Read review
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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

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

Sony VAIO CR21S/P Laptop

Advantages: Fast, looks good, comes in a variety of colours
Disadvantages: Expensive, mouse can sometimes play up

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why I brought the laptop ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I had had so many problems from my previous laptop, although I had only had it for 2 years - but there were problems with it right from the beginning. It was really staring to be unreliable and crashing all the time, as well it being highly annoying, I couldn't afford to keep loosing my work all the time and I was just waiting for the day for it to finally completely pack up, so I decided to go on the internet and start looking around for a new laptop. Originally I was looking for the cheapest yet good one I could find. By chance I ended up on the Sony website and advertised on the home page was this Sony Vaio. I instantly fell in love with it, so decided to check it out. This Sony Vaio is part of the CR Series and there are 3 different laptops which come with 3...

lilyellowfish 21.01.2008 (02.01.2008) · Read review
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Review of Sony VAIO CR Series VGN-CR21S/L

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

best in 14.1" series, sony CR

Advantages: good processing speed with graphics memory
Disadvantages: battery life

...Sony Vaio CR31Z/R Sony has launched some luxurious notebooks since last couple of years, and the CR series from Sony became more popular in these days. Looks and feel are extremely good in this series. Sony has mainly targeted on solid looking notebooks with adequate features and latest technology also. In this series the new model Vaio CR31Z now in market with fully featured and configured. *** Here is again my discussion points will be its good features with advantages and disadvantages also. First of all I always use to target my first discussion on processor of any notebook, because it is more important in all features at all. So here is also a good processor we can see in this model with Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 with 2.4 GHz of clock speed. Front size bus speed is about 800 MHz and L2 cache size is 3 MB, in my opinion this...

gemsarchitect 26.11.2008 · Read review
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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

Top Marks for Top Spec Sony SZ

Advantages: Build quality, speed and screen
Disadvantages: Not so great graphics, No DVI

...antennae on the right hand side if you never use it. Simply pull, and remove! Cons * Screen resolution isn't great; although is the maximum for this size screen. * Vista is a very Black operating system when running Aero, and this laptop is also very black - makes it quite dull to look at. * Vista + Sony = BAD. * No media buttons? *No DVI-D interface. Still uses dated VGA. * The built in memory card reader only supports Sony Memory Stick Duo and Pro Duo now (although there's a plus too) * Sony only put a 64MB 8400M GS in it; so below par graphics. A break-down Just going to go over everything I've thought of in the three months I've had this laptop using the ciao criteria: Speed This Vaio is fast. It's got a desktop equivalent processor at 2.2GHz so any tasks are done quickly and efficiently - you...

sourcez 07.01.2008 · Read review
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