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

Another Sony marvel, this time with Blu-Ray built in!

Advantages: HUGE harddrive, lots of memory, stylish and fast. Easy to use and robust.
Disadvantages: Battery life could be better, and I'd have preferred it to be a little lighter.

...I seem to have developed a habit of reviewing laptops, so why break with tradition. Here we have the Sony Vaio VGN FW 41 - a mid to high-spec 16.4" screen laptop, designed with gamers, office workers, professionals and casual users all in mind. One of the first things I noticed with this laptop is how professional and stylish it looks, with its silver metal lining. It wouldn't look out of place in a teenagers bedroom or a top executive's office. That's one of the first key pro's about this laptop - it suits practically every kind of person. You wouldn't want to leave it on a train table or cair while nipping off to the loo. Then again, you wouldn't want to do that with any laptop ! The 16.4" screen is an unusual size, as they are usually either smaller at 15.4" or bigger at 17". The image is impressive, very much so...

4leafclover 17.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sony Vaio VGN FW 41

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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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 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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Review of Sony VAIO FW Series VGN-FW21L

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

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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Review of Sony VAIO CR Series VGN-CR31S/L

Sony still has the WOW factor with this little treasure!

Advantages: Great appearance, superfast, large 320gb harddrive and ideal-size screen
Disadvantages: Battery life is only about average, and there's a strong variance in price.

...Sony have been long considered the unofficial champions of the Electronics industry, and it's little wonder why - when you witness a Sony Vaio in action. This product comes in what Sony likes to call 'cotton white'. A soft and luxurious looking colour that isn't too dull or too bright. It looks smart, yet graceful. It isn't likely to turn too many heads when travelling on a train with it, which can only be a good thing surely. Upon first opening the laptop, I was pleasantly surprised at how neatly the integrated camera fitted in to the surrounding frame, and at how defined the keys look. They have a quiet and reassuring click when you press them, letting you know that you've pressed them correctly - but without waking up someone in the next room. The screen is 14.1 inches which is an ideal size for seeing movies, doing your...

4leafclover 09.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sony VAIO CS Series VGN-CS21S/W

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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