Advantages: Light, looks great, and it's cheap
Disadvantages: Outdated, low specs, poor battery performance.

...Laptops are in high demand by students, professionals and home users. The specifications available today are truly amazing, but they can carry a high price tag. The Sony Vaio PCG-N505X is a stylish compact laptop launched in 1998. It weighs a mere 1.2 kg, with a 10.4" TFT screen. <<<<So how does it look?>>>> With dimensions of 25.9 cm x 20.8 cm x 2.2 cm the laptop looks sublime. The laptop casing is silver with a blue battery department at the back of the laptop (where the lid folds). There are several slots on the left hand side of the device, which include; a memory slot, AC adapter, USB (just the one port), microphone and headphones. The other side of the laptop comprises of the: Power switch (which is a slide button), a reset button - which you press in and finally there is a slot to plug in your external... Read review

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Advantages: Ultra-portable, Magnesium alloy casing, Runs XP no problem!, cost just £90!
Disadvantages: Battery life is about 1 hour, Low spec by today's standards

...I'm a big fan of electrical gadgets and was browsing ebay when I came across a Sony Vaio N505X Ultra-Portable notebook going cheap - I paid just £90 for mine which was in pristine condition and included the official Vaio external CD-Rom drive, external floppy drive, port replicator, power supply, upgraded to 128MB of ram and upgraded 30GB hard drive. I already have a perfectly adequate desktop computer but thought it would be nice to make more use of my wireless router. I personally think that the majority of laptops are rather bulky, the N505X, however, is one of the smallest laptops I have ever seen - its only 22mm thick and weighs around 1Kg! This product first hit the shelves about 8 years ago and even now in 2007 it doesn't look all that dated due to its size and clever styling with the large Vaio logo embossed on the lid... Read review

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Advantages: Looks good, feels good, works good.
Disadvantages: none so far.

...I have always wanted a laptop, and have always liked Sony products. Looking around at the various packages available, I came across the Sony Vaio FX802 AMD1500+ 256/30Gb reduced in my local Comet store at £889.99. It being reduced as it is no longer in production, so I checked up and found out it only came out in October 2002 so it is only six months since its launch date. This model is virtually the same as the replacement model FX902 except this model has a larger hard drive? An excellent machine for business but since the graphics is only 8mb not that usefull for playing the most up to date games, but over all I feel the machine to be well built, quite slim, not the lightest machine but not overly heavey and of cause that excellent overall Sony quality feel to both the keyboard and screen, and at £889.99 a bargain for a brand name... Read review

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Advantages: colour, fast, easy to use, cheap (if you get it in the right place)
Disadvantages: None as far as i can see

...I don’t care what other people tell you the M505 is the best pda there is. Price If I got my M505 for £375 like other people have quoted in there Ops I think I would still be please but not as pleased. I got mine for £175 from Ebay and the most I’ve seen it in the shops for is £275. Value For Money The palm M505 is great value for money. I see people saying that £350 pocket PC’s have bigger processors so they must be better, but I think this is a load of rubbish. Who would ever use 400mhz to open word documents or play simple (yet fun) games? Pocket PC’s are to powerful, expensive and they don’t have as much software. The M505 however has all the power you need, has a bright colour screen, an expansion card slot. My Palm Setup I use my Palm for doing GCSE coursework and playing games during English lessons :P . I have... Read review

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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)