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... Read review

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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... Read review

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Advantages: Light, compact, screen display
Disadvantages: Price, no floppy drive, hard to source

...I'll firstly start of with a cutdown list of the specification (I have not listed full details as they go on for ages!). Intel® Pentium® M Processor 735 Processor, 1.70A GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 400 MHz FSB, Windows® XP, 13.3" Display X-black, 1200 x 800 resolution, 512Mb RAM, 60Gb hard Disk, DVD-RW, Graphic Card ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9700, 64 MB VRAM, Wireless LAN, 10/100 network, modem, 2 x USB, Memory stick slot We had been looking for a lightweight laptop for a while, and after good advice decided to go for one of the Sony Vaio S series. After much deliberation I decided on the S1XP - the top model of the series (there are three models - S1XP, S1VP (availble only from Sony) and the S1HP (base model). The main reason for the purchase was to have soemthing lightweight but functional for travel. A lot of laptops seem to come... Read review

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Advantages: Stylish looks
Disadvantages: Weight, battery died, short-cut buttons didn't work.

...The Sony VAIO VGN-FE21M the laptop I am currently using. I am a student who does quite alot of travelling and I use the to keep in touch with family and friends. For the fist year this laptop worked fine apart from the short -cut buttons have never worked, after the first year the silver coating came off the mute, vol. up and vol. down buttons. Aslo into the second year they battery stopped working (I am not sure why i think it may have been to over heating), witch is ever annoying as now I need to have the have it plugged in to use, not ideal when travelling at all. The weight of the laptop is a little on the heavy side, and can add strain when carrying it with other items. Does look stylish and the speakers are of good quality compared to other laptops I've used. Another problem is the headphone 3.5mm jack is on the front, this makes... 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)

.../option... Of course there is also the mains adapter plug/port, so you can use the laptop with the mains adapter plugged in and charge the battery up that way, as per usual. There are also two network ports, I believe these are for use if you were to cable a modem in or otherwise for use with network cables/connections, thats all I know, sorry im no real expert in these things but the main ports and slots I've already mentioned. - Sony Site Spec. - If you'd like to check, this link should take you to a page where the full technical specification of this Vaio model is shown from the UK Sony Vaio support site:- http://support.vaio.sony.co.uk/specifications/specifications.asp?site=voee nGBcons&c=0&s=VGN-NR&m=3374 - Pre-Installed Applications - One nice advantage to buying a Vaio, even one of the cheapest ones like this, is that you get all... Read review

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Advantages: Very light, fantastic screen, good battery life
Disadvantages: 512 meg memory is a bit mean, Sony setup

...this laptop with the ATi Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics adapter so you'll be able to play the latest 3D games available. Adobe Photoshop is both memory and processor hungry. I've upgraded the RAM from the standard 512 to 1 gig (Kingston) and with this mod the unit runs as quickly as my 3500 64 bit AMD desktop. With a weight of only two kilo's 2kg, the VGN-S2XP is small and light enough to be carried in my case or in a rucksack when I'm on my bike. The Intel Pentium M 745 processor, which runs at a clock speed of 1.8GHz and supported by the standard, but upgradeable, 512MB of memory. Not the fastest but fast enough to run most (Photoshop, Office, Power DVD, Adobe Premiere) applications easily. There's a thin but fast DVD RW optical drive, 2 USB 2.0 ports, a modem port, a LAN port and a Memstick slot. An ultra portable notebook... Read review

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

...>>>> An important factor for any consumer to check. 64MB - small compared today's standards. I have never used the laptop to the degree where I have had to worry, but it seems quite ironic that my mp3 player stores more information than this device! This may not be any consolation but you can upgrade the memory to 128MB (still not great huh?). The option is there and priced at £42.29 and can be purchased from orcalogic.co.uk - they are 'in stock' today (17/01/06). <<<<The processor>>>> I'm not going to pretend I understand all the technical side of computers but the laptop runs at 333 MHz and is a Intel Celeron processor. From my understanding the processors speed determines how fast it carries out instructions. Thus this is quite slow compared to today's laptops such as the Sony Vaio VGN-S5XP/B with a Intel® Pentium® M processor 760 2... Read review

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Advantages: Looks cool, small, performs well.
Disadvantages: Expensive, somewhat lacking in creativity.

...® XP Professional Display: Diagonal Size (in) 14.1 Display Type: TFT Colour Resolution Format: 1024 x 768 Memory: Memory Size (MB) 512.0 Drives: Optical Drive Type, CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive Graphics: Integrated Chipset, Intel® 855GME integrated graphics chip and 64 MB of shared memory Connectivity: Wireless LAN Type 802.11 b/g Hard Drive: 40 (GB) DESIGN The VAIO VGN-B1VP is very well designed. It looks slick and very business-like. At 321 by 43 by 255mm, it's very small and easily portable. Although it does weigh somewhat more than many laptops of a similar size/design at 2.3kg it's still seems very light (to me anyway) and is still easily portable. I particularly like the cut-outs on either side that protect its ports, they add a nice touch to the overall design. The keyboard is well laid-out and easy to use. The design and style... Read review

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Advantages: Light, Slim, fun to use, easy to use, great expantion options.
Disadvantages: battery life is low when using DVDs.

...For years I have been using desktops with low power, poor performance & boring layout. My Vaio VGN-FS285e is my first proper laptop. When I've looked at computers in shops and online I have always looked at the brands most famous for computing, such as Apple & Hewlett Packard. I always have recognized Sony as one of the most advanced electronic companies in the World, and always loved the unique design of their computer systems. But have never been able to properly afford them. Most of their systems are over £1000 and, at my age, that is too much to spend. But after deciding I wanted a new computer, I discovered the FS285e. I bought it on Dabs.com as part of a promotion; I'd looked at the exact model in John Lewis in Manchester for £999 pounds a week before I bought it. It was £649. Which I think is incredible value, not only... Read review

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Advantages: Attractively Designed / Excellent Performance
Disadvantages: erm...

...word). So this little processor should happily fit your needs for all but the most CPU intensive of recent games or suchlike. (and you'd probably get away with a few of them, by knocking the settings down a bit). RAM (memory) The VGN-FE31M (possibly R2D2's illegitimate lovechild?) comes as standard with 1Gb of DDR2 SDRAM. This is a little low for my personal preference, but is more than sufficient for the majority of day to day tasks and is upgradeable to 2Gb anyway, if you have any spare cash lurking down the back of the sofa. Hard Drive Comes with a 160Gb Serial ATA hard disk, (Already partitioned into "C" & "D" drives when supplied). This provides more than ample storage for a laptop so sleek and transportable. (Although I managed to fill it on more than one occasion, damn my accursed pack-rat tendencies) Optical... Read review

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