I would echo Harry's review. We've had a Viao in the past (was before XP) and had dealings with their support which is not great. We had keyboard damage and were in warranty and they did support it in the end but one sensed they to be pretty much by the book and standoffish. Frankly in the computer industry the only one decent for my dealings has been DELL which I've known more from my work world generally the Latitude series. IBM makes great stable hardware but has a history of not so good tech support again my experience in corporate worlds. I love Apple products and have a G3 powerbook and G4 tower. My kids both have Macbooks (white ones). Though I do love OSX and Apple's sense of fun in their products I'm disappointed in their laptop hardware being so delicate and to a sense cheap in design. We've had to replace now the power adapters for the Macbooks 4 x. I have found generics on ebay that one has outlasted the Apple and the other died though the vendor is honoring it. On the same Macbook though I argued power management issues with my son in the end I just replaced his battery. His Macbook is 1.5 years now. Of all my laptop experience the DELL Latitudes seem to be the most dependable including their service. I have had the luxury of Gold Suppor from them due to corporate paying for it.
Jim Goodin
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:30 AM,
<HarryEsq@aol.com> wrote:
Michael - I've had VAIOs before. I've generally liked them but my last experience was not a good one. The hard drive on my laptop crashed within a day or two of the warranty expiring. The hard drive was good but the motherboard was zapped. When I called SONY to take care of it they basically told me to take a hike. I argued with the guy and pointed out to him that I had been a long time purchaser of SONY products and he continued to tell me I was out of luck but that he would look into it. Shortly after I purchased a laptop from a different manufacturer SONY called me back and announced that they would take care of it and would send me a mailer to send the computer back to them for repair. By then it was too late and I had already removed the hard drive from the VAIO and restored my data using an enclosure.
My experience with SONY is that they are generally good products (however, I will never buy another one) but are overpriced in that you can get the same or superior quality from other manufacturers for less money.
Regards,
Harry
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In a message dated 10/13/2008 7:02:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
mp@mpeters.de writes:
I think I'll buy a Sony Vaio notebook simply because their LCDs seem to be
much brighter than anyone else's, and that would allow me to work outdoors.
Now there are many subspecies of Vaio and I'm not sure which one would be
best suited for music purposes. Suggestions anyone?
-Michael
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