Eisboch wrote:
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On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:58:56 +0000, John H. wrote:

Am considering this laptop for my wife's birthday in a couple weeks.
Best Buy has it on sale for $999. I'll add another gig of RAM and
router.

http://tinyurl.com/59yons

Thoughts?
If you haven't already pulled the trigger . . . I'll never buy another
Sony product. Do a web search on their quality control, customer
service, etc. At one time, Sony was right at the top, no longer. YMMV.


I agree with that, and it isn't limited to computers. Sony audio equipment
has gone downhill over the past few years as well.
Used to be halfway decent. No more.

Eisboch



SONY's "consumer" audio stuff was just average. It used to offer some
high-end audio equipment that was indeed halfway decent, but no more.




The only laptop SONY makes that is of the slightest interest is a very
small, very light model that might make a good business travel mate.
Most of the other SONY laptops seem too large and heavy for that sort of
use.

The SONY computers are consumer grade, no better or worse than anyone
else's similar stuff. SONY does "publish" a top of the line audio
manipulation program for semi-studio work that is very nifty, but if
memory serves, someone programmed it for SONY to put out under its
nameplate. It retails for like $500 or so.