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I love this computer, it is so cute and light weight. So far no complaints.
after two weeks of getting the product, the right speakers completely died on me so i was only left with one speaker. the way this laptop was put together is NOT top notch. it would REFUSE to close down, and even with the alt+ctrl+delete to force end the process, it wouldn't do either. it ranged from 10-30 minutes OR IT WOULDN'T EVEN SHUT DOWN/RESTART. so i restarted, nothing happened, and then it would occur again.3. the first man i talked to refused to believe it was the VAIO laptop's fault and insisted i installed a new updated version of firefox (or ie) and repeatedly said it was because of my anti virus and firewall programs.
likewise to loading a youtube video. this occurred after a few ours of starting up the computer. terrible sound, nothing extraordinary. however, problems soon arose over the next couple of weeks. when that happened, i had to restart every time, and then it would take FOREVER to do so. (i hadn't called SONY because it wasn't as big of a deal since i was at university).4.
i felt as if he treated me like a kid, just because i wasn't exactly "computer smart" and that i sounded like a 12 year old (i'm 18).another time i called, the man just said to do a restore which didn't help either. the sound system is HORRIBLE. my warranty has expired and so there's nothing i can really do about it.it has gotten extremely worse lately (i have to restart more than 7 times). didn't help. do not buy this. afterward, i began to experience browsing difficulties.
reasons why NOT to buy this laptop.1. i had to bring my own speakers to get the right side to work, and even with the speakers on max volume, the sound was still close to nothing compared to other laptop's sound system.2. my firefox would freeze up and i'd have to close it, or sometimes that would happen with MSN messenger as well, or say, a program installed on my computer. while it looks pretty and eye-catching, it is NOT EVEN worth the money. when i first bought the laptop, i absolutely LOVED it.
about six months in, i began experiencing some audio difficulties.while surfing the net, i sometimes would load a page with many images, and if i had music playing, it was complete static until the page finished loading. customer service: i called them about it several times and they weren't a huge help either.
Do yourself a favor and buy anything but a Sony Vaio. I spoke to three friends who have owned Vaios, and they also experienced catastrophic failure of some kind. I called Sony and they said there was nothing they would do as it was out of warranty. Vaios may be pretty to look at, but beauty is only skin deep. Sony Vaio is the absolute worse computer I've ever owned. After 14 months the motherboard died, and replacing it cost almost as much as the computer new--$1,300 new, $1,100 for the motherboard. I've owned many computers--Dell, Macintosh--and never once had a problem.
The battery always slips out so unless it's pluged in the vaio tends to completely shut down with a simple movement. As soon as I get enough money I'll be getting rid of this one before I run into anymore issues.
Get a different, better model. I read the reviews and ignored the bad ones because there were MANY good ones.
My warranty will be out in a month and I'm shaking in fear. I'm not saying all the vaois are bad but definitely this one.
I've had this laptop for less than a year and in that time the screen has turned completely black and it sporadically decideds when it would like to start up correctly (or read my hard drive at all). I have to say that the display button that blacks out the computer is nice as well as the webcam button but these features and the pretty color options aren't worth the trouble.
Well, the good ones belonged to the people who only owned it for a month or less.
I tried to recover the system with the recovery option but the partition was corrupted so I wasn't able to install. The memory was bad and made the system break up. I called Sony support and they didn't help very much.
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