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Sony VAIO PCG-FRV25 Laptop (2.66-GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive) | List Price: $1,399.99
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Platform: Windows XP Home Edition
Brand: Sony
Binding: Personal Computers
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Good - but more of bad [Posted on 2003-11-20]
Bad things:-
1. All usb ports on the left side - make sure to buy a mouse with long cable
2. External cable connection next to CD drive - why complicate things dear SONY
3. Many keys not working - Just after two months. Am still try to figure out the SONY dealer in ISRAEL.
4. There is no International free one year service like what TOSHIBA offers.
Vaio thoughts [Posted on 2004-01-06]
Fastest machine I've ever used for video games and programming. Hooked up with a Cable Connection and high speed internet action, I've got state-of-the-art power. A little large for a laptop, but probably because of its speakers, built in. Performance of XP on it is very reliable, crashing at most once a week. When it does crash, not very graceful. Sometimes when it has been on a while, it refuses to shut down, and must be DQ'd. Otherwise, no complaints really. Does NOT appear to come with adequate virus protection. Figures. I've compared and considered about 15 machines since, including popular items such as HP and Dell, and even after 6 months, I still have no regrets. Two and a half thumbsup.
very poor customer service, below average hardware [Posted on 2004-05-23]
I have had the Vaio for several months, and the software installed on Vaio has finally crashed out completely. Sony now freely admits the cd recovery disk program included with the machine does not work, in fact has never worked, and they still want you to shell out 60 bucks for the cd recovery kit, which takes up to four weeks for delivery. The Keyboard on my unit arrived with the 'delete' key not working, and Sony told me that since I had purchased it mail order, I would have to send it to them for repair, and it would take three mothns MINIMUM to fix. I have instead learned to live without a delete key. Overall, a very poor experience with Sony. I will stick to Toshiba or Dell in the future, companies who were far more supportive of their products and customers.
Loud but good [Posted on 2005-10-02]
I bought this laptop in Apr, 2003 for College. It is great. I can do pretty much everything a college student and more can do.
The only thing i dont like about this laptop, well there are two, are first, the fan, and second the weight.
The fan is loud and it runs non-stop. Even with the fan running constantly the computer is still quite hot. The weight is the other factor for me. It weights close to 8LBS! So it is not really a laptop, just a cool thin desktop.
By the way, dont wear shorts and have this laptop on your lap. You will be asking for first degree burns hahahah.
But not to dis this laptop too much, since i am typing from it right now, it is a good laptop/desktop for a college student.
End of 2008, STILL GOING! [Posted on 2008-09-18]
I am writing to you on my Vaio PCG-FRV25. Yessiree. Bought it right when they were available over 5 years ago, and it is astounding to me that the processing speed keeps up with all my work to this day.
I dumped an entire glass of milk on this thing back in Ought Five. Zapped the keyboard. One inexpensive replacement keyboard later, I was back to illegally downloading music off LimeWire.
Of course that "adequate" 40 Gig hard drive is full, but my 300 Gig G-Drive Q is the perfect dumping ground for the memories we've shared.
Ah well. Good times, Sony. Good times.
Never did use that memory stick.
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