Sony VAIO PCV-RX770 Desktop (2.2 GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB DDR RAM, 120 GB hard drive)Platform: Windows XP Home Edition
Brand: Sony
Binding: Personal Computers
Firewire and Memory Stick have Become Quite Useful [Posted on 2002-09-06]
When I purchased this Sony Vaio desktop computer, I bought it for its high speed and large storage capacity. I didn't think much about the Firewire connection or the Memory Stick reader which came included. I've since found both to be quite useful. With the Memory Stick reader in my Vaio -- and by installing a Sony PC Card Memory Stick adapter in my laptops -- I now use Memory Sticks like floppy disks to save and transfer data, music and digital photo files easily among all of my computers. For storing or transferring data, Memory Sticks are much more convenient than using CD's (or e-mailing the information to myself from work-to-home and back again). The Memory Stick reader also comes in handy if I want to download digital images to a Memory Stick -- in order to print them from my Sony Digital Photo Printer or my HP Photosmart printers (all of which read from Memory Sticks to print pictures); and the reader also comes in handy when downloading MP3 music files to play on my Sony Clie PDA (which uses Memory Sticks to store data beyond what its limited CPU can handle). Like the Memory Stick reader, my utilization of the Vaio's Firewire connection has been slowly growing, the first use being my Creative Labs 20 GB Jukebox which feeds through a Firewire connection; the second being my Iomega Peerless 20 GB accessory disk drive (that I use to file and save digital photos); and the third being my Minolta Multiscan Pro film scanner which uploads 35 mm and 6 x 6 negative and slide film images (faster through a Firewire than a USB connection). To tie them all together, I use a Belkin Firewire hub -- and Belkin Firewire cables (which look cool, and have the appearance of braided steel). As my use of data, music and digital image files increases -- my Sony Vaio with its built-in Firewire and Memory Stick reader -- easily allows me to stay ahead of the curve!
My SONY Nightmare [Posted on 2002-09-22]
I bought a SONY VAIO RX-770 on July 6, 2002. On the first day the machine froze up on the internet. That was my first of over 20 calls to the SONY technical support group. After 3 shipments back and forth to SONY's repair service center in San Diego, my PC finally is in operating condition. My PC spent approximately 5 weeks in San Diego and had a better vacation than I did. They replaced the Modem, Motherboard and finally the CPU. It is now almost 3 months since my purchase, my PC is finally operating correctly. My e-mail inquires to SONY received no response, my phone inquires to management received no return calls and the phone center personnel broke their arms patting themselves on the back for doing such a great job (?). It became chillingly apparent to me that SONY was not interested in customers.
Missing video adapter on Vaio RX770 [Posted on 2003-03-03]
I am unable to change the video settings in this computer. It came with no video adapter. I have just one video setting 800x600 which is not good enough the play DVDs. Best Buy will not take it back nor is of any help. Sony telephone soupport was awful. My first and last Sony computer!
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