Sony VAIO VGC-RA830G Desktop PC (Intel Pentium 4 Processor 550 (H-T), 1 GB RAM, 2x160 GB Hard Drives, Dual Layer DVD+/-RW, DVD-ROM Drives) | List Price: $1,799.99
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Platform: Microsoft XP Media Center Edition
Brand: Sony
Binding: Personal Computers
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - Monitor Not Included!
- Intel Pentium 4 Processor 550 (3.4 GHz)
- 1MB L2 Cache
- 800MHz FSB
- 1GB PC3200 400MHz DDR SDRAM
buyer beware!! [Posted on 2005-05-17]
Just bought this yesterday at compusa. Will be taking it back tomorrow morning. This is the 5th computer I have owned and the worse I have ever seen. Sony has allot of wonderful software on this system and impressive 5.1 speakers that come with it. But you are screwed if you have to do a system recovery. Followed the directions and spent 2 hours making recovery disks before putting any of my software on it, only to find out that when it tries to recover your system it prompts you to insert disk #1 and press ok. Guess what? You can't press ok because your wireless mouse and keyboard are no longer functional. And turning off the computer wiped out ALL my system restore checkpoints. So I couldn't even restore to a earlier time. When I tried it again I then got a message that it couldn't locate the recovery partion. And forget about any type of help from the website or the non-existant user manual. The only help they had was to change the batteries in the mouse and keyboard (they already had brand new batteries).
Nice package [Posted on 2005-05-25]
The RA8xxx Series from Sony is very nice. Big plus is the cooling system. The machine is super quiet. The integrated Home Media support is a nice bonus. I don't think I'd want to use one of these as a TiVo replacement but for a home machine it's tough to beat from a combination of style, power, features and performance.
Negatives are the crappy mouse and keyboard and having to burn your own Recovery software.
worst comuter i have ever seen [Posted on 2006-02-02]
bought it at CompUSA today, try to recover the system, having the same problem as above (took me 2 hours to make the recovery disc too). got to return it. never buy a SONY computer agaian.
4 years and still going [Posted on 2008-01-18]
Nice to see reviews where someone keeps it for a day. This thing is great. Quiet, dependable. Easy to upgrade. It has new Ram and I upped the HD after 3 years to a new larger one. I finally upped the Video card as well. The main thing is it still works beautifully. 5 stars for a quiet long lasting and dependable machine.
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