Sony VAIO VGN-AR60Brand: Sony
Binding: Personal Computers
Sony wins again [Posted on 2008-02-13]
Im a SONY fan so this review will be a little bias. I traded my old SONY 15' in for this moblie desktop. The Blu-ray upgrade was very well priced, I believe the same model without it was $200 less.
Pro-
The Xbrite screen is clear and crisp. It makes me feel like im watching a plasma. Na, thats a push.
The factory 2 GB of RAM installed. Its good for gaming right out of the box.
The Blu-ray drive. If youve seen a Blu-ray movie, you already know its beautiful, if not, go buy one. Also, almost 70% of the movie industry is Blu-ray exclusive. HDDVD is going the way of ZIP drives.
Battery Life. I bought a extended battery and ive had it last aboout two and ahalf hours after a full charge. I did not buy the SONY version though, the compatable off factory one works and fits just the same for about $150 less.
The quick keys. You can control music and movies right from the keyboard, no need to click with the mouse. There are two "S" buttons on the keyboard also that you can use to control almost any program or app without having to go to the start menu.
The Motion Camera. Its intergrated on the laptop and its really clear for 1.3 MP. I use it to chat on Yahoo with no issues.
CONS
The mouse buttons. The weirdly placed on the end of the laptop. They feel like they will break off if you click them too hard.
The USB ports. There on the right side and for right handed people using a external mouse, you have to reach a lil to use it.
The Keyboard. Its placed a lil farther back then I like. My hands are small for a guy.
The battery life. This is why I bought the extended battery. The factory battery holds up for about 45-1 hour at the max. This is a beast of a laptop and you cant expect a regular battery to be able to handle a lot of work for a long time anyway.
Weight. Its heavy but its expected for this size.
I just bought my laptop a month ago and ive traveled to New Zealand and back without any major issue so far. Ill update this review later.
Hard drive issue [Posted on 2008-04-02]
Well, mine shows only one hard drive; a total of 141GB under my computer even though it shows both hard drives in BIOS. When I called the customer support numerous times, they all said different things but nothing they said resolved the issue. One guy said that the other hard drive is mirrored thats why it is not showing up and suggested me to perform the system recovery. I did that too, but it didn't work. Anybody else has/had the same issue? Or know how to resolve this issue? Other than this hard drive issue, everything is excellent.
Vaio [Posted on 2008-05-13]
Laptop was in a good shape, however there were no CD/DVD drivers attached or OS. This was key because I had problem with Vista since the beginning - error messages and unable to login (and Vista wanted to reinstall).
I had to play with it for a while, download 400 MB of Vista upgrades and 150 MB of Sony upgrades to work... and it is still not working properly. Hard to say if it is fault of seller or Sony...
sony vaio laptop [Posted on 2008-07-06]
The Sony Vaio rebuilt laptop I purchased is just the best!! Has all kinds of great features. Great Buy and I'm glad I did it.
The best laptop I've ever had [Posted on 2008-07-11]
Awesome laptop! As soon as I took it out of the box, I was shocked at how beautiful it is. The screen is very bright, and everything about it is great! I definitely reccomend!
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