Vaio netbook

Sony VAIO VPC-EE42FX/BJ 15.5-Inch Widescreen Entertainment Laptop (Black)

2011-06-24T02:35:00.000-07:00

So far, so good
I have wanted a Sony forever, but hesitated because of a lot of so-so reviews. I finally purchased a top-of-the-line HP - i7, blue ray, 17.3" that cost almost $1,100 after a $300 coupon. The blue ray wouldn't work, a couple of other little things were wrong, so I sent it back (I had ordered from HP direct - no hassle returning - I had my credit in 3 days). After I dropped the HP off at FedEx, I stopped at BJ's and saw the Sony Vaio VPC EE42FX on sale for $399.95 ($499.95 less $100 rebate at register). Total with tax - $435. I bought mainly to try a Sony and thought I'd probably return it. I've still got a couple of days to go, but it's a keeper. I hardly notice the difference between my old HP 17.3" and this. I still have my numeric keyboard, which I couldn't do without. I'm not having any trouble adjusting to the alplha keys being slightly to the left. It's as fast as the new HP was. I'm wondering now why I originally spent $1100 for the same thing I got for $435. I would have given 5 stars except for the sound. It's mediocre - not loud enough for me even at full volume. But ear phones easily solve that problem.

great laptop, good speakers

2011-06-24T02:33:00.001-07:00

Toshiba Satellite L655-S5158 15.6-Inch Laptop (Black)
I'm typing this just thinking about what I wanted to know before I bought so this will be very back and forth as I'm thinking. For the price this is a great laptop. This one is replacing and older desktop that is close to death so I'm not picky. I like the number keypad but if you don't like having that like some people then don't buy a laptop with the number pad so you can't complain. I can actually type without having to turn off the touch pad unlike other laptops I've used. The lock for the touch pad is below the space bar so it would be easy to turn off if you end up with problems typing. It's also great to have the multi touch touch pad to zoom in and out. I can find the delete, number lock and insert keys easily so that's good. The backup took about an hour and used 3 DVD disk to complete plus one disk for the system repair disk. It has a great screen for watching Hulu unless you are use to extremely large screens. The speakers are good for a laptop. Really do you expect much from laptop speakers? I turned up the volume on both the player and main volume control and could back up where multiple people could watch and hear. They are better than other laptop speakers I have used where you have to hover inches from the screen to
hear or use headphones. I'm happy with it. The web cam did well with Skype. It has a microphone which low end laptops don't always have. The blue light to tell you the web cam is on is a little bright but maybe that will help when in low light. Plus you'll know when you're on camera when it activates and blinds you for a couple of seconds. I'm having to get use to the windows 7 but already like the ease of sharing files with my wife's laptop. I haven't tested the battery life yet but everything I read said it has really long life if you use the correct settings with dimmer display and short time before sleep kicks in. I set mine to that when not plugged in but always awake when plugged in for when I use it to play videos. I'll see how the battery life does this weekend while out of town. I don't notice it getting hot. I don't hear much mechanical noise unless the fan to the left kicks on but that's not often. If you are use to a more expensive laptop you may say this is a loud laptop. There is extra software added but I think that's fairly usual and I don't see much extra crap to be removed. With a 20% discount this was the same price as some other's I was looking at (also at a discount) but it had a larger hard drive by 150GB and a GB more memory. The one thing I didn't read that I don't like is that the memory card slot only takes the SD style cards/adapters. My wife's much cheaper Acer has a multi card reader that will accept SD style and XD. We have Olympus cameras that use the XD cards. I can use an adapter or just upload to her laptop and transfer to mine so I'm not too upset over this. It probably is written somewhere in the specs but I just didn't see it. I hope this answers any questions you have. I used the laptop last night without the cord and the battery life is great. It ran for about 4 hours before I got the 10% warning. I also hadn't turned on the eco utility until the last 30 minutes which dims the screen by 1 level, turns off unimportant programs and resets the standby to about 2 minutes of unuse. I'm sure with that it would easily reach the 5 hour battery life that is in the specs. It does have a cool chart when using the eco utility that shows the amount of power being used at that moment. Normal use when I checked was around 20-25 watts and the eco utility on setting dropped it to 8-10 watts.

Vaio netbooks

2009-09-29T06:37:00.001-07:00

Sony VAIO Lifestyle VGN-P688E/R 8-Inch Laptop - Red

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Product Features

* Intel Processor (1.33GHz)
* 2GB of RAM & built-in Bluetooth technology
* 64GB Serial ATA Solid State Drive & Integrated Mobile Broadband
* Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
* 8" LCD w/ XBRITE-ECO™ technology

Processor, Memory, and Motherboard

* Hardware Platform: PC
* Processor: 1.33 GHz Intel Core Solo
* System Bus Speed: 533
* Number of Processors: 1
* RAM: 2000 MB
* RAM Type: DDR2 SDRAM

Special Features

* Display Type: LED backlight
* Display Type: XBRITE-ECOTM technology
* Screen Size: 8"
* Maximum Resolution: 1600 x 768
* Memory Type: DDR2
* Memory Size: 2GB
* Memory Speed: DDR2 533
* Memory Slots (Total): 1
* Memory Slots (Filled): 1
* Memory Slots (Available)
* Maximum Memory Supported: 2GB
* Capacity: 64GB
* HDD/SSD Drives Included: 1x 64GB SSD
* Drive Types: Solid State Drive
* Lifestyle: Thin & Light
* Condition: New
* Operating Systems: Windows Vista Home Premium

Hard Drive

* Size: 64 GB
* Manufacturer: Solid state
* Type: Serial ATA

Graphics and Display

* LCD Native Resolution: 8

Ports and Connectivity

* Modem: Wireless cellular modem

Cases and Expandability

* Size (LWH): 4.8 inches, 9.7 inches, 0.8 inches
* Weight: 1.4 pounds

Power

* Rated Charge (normal use): 4 hours

Viao W netbook

2009-09-28T07:45:00.000-07:00

Sony VAIO VPC-W111XX/W 10.1-Inch White Netbook - 2.5+ Hour Battery Life
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Product Features

* 1.66GHz Intel N280 Atom Processor
* 1GB of pre-installed RAM
* 160GB HDD & built-in A2DP Bluetooth technology
* Microsoft Windows XP Home, 3 Cell Battery
* 10.1 LCD w/ XBRITE-ECO technology & LED backlight, Integrated MOTION EYE camera & microphone

Processor, Memory, and Motherboard

* Hardware Platform: PC
* Processor: 1.66 GHz Intel Celeron
* System Bus Speed: 667
* Number of Processors: 1
* RAM: 1000 MB
* RAM Type: SODIMM

Special Features

* Display Type: LED backlight
* Screen Size: 10.1"
* Maximum Resolution: 1366 x 768
* Memory Type: DDR
* Memory Size: 1GB
* Memory Speed: DDR2 533
* Maximum Memory Supported: 1GB
* Capacity: 160GB
* Drive Types: Hard Drive
* Hard Drive Speed: 5400 RPM
* Lifestyle: Netbooks
* Condition: New
* Operating Systems: Windows XP Home
* Startup Operating System: Windows® XP Home
* Platform: Netbook
* Processor Brand: Intel
* Processor Class: Atom
* Processor Type: Single-Core
* Processor Speed: 1.66GHz
* Processor Number: N280

Hard Drive

* Size: 160 GB
* Manufacturer: Portable
* Type: Serial ATA

Ports and Connectivity

* Modem: None

Cases and Expandability

* Size (LWH): 7.07 inches, 10.54 inches, 1.28 inches
* Weight: 2.65 pounds

Power

* Rated Charge (normal use): 3 hours

Vaio netbook W

2009-09-28T07:34:00.000-07:00

Sony VAIO VPC-W111XX/T 10.1-Inch Brown Netbook - 2.5+ Hour Battery Life
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Product Features

* 1.66GHz Intel N280 Atom Processor
* 1GB of pre-installed RAM
* 160GB HDD & built-in A2DP Bluetooth technology
* Microsoft Windows XP Home, 3 Cell Battery
* 10.1 LCD w/ XBRITE-ECO technology & LED backlight, Integrated MOTION EYE camera & microphone"

Processor, Memory, and Motherboard

* Hardware Platform: PC
* Processor: 1.66 GHz Intel Celeron
* System Bus Speed: 667
* Number of Processors: 1
* RAM: 1000 MB
* RAM Type: SODIMM

Special Features

* Display Type: LED backlight
* Screen Size: 10.1"
* Maximum Resolution: 1366 x 768
* Memory Type: DDR
* Memory Size: 1GB
* Memory Speed: DDR2 533
* Maximum Memory Supported: 1GB
* Capacity: 160GB
* Drive Types: Hard Drive
* Hard Drive Speed: 5400 RPM
* Lifestyle: Netbooks
* Condition: New
* Operating Systems: Windows XP Home
* Startup Operating System: Windows® XP Home
* Platform: Netbook
* Processor Brand: Intel
* Processor Class: Atom
* Processor Type: Single-Core
* Processor Speed: 1.66GHz
* Processor Number: N280

Hard Drive

* Size: 160 GB
* Manufacturer: Portable
* Type: Serial ATA

Ports and Connectivity

* Modem: None

Cases and Expandability

* Size (LWH): 7.07 inches, 10.54 inches, 1.28 inches
* Weight: 2.65 pounds

Power

* Rated Charge (normal use): 3 hours

Sony VAIO VPC-W111XX/P

2009-09-26T21:51:00.000-07:00

10.1-Inch Pink Netbook - 2.5+ Hour Battery Life
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Product Features

* 1.66GHz Intel N280 Atom Processor
* 1GB of pre-installed RAM
* 160GB HDD & built-in A2DP Bluetooth technology
* Microsoft Windows XP Home, 3 Cell Battery
* 10.1 LCD w/ XBRITE-ECO technology & LED backlight, Integrated MOTION EYE camera & microphone

Processor, Memory, and Motherboard

* Hardware Platform: PC
* Processor: 1.66 GHz
* System Bus Speed: 667

Hard Drive

* Manufacturer: Portable

Ports and Connectivity

* Modem: None

Cases and Expandability

* Size (LWH): 7.07 inches, 10.54 inches, 1.28 inches
* Weight: 2.65 pounds

Power

* Rated Charge (normal use): 3 hours

Sony VAIO VPC-W111XX/T

2009-09-26T11:27:00.000-07:00

10.1-Inch Brown Netbook - 2.5+ Hour Battery Life
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Product Features

* 1.66GHz Intel N280 Atom Processor
* 1GB of pre-installed RAM
* 160GB HDD & built-in A2DP Bluetooth technology
* Microsoft Windows XP Home, 3 Cell Battery
* 10.1 LCD w/ XBRITE-ECO technology & LED backlight, Integrated MOTION EYE camera & microphone"

Processor, Memory, and Motherboard

* Hardware Platform: PC
* Processor: 1.66 GHz Intel Celeron
* System Bus Speed: 667
* Number of Processors: 1
* RAM: 1000 MB
* RAM Type: SODIMM

Special Features

* Display Type: LED backlight
* Screen Size: 10.1"
* Maximum Resolution: 1366 x 768
* Memory Type: DDR
* Memory Size: 1GB
* Memory Speed: DDR2 533
* Maximum Memory Supported: 1GB
* Capacity: 160GB
* Drive Types: Hard Drive
* Hard Drive Speed: 5400 RPM
* Lifestyle: Netbooks
* Condition: New
* Operating Systems: Windows XP Home
* Startup Operating System: Windows® XP Home
* Platform: Netbook
* Processor Brand: Intel
* Processor Class: Atom
* Processor Type: Single-Core
* Processor Speed: 1.66GHz
* Processor Number: N280

Hard Drive

* Size: 160 GB
* Manufacturer: Portable
* Type: Serial ATA

Ports and Connectivity

* Modem: None

Cases and Expandability

* Size (LWH): 7.07 inches, 10.54 inches, 1.28 inches
* Weight: 2.65 pounds

Power

* Rated Charge (normal use): 3 hours