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    Is it just me, or are the people over at Sonystyle on crack and making tons of odd mistakes...

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Duke2007, Aug 29, 2008.

  1. Duke2007

    Duke2007 Notebook Deity

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    If you could post errors or odd things here, post and i will forward this to sonystyle to get things fixed hopefully.

    Errors:

    SR Additional battery: picture is silver, specs sheet says black. Link

    SR Dock: only has 3 USB, under "features" says 4. Link



    Odd marketing:

    *cheaper to customize rather than get pre-built now

    *VGN-SR190NGB is most expensive prebuilt, yet it has the same price as VGN-SR165E/B which is supposed to be/used to be the cheapest prebuilt which has HOME PREMIUM instead of Business, only 3 GB memory instead of 4 and a P8400 instead of p8600. Seriously, what the hell? Link
     
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  2. ac500

    ac500 Notebook Evangelist

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    Insanely priced refurbished models on SonyStyle:

    Also, SZ premium laptops come with a VGP-BPS10 6-cell standard battery with 5800mah capacity. When you order a replacement from SonyStyle, the BPS10 isn't available - only the 5200mah VGP-BPS9 is, which is included with non-premium SZ models. If I pay $200 for a laptop battery replacement, it better be 5800mah like the original.
     
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    aerodrome Notebook Consultant

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    newegg had an FW preconfigure model that listed a 200gb 7200rpm hdd, but when customers started recieving them, they had noticed the included drive was a 250gb 5400rpm model.

    The customers reported that newegg stated they copied the description from the sonystyle site for that model. Newegg has now updated the description on the site.
     
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