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    My Experience with a Vaio Serie Z refurbished

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by slash23, Apr 15, 2011.

  1. slash23

    slash23 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi

    Last Friday I bought a refurbished Z13 full spec with a 7200rpm 500Gb HD instead of SSD, it arrived on monday but I found that the Toshiba HD had some bad clusters and windows used to crash.

    THe notebook was perfeclty new, never used, never opened, all licenses was inactivated, al seals was unbreaked, no bad pixels, no signs.

    Yesterday they sent UPS to take it to the sony center to repair...

    my question is... what to do now?

    1) wait 5 days and keep the notebook
    2) something is wrong, better give it back to sony and take the 2k euros
     
    slash23, Apr 15, 2011
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  2. Steve78

    Steve78 Notebook Evangelist

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    Option 1...
     
    Steve78, Apr 15, 2011
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  3. pyr0

    pyr0 100% laptop dynamite

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    Option one. Keep it, reinstall windows from scratch (clean install) and have fun with the machine. If you send it in, you will probably get it back with scratches and scuffs etc and nothing fixed at all. If you will encounter serious problems, you have warranty anyways.
     
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  4. slash23

    slash23 Notebook Enthusiast

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    sry for my english but... I already sent it to the local sony assistance, UPS man passed yesterday to take it, the notebook was unusable, 1 crash every 5 minutes for the HD problem.

    1) they said that the notebook will come back in 5 days, and I enjoy mu Z13 with the new HD
    2) after these 5 days I call sony asking them to sent another UPS to take the notebook for ever and they give me back money, I'll take this option if I think that this PC has something wrong anyway, cause is refurbished (but new), cause HD was damaged... and maybe in the future something else can occour...
     
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  5. Ashers

    Ashers Notebook Evangelist

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    I have had a very bad experience with HDDs in the Sony Vaio Z: I had three hard drives (the 320GB model) fail on the PC (all with bad clusters appearing on the drive after having it for a while, once within 2 weeks!). In the end, I got an SSD version instead, as the PC was spending longer at Sony repair than it was with me!
     
    Ashers, Apr 15, 2011
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  6. Crus-T

    Crus-T Notebook Consultant

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    2k euros for a refurbished HDD version of vaio Z ???
     
    Crus-T, Apr 15, 2011
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  7. ota-con

    ota-con Notebook Deity

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    That's pretty expensive...no?
     
    ota-con, Apr 15, 2011
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  8. slash23

    slash23 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Intel® CoreTM i7-640M, 2,80GHz
    Windows® 7 Ultimate autentico
    Italiano (QWERTY)
    Premium Carbon (lucido)
    500 GB Serial ATA (7200 rpm)
    8 GB 1066MHz DDR3-SDRAM
    33,3 cm LCD, 1600x900 + webcam
    Sicurezza avanzata
    Batteria standard
    Wireless WAN
    Tastiera e retroilluminazione
    3 porte USB

    Include inoltre

    Wireless LAN + Bluetooth®
    NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 330M 1GB
    1 Adattatore c.a.

    2.448,98 € IVA incl

    that's the price on the custom shop in italy for serie Z with no DVD player

    mine has fullHD monitor, but that option is no more available on sony store, so the price was higher that 2448,98
     
    slash23, Apr 16, 2011
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