New and expensive Vaio not better than old one

For years I was happy with my Vaio VGN-SZ430N. It is light and powerful and my low opinion of the original Vista operative system was over when I installed a new Windows 7. With Office 2003 and VB6 I had all the tools I need for my work. I took my light computer on every trip easily and really need not more.

However some ads are very convincing and finally I bought a new Vaio, a full 64 bits VPCCW17FX, 17", more disk, etc., etc. and more expensive, of course. Then I put it in my luggage and let my old VGN home. After some days I was missing my old notebook. First the new has more screen what may be good, but is larger and not so easy to put in a business case. Is also heavier and after some hours you feel the difference. But what is really disappointing is that it may be a lot slower. When I take my Access 2003 files from the VGN to the Access 2010 in the VPCC they run till five times slower. It probably is due to be 32 bits apps running in 64 bits system but they do not tell you that when buying new notebooks. They offer only advantages and they forgot to advice you that after spending four digits figures you end with a worse machine for the work you are doing.

Happily I keep my old Vaio and still go OK. I will not trade it for the new models and some money. Some time new models are not better than old ones by large.

 

This has *nothing* to do with the notebook per se... sony sells you the h/w not the operating system. This rant should be in the microsoft forums IMHO.