Why does it seem like-

Why does it seem like a lot of people dislike Sony notebooks? I'm quite happy with mine. Or maybe it's just me- noticing trivial things.

 

The biggest knock is they tend to use proprietary parts or parts that are not easily upgradable, while charging a premium price tag. Sony marches to their own beat, so it can be love/hate at times.

 

OK. Thank you. Yeah, many people have complained about not having any Bluetooth software whatsoever. Well, I'm glad I got mine at an affordable price!!

 

They really should add a multi-card reader to their notebooks. Supporting only Memory Stick is probably keeping some potential customers away.

 

I'm new to laptops. What would you need other card readers for? My digital camera has a Memory Stick, which can be inserted into my laptop to upload pictures.

 

for lots of reason you need a card reader....
if you're a pseudo -pro photographer...you need a card reader to transfer your pics from the CF microdrive....
for MP3....SD for other cameras than sony's..........
etc

 

I wouldn't mind just getting an external card reader. I really hate Sony's support, and their computers are WAY overpriced. I do like how some of their computers look and their screens are pretty nice.

 

I have a external reader, it is a minus to the sonys, I don't think they are way overpriced, they are not alienware, sony does the little things right, that is what i really like about them, for example, to save battery life i can turn off my cdrom drive, that is a nice touch, i have never had a unit that could do that.

Oh and the keyboards and screens are to DIE for

 

What turned me off to Sony was the "You either love em or hate em" part. When your putting $1,700 - $2,000 into a computer I want to know im going to be happy. I know people who love their sony's and i know people who will never buy a computer form them again.

However I noticed FS Series is one of there more reasonabled priced items.

 

How do you accomplish that??

 

It must be a feature on the sony S Series, I think that's the model notebook bink has. I've never heard of that being done before.

 

I can disable the optical drive, iLink, and built-in modem from the Vaio power management utility as well. Not sure how much battery life it will add though...

 

Well first off if you could afford it you'll like it and most of the time if you're buying it you're getting it for it's style. Alot of people hate it becuase of it's price and also how their stuff ain't capatible with most other stuff (like ram and crap) Sony builds their laptop so compactly that if you were to take it apart you'll have a crap load of problems putting it back together and slo taking apart a $2500-3000 dallor laptop ain't worth it.

 

I'm a proud owner of a Vaio S460. While I usually avoid pre-configured retail models, this package was the best deal for me considering CPU, GPU, HDD, optical drive, WLAN card, LCD, battery life, and most of all weight. My research concluded with a choice b/w the S460 and the Asus W3V. The Sony definately had the advantage b/c I had been considering it since the S Series first launched w/ the S160 last year and had demo'd every model up to now. With the $250 in rebates, I swapped the 2 x 256 DDR2 333 Samsung for 2 x 1GB DDR2 533 modules from Crucial for $280. The RAM install took under 10 minutes and my notebook is running flawlessly. In response to previous posts about incompatibility with upgrades, what real experience do you base your comments on. Posts that include vague statements with little to no support are really just a waste of everyone's time. It was fast before, but now for you car guys it was like adding a turbo or supercharger and NOS. I'm a Computer Science student and use my S460 for coding in Java, C, C++, SQL, etc., web browsing, playing FPS games (fingers crossed for BF2), watching movies and listening to music, backing up DVD's (love the DL DVD burner). My SO is an Interior Design student and she uses it for 2-d and 3-d design and rendering software. Overall, I'm extremely impressed with this machine.

 

I just love my Vaio. Getting another one for the wife next week. I also swapped out the memory for 2 gigs (didn't get if from Crucial though--by a German company called infineon). I am planning on upgrading the drive from 80/5400 RPM to one of the new Hitachi 7k100s 100/7200 RPM. I love the screen, though it could be a bit brighter. And, at 1.73 Ghz, this thing is quick.

One question though, CompUSA on its website claims that the "installed memory" for the S460P is 128MB. Can anyone confirm? Does not really matter if it is, because even without overclocking it plays Rome Total War pretty well.