[Gllug] Sony Vaio

[Tushar Joshi]

I was looking at that today, 512mb ram 30 gig HD 1.2 G cpu, 15'1 TFT at
only 1200 including! 

Although it looks a bit tacky.

Although the HP presario looks very good it doesn't have a serial port so I
can't connect to cisco boxes etc.

Tushar

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 09:38:41AM +0100, Martyn Drake wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 2002 08:28:34 +0100 Huw Lynes wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 02 May 2002 19:45, Tushar Joshi wrote:
> > > Does anyone have any experience with the Sony Vaio FX501/601
> > > laptop ranges and have any opinion of them?
> > >
> > > I've decided to buy a FX604 after my last one got stolen
> > > but there are so many out there it's hard to choose.
> > 
> > Sony Viaos are my leading cause of non-work related suport. We have
> > had three people have parts failures on their machines so far this
> > year. From what they have told me Sony's support really sucks
> 
> And just to add to this - Red Hat 7.2 incorrectly identifies the
> graphics card on my Vaio and have to install the right X Server
> manually.
> 
> I've also ran into problems with the HD timing out a fair few times
> which doesn't happen at all under Windows, and thus stuck with Windoze
> on that machine for the forseeable future.
> 
> I'd also avoid Advent machines (those sold by PC World) - they're even
> worse than Vaios.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Martyn
> 
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