[Sarah Barracuda]

What do you think of Sony Vaio’s? Ive never owned one before so I figured I’d try something new. I want a 14 inch screen, at least 640gb hard drive space, the one that has a 4gb of memory I can upgrade that pretty cheap and make it an 8gb..with an intel core i5 processor..just dont know how reliable Sony is..I checked out the HP’s yesterday and they just looked cheaply made. Dont want to buy something that I’ll end up having to return a month later

[dennisw]

What do you think of Sony Vaio’s? Ive never owned one before so I figured I’d try something new.

I have heard good and bad about them through the years. My friend has a 17" HP laptop for a year...it has given him no problems. My family has bought from Dell refurbished and done OK. Dell warranties are good with at home (they come to you) service. You don't mail your computer to Sony which I think is the case with them. I could be wrong and maybe a place like BestBuy will repair it in their store

1. 500gb hard drive or less might be OK for you. The only reason to have large hard drives is to copy DVDs onto them for later viewing or to copy home videos onto them. Though blue ray movies can take up 25gb space I am told
2. 4gb memory is good enough for a secondary computer
3. 6gb or 8gb memory better for a primary computer
4. I open up lots of Firefox and Chrome windows & tabs and find 8gb much better for that    (I upgraded my desktop from 4gb to 8gb)
5. Intel Core i3-2350M Processor is good enough for the internet and "Office" applications and most other things
6. But get i5 if you like......
7. make sure you get the second generation of i3 or i5 (most new laptops will have it but doublecheck)
8. just my thought