Sony VAIO VGN-FS830/W 15.4" Laptop Review
Sony VAIO VGN-FS830/W 15.4" Laptop Review from Jayakumar Jay. beautiful screen, pitiful system, The good :
0) very beaufiful, cool screen. Nice ergonomics and cool white keyboard. Rugged, reliable and strong.
The bad :
1) No multimedia keys. Though it initially looks smart, it depends on service exes, they work slow.Worse is they make the system slow and occupy RAM a lot.
2) Heavy. The weight shown excludes battery. The basic battery is more than a pound and would last hardly an hour. Sony will rip you off $150 for a better battery.
3) Poor softwares installed and support. They make system run even slower and if you install better system by yourself, you are screwed. Device drivers, brightness, volume, 802 wirelss, network interfaces all are gone. You must download one by one (but without net connection as it did not work for me).
4) The system won’t allow you to create recovery disk. You have to buy from sony.
5) wireless will drop connection every 30 minutes except for very few routers.
6) Slow despite 1 GB ram installed. All programs run slow. DVD writer copied a movie DVD for 5 (278 minutes) hours.
7) No SD/MMC card slot. You are encouraged to buy only sony products with strange memory stick.
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