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HomeWorkstationsOpteron-Based WorkstationSony VAIO VGN-AW220J/B 18.4-Inch Laptop (2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 Processor, 4 GB RAM, 400 GB Hard Drive, Blu-ray Drive, Vista Premium) Black |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Very Nice! Jun 23, 2009
By Hanh Nguyen
I would not rate a 5-Star because the Eject button on the keyboard failed to eject the CD/DVD drive but this is relatively minor. Otherwise great laptop. I suggest the following accessories:
- Sumdex carrying case CKN-003. Although it's rated to fit up to 17", it's the slimmest, lightest an best designed case I found for the Sony AW 18.4" after a month's worth of research. The power adapter can be stored in the front compartment along with extra hardware such as an extra CD/DVD writer, and still maintains an extremely slim fit.
- Get a TV tuner. Mine was a Hauppauge 950Q but any comparable tuner would do. It is worth noting that the 950Q software interface failed to load the digital channels to Win Vista 64-bit, the tuner itself works great with Windows Vista Media center 64-bit.
I hope this balances out the review on May 19, 2009 which brought up two items which are very insignificant and misleading.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
All good but Vista 64bit sucks Jun 18, 2009
By Bill Meng
Pros:
Great display
Full size keyboard
Cons:
Vista 64bit. Many programs don't work with 64bit. You have to buy them again for 64bit or they're not even available.
No drivers for XP, so you won't be able to us XP.
Battery life is short, and the power adapter is hot.
Update:
Vista 64bit really sucks. Lot of trouble with IE 7. Then upgraded to IE8. Still problem. Freeze on many websites. I really want to use XP, but Sony doesn't have drivers for XP, not even Vista 32bit.
Great performance Jun 06, 2010
By Wesley Eubanks
I bought this about a year ago and as far as the performance go it works great. I can only complain about the lack of any accessories for this laptop.
 Very nice Feb 04, 2010
By MK
I like that it has the # pad and full 1080P screen and HDMI HD out + dolby 5.1 out. Makes it so you can hook it right into anyones home theator and play a blue ray over it. Runs both Vista and Windows 7 with no issues.
I would say its the perfect laptop except it does have 3 small issues.
1) It has vista blah...now it has windows 7 on it :)
2) It is battery hungry, but then with that screen I would expect it to be
3) The video card despite being a Nvidia 9600 gt can't use the nvidia drivers from [...], you have to get ones co-written by sony/nvidia which only seem to get updated about 1 time a year.
Good, soild product! Aug 31, 2009
By Brian J. Bork
"Stormhawk"
A long time ago, I used to have a VAIO desktop computer. It ran great, it had everything I wanted and it runs to this day ... When I want to use an older processor and motherboard. But I purchased this new VAIO laptop as a "part-time business use, part-time personal use" machine. And boy does it serve that role well!
Pros: Best screen (resolution and size), good (but not great) hardware components, Blu Ray!, very usuable - right out of the box, good quality sound (but... see the cons)
Though I do not have many complaints about this product, there are some things I wish worked better.
Cons: Speakers - while sounding good - are very quiet, short power cord from the brick compared to other laptops, Wireless NIC drivers have some problems, heavy and bulky (but no more so than other laptops in this size), doesn't come with Vista Ultimate, my preferred OS until 7 is released.
The only on going problem with this machine is that the wireless NIC drivers have trouble connecting to the VPN at my office. The built-in speakers are very quiet, though very nice sounding, during movie playback. If you don't have good headphones, you might want to consider add-on external speaker(s). Other than that, this machine runs like a champ and I hope will give me many years of good service.
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