Sony Vaio FX501

A great value all-in-one laptop (372 words)
by neepheid - written on 29/04/02, updated on 29/04/02 (Useful, 778 readings)
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carried away. The first one I received had a problem that made the keyboard and touchpad work intermittently. Thankfully, it was quickly swapped out by the retailer. Sony have now acknowledged the problem and corrected in a BIOS upgrade. Any new machines should have this update already. The positive aspects of this laptop are as follows. The screen is excellent. It is a 14.1" TFT that is both crisp and bright. There is lots of built in hardware, including LAN and modem, 2 USB ports, Firewire, 2 PCMCIA slots, TV and VGA out, DVD drive, floppy drive (the trend is towards removing them these days - a mistake I feel). You cannot fault the value for money - ...

Sony Vaio FX501

Power without the Price (520 words)
by Herc2ules - written on 15/03/02, updated on 15/03/02 (Very useful, 1044 readings)
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my old £3000 laptop but with a (much) smaller price tag. I finally parted with my (not so) hard earned cash and placed my order for the Sony PCG-FX501. The laptop (or notebook - depending on your vocab) boasts some impressive stats: 14.1 TFT Screen 1 Ghz AMD Processor 20Gb Hard drive DVD Player 256 Meg Ram 8Mb ATI Graphic card (1024 x 780) Windows XP came preinstalled with the machine along with a whole host of other software (but missing Microsoft Office). Obviously when you purchase a laptop you make concessions on the performance and particuarly graphics compared to a desktop PC. But so far I have had no problems with the quality of the image ...