Sony Vaio FW11L

Sony Vaio FX405

The Sony Vaio FX405 has a extended 15" monitor which will cost you more but is great for watching films and viewing photos on with sonys excellent array of inbuilt software and hardware. With a 1 ghz processor it may seem to be a bit slowlow but it infact very very fast. It has 256kb of memory which can be ...

Sony Vaio FX501

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

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 ...