Sony Vaio AR11S

Top Laptop . Very user friendly and easy to use. Plenty of processing power too, so you ll never be found short when running programs. There is lots of space, standard 100GB hard drive, and this can easily t be increased. As can the memory, which is 1GB as standard. The screen is lovely too, very clear and great for watching ...

Sony Vaio A617S

a large-screened portable. It even ran a few games quite well (F.E.A.R, Half-Life 2). With the memory-stick slot on the front I was able to quickly transfer photographs from my Sony digital camera etc, and I was happy. I found that Sony, irritatingly, had partitioned the slightly meagre 80Gb HDD into two equal parts, so my installed OS partition was rapidly approaching full, even though I store most of my data separately. Then I discover that I cannot update the drivers to the video card (Radeon Mobility X600 - which was outdated even when this machine came to market). I had to use third-party driver software to get more push from this unit, a fact which makes me highly ...

Sony Vaio A617M

tv programmes. The only downside to the Vaio is that the battery life isn t all that good. Although admittedly the laptop is a bit too big to carry around and transport to my lectures, it makes up for this in its uses. I have used it to write essays, reports and research outlines. It s quick responses and auto-save option means I don t have to worry about losing work or about errors. The vaio also informs me automatically of updates that are available for the programmes I use the most and gives me the option to delete all of my unused items at the push of a button. Given a choice I would have gotten a vaio years ago and I don t think I will ever be able to give this one ...