Good looking, and quality for its price (Sony Vaio NR11M/S)

Member Name: MrBucket

Product:	Sony Vaio NR11M/S
Date:	07/02/08 (115 review reads)
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Advantages: good looking, quite fast, large amount of storage

Disadvantages: crashes sometimes

This laptop feels very solid, with the screen being crystal clear and the keyboard very easy to type on. The sound quality is also very good compared to other laptops i have owned.

It comes preinstalled with vista which is good looking and also makes life much easier when u learn all the new features it provides. I particuarly like the position of the SD and Memory Stick Pro card readers, although i feel it would have been much better if an XD card reader was included (possible because my camera uses an XD card); this is not particularly big problem though as i can just easily use the USB cable. Another part of the laptop i liked was the position of the USB ports (On the sides near the front), as they are very easily accessible to me without having to juggle the whole thing around to find the ports on the back.

The laptop is quite fast although does speed up quite significantly once the bundled vaio software is removed. The laptop is also very quiet meaning i can leave it on overnight sometimes and it wont be constantly waking me up.

The boot up speed is also incredably fast compared to past PC's and Laptops i have used, meaning it is no longer as much of a problem after i have installed a new program. Sometimes however i seem to get small program errors, programs not reponding etc....

The onboard graphics card isnt the best ever, but they never are on laptops. I was able to play several games quite easily with very little lag, however, i found that anything else running at the same time as some of my games (such as MSN or music in the background) the game would sometimes crash, leaving me to start it up again.

I have included the spec of the laptop below:

Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core T2310 - 1.46GHz (x2), 533MHz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache
RAM: 2GB DDR2-533MHz (2 x 1GB)
Hard Drive: 160GB Serial ATA
Screen: 15.4" Widescreen TFT (1280x800) with X-Black Technology
Optical Drive: DVD±RW Super Multi Double Layer
Graphics: Mobile Intel GMA X3100
Wireless LAN: 802.11b/g
Bluetooth: No
Weight: 2.8kg
Warranty: 1 Year Collect and Return
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium
Fast Ethernet 10/100
Firewire Port
Card reader (SD Memory Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo)

Id say If you are looking for a computer to do general computing things (like MSN, browsing, music, storing photos, playing videos....) then this is the perfect laptop.

Summary: for the price and features, this is an almost perfect laptop

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