Sony Vaio Z600HEK

Sony Vaio AR51E

expected would happen, but it did. Sony include a lot of their own programs pre-loaded on the laptop, mainly entertainment programs. I made the mistake of trying out Vaio Movie Story, and discovered that this kicked in another Sony program called intelligent analyzer and another called media content importer . These 2 together started indexing and analysing all my pictures and movies that I had transferred from my old HP, and they took so much memory and CPU power that at times the laptop would not respond to any commands, not even Task Manager would run. When I finally got Task manager open, I was able to use the resource monitor to find the cause of my grief and ...

Sony Vaio Z600TEK

Being given a Sony Vaio is like aquiring a work of art. Design as well as functionality is at the heart of the Vaio. The Z600TEK is a master of the functionality within the smallest area possible. The array of connection options allow this to be a workhorse of any notebook arena. Connections for memorystick, firewire, usb, ...

Sony Vaio PCG C1XS

Having already owned both the Sony Vaio Picturebook PCG-C1X (266Mhz) and the PCG-C1XS (P2/400Mhz), I eagerly awaited for Sony to release the new PCG-C1VN model. While I was initially leary of the use of the Transmeta Crusoe chip, I figured Sony must know what they are doing. Big mistake! The new machine, while faster in megahertz (400 vs. 600), the new Picturebook is actually SLOWER than the older Pentium II-400Mhz model! (I would estimate about 15-20%; I could actually see the machine pause and think while it did it's internal conversion to Intel instructions). Yes, it does get a little faster on repetitive tasks, but still painfully slow. Again, while on paper the ...