Sony VAIO VPC-CW13FX/R 14-Inch Red Laptop

5 comments

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   Talker Yair on December 7, 2009 at 3:00 am

   The biggest disadvantage of this product is that the screen is too reflective, it shines and it is very difficult to see when you have any light sourcearround it.

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   slick on December 7, 2009 at 4:00 am

   I needed a computer. My old box simply wouldn’t turn-on following the move to my new apartment. Why? I don’t know. Flipped the switch, no power, so I bought a new power supply, installed it and that’s all I got was power; nothing on the lcd screen and two greens, a yellow and a red from my gigabyte MB. Okay, so now what? I have always been a desktop fan as they are faster, run cooler and easy to swap components. But I figure laptops are finally coming into their own and occasionally I need portable computing. Besides, I can port out the video to my monitor, get a wireless keyboard, so I don’t mess up the laptop with a coffee spill or some ashes from my smokes.

   So which one? Acer is out there, cheap and well-configured; ASUS is well-received. For some reason I wouldn’t consider an HP. Toshiba, tried and true, it’s true, but nah for some reason. Then I see this Sony and others from the CW series. Heretofore, Sonys have been beyond my price point, but it looks like they want to capture more of the low end market by introducing this line. Looks nice, colors and all. Plus, it’s got everything I wanted: portability as it’s right around 5 lbs, a banging screen as you’d expect from Sony, 4 gigs of RAM which is more than I expected. I also expected and got good workmanship. There are a lot of crappy laptops coming off Chinese assembly lines these days.

   The out of the box experiecne was perfect. Turned it on and I was ready to rock n roll. And so far, so good. I probably could have gotten more for the buck, a faster chip and a bigger hard drive, but I got what I needed and I got it fast so I’m not complaining.

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   C. Roousey on December 7, 2009 at 4:17 am

   I love this laptop but whenever you move with it in your lap the AC becomes disconnected. When it is on battery power the screen dims about 20% and when I first stated computing with it the screen would go dim, bright, dim, bright. I thought it was really smart and just dimmed because of the bright light I was in at the time. I hope sony in able to fix it (sent it back today), I do not want to have to research another laptop.

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   Gu Yue on December 7, 2009 at 5:53 am

   This baby runs so quite!(in comparison with my previous laptop, Vaio is superb!) Out of box experience is great! lightweight!

   Downside: battery hour is only 2.5hours, and not even 1 minute more!(don’t try your luck if you need a long battery hour laptop!#
   
   surface smugs easily, but perhaps I should buy a white one, so it’s not that obvious#mine is black#
   
   motive eye not as good as I expect, but those see me on skype says it’s ok.
   
   not enough USB #only 3, even less than my previous “old tank”)
   
   shipping is one day late! (but no big deal if you are not as eager to have it as I did!)

   Hope the price won’t drop too quick, I hate to see whatever laptop I bought drop the price soon after I get it.

5. 

   K. G. Lemke on December 7, 2009 at 6:41 am

   Runs cool (Temp), I hope it will not burn up like my HP’s (four) have done.
   
   Glad after much reading & research I bought it for my wife.
   
   Hope it keeps running well.
   
   Enjoy the change of color to red from the typical black case.
   
   Would not look forward to making any calls to Sony for tech help as past contacting
   
   them proved very unpleasant. This is reason for the four star rating vs a five star.
   
   Service from Amazon was All (5) Star Plus.