Editorial Product Review:

Item Description:
Includes: lithium-ion battery, AC adapter, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition with SP2, Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition, Quicken 2005 New User Edition, WinDVD, Works 8.0, Office 2003 60-day trial (Student/Teacher Edition), Roxio DigitalMedia SE,&more.Sony Vaio FS VGN-FS742/W Notebook Computer - This laptop computer combines advanced multimedia features with the tools you need for everyday computing on the road. With the 15.4' widescreen LCD, you can enjoy DVD movies the way they were meant to be seen. Or make your own DVD creations with the built-in DVD writer and included original Sony software. 80GB 4200RPM HDD 512MB of PC3200 DDR2 SDRAM (expandable up to 2GB) Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 with 128MB of shared memory (memory is shared with the main system's RAM) Double Layer DVD Writer - (write speeds) up to 2.4x Double Layer DVD+R, 8x DVD-R, 8x DVD+R, 4x DVD-RW, 4x DVD+RW, 24x CD-R,&10x CD-RW Double Layer DVD Writer - (read speeds) up to 8x DVD-ROM&24x CD-ROM 56k v.90 Data/Fax Modem Built-in Stereo Speakers Ports - 10/100 Ethernet, VGA Out, 3 USB 2.0, 4-pin Firewire,&Printer Built-in Memory Stick(R) Media Slot - supports Memory Stick, Memory Stick(R) PRO,&Memory Stick(R) DUO media 1 PCMCIA Type I/II Card Slot with CardBus support External Color - White



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Accessories available:

• Quicken Deluxe 2009
• Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Standard
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009
• Norton Internet Security 2009
• Memorex 700MB/80-Minute 52x CD-R Media (100-Pack Spindle)

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Customer Rating: - It's VAIO
For last couple of years, this laptop is doing good. I am happy with this VAIO series. It's VAIO, It's the best!

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Customer Rating: - Never Again
This was my first laptop and vow to never buy another Sony VAIO again. Like most others I had problems from early up. The clock stopped keeping the correct time & date and I would always have to reset it each time I turn on, the magically corrcted itself after about 4 months. The "J" refusesed to work after a while now it just sticks whenever it feels like till I hit backspace or esc to stop it. Finally it decides to shut down and give a dull orange screen. I'v learnt my lesson... it's good to have places like Amazon to read reviews on products (sorry I didn't read about this one before).

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Customer Rating: - Great - until it died
This was a great machine until it died on us. We owned ours only one and half years when the system board (motherboard) died. Come to think of it, the internal wireless card stopped working after only one year. And to make matters worse, our only option was to send it to San Diego for repairs(per Sony). It wasn't worth it for us. Get the extended warranty.

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Customer Rating: - Beware--Sony has a problem with bad hard drives
I've seriously regretted not ponying up the extra cash for an IBM or Apple. I was sold on the great screen, but have had problems ever since.

A warranty is getting me a new hard drive, and the customer service person I spoke to said that Sony has had major issues with faulty hard drives.

The Sony software that they load on top of the operating system slows it down and cuts your space. It also conflicts with Microsoft updates. This caused problems with my audio and other drivers. Sadly, standard warranties do not cover the operating system (they consider that software), and getting these problems fixed has been a headache and an unwelcome bill.

Speaking of audio, the speakers are so low that you can't use this computer to play music or a DVD, unless you're right up at the screen or have the headphones in.