<p>Anyone have a Vaio for college? Pros or cons? Majoring in business, it seems to hav everything, including a built in webcam that the lenovo doesn't have.</p>
<p>Elaine</p>
<p>For business, you don’t need a powerful computer. Basically you want to run MS Office. Sony’s are good. They are available at BestBuy, and you can have them serviced there.</p>
<p>Overpriced.</p>
<p>For what you get in terms of specs, they’re at least $50-100 more than other brands. They also have shorter battery lives. But they do last well.</p>
<p>theres nothing special about vaios in general. they do tend to be overpriced, but prices tend to equalize at brick and mortar business like best buy. its a solid brand. not many bad things to say about them, but their lower end consumer line products dont have anything unique about them.</p>
<p>Everything said is essentially true. I just bought the Vaio Z (higher end model) for quite a lumpsum, but it’s a really solid computer and worth every penny. It has huge battery life (5+ hrs), excellent build quality, tactile keyboard, an incredible screen (1600x900, by far the best resolution on a screen of its class), massive power (2.66 GHz dual core on the one I got), sleek looks, and EXTREMELY light. I like to think of it as a netbook on roids’ :). The one major negative of course is the price, but if you have the money to shell out, you won’t regret it for a second.</p>
<p>their higher end laptops are basically the macs of the windows world.</p>
<p>Oh yeah: If you order direct from Sony, you can support the US manufacturing industry because they actually put together those laptops in California. (I know, it’s weird to point out)</p>
<p>I believe they’re also having a sale right now, so those Sony’s are a better value than they normally are.</p>
<p>Right now Vaios are priced very well during this promotion. I was able to get the FW series for $1,400 which included 3 year warranty, case, flash drive, and a very nice laptop. To get the extra $250 just add a warranty and two accessories. I shopped around and found that the FW was the cheapest compared to every major retailer with the same specs. The only problem with Vaios might be their support as i think it is not the greatest and you need to get rid of the bloatware.</p>