VAIO X spotted in champagne, propped up by extended battery, ripped apart
By Paul Miller 
posted Oct 7th 2009 7:56PM
posted Oct 7th 2009 7:56PM
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Sony has a tendency to build notebooks that seem incredibly beautiful and luxurious ... until you touch them and realize how flimsy and cheap they feel.
I'm using a VAIO FW,
And i've owned a vaio CS, one dell and two HPs
and I can easily say they are the best built laptops i've used.
If you have any technical skill you can get your VAIO running like a champ.
first thing you do is reformat. after a year and a half, i'm currently running 68 processes and i've never got a blue screen
My windows 7 boot time is under 20 seconds.
I'm not sure how removing bloatware makes the flimsy, cheap plastic feel any better. But OK.
I also don't see how some unnamed Dells and HPs are supposed to be a benchmark. I was shopping between a MacBook and a Vaio BZ ... and I was sold on the Vaio, until I touched it.
Well, you're still wrong. Sony laptops are anything but flimsy and cheap-feeling. Expensive? Yes. Flimsy? No.
Yeah, that's why the palmrests flexed and creaked when I pressed down on them gently, right?
if your only complaint is that the palmrest bends when you press down. Then thats rather week.
Plus from that statement, I'm assuming you've never actually owned one, so your not really the biggest well of knowledge when it comes to sony products
I dont want to spend time pitching you a VAIO,
but the only thing i'm saying is that I've NEVER had a problem with my FW and CS,
they work great, well built screens, keyboard very durable, extremely reliable,
I've never had to call tech support or send it in for repair.
I would agree on their 15+ inch laptops because most of those feel flimsy unless it's one of Apple's unibody models.
However, the SR, SZ, and Z series are incredibly nice machines. The Z series is probably the best quality machine I've ever touched. I purchased several sony SZ series laptops at my company and they were the only laptops we had that never broke. Every Dell we had broke. Every single one.
... but then again, Dell's service and support is incredibly easy to use and responsive. I don't know about Sony's but I never had to use it. :)
"Realise".
Your spelling error notwithstanding, you're still talking rubbish.
Surely having to have a wedge ruins the point of having such a thin laptop? It really doesn't look nearly as slim with that giant block haha.
It's okay since it's included.
You can then find a macbook pro user on a plane or someplace and change the battery in front of him/her. Make sure you rub it in.
You don't need to use the wedge. It's just an extended battery. The regular 3-hour battery fits in perfectly.
It's really not thick, have a better look, there's a lot of space between the battery itself and the laptop, Sony did this to create a comfortable position if using the laptop for a long time.
Sony laptops are so damn beautiful btw, I really want that X, but I don't need one. Damn that IS frustrating, damn you Sony .....DAMN YOU!!!
Aero Basic theme...
*barf*
I'm sure Aero can be switched on, I know for a fact that it works on an Acer Aspire One A150.
You're right. I thought the GMA500 didn't support Aero.
The offspring of a drunken hookup between an industrial designer and a thermal engineer. The ergonomics expert just likes to watch.
Well I'm guessing it could probably do an average of 5 or 5 1/2 hours. I don't believe 12, unless you're not pushing the X to full potential. I'll have to read on customer reviews to better understand.
O_O 14 hour battery well that battery must be......BIG
Dear Santa...
vga? really? are you serious?
When you consider the weedy graphics..
Given the highly portable nature if this it isn't designed to be hooked up to a screen anyway; the VGA port is probably more for hooking up to a projector than anything else.
I'd only get one of these if I could also afford something beefier to keep on the desk with this purely as a runabout.
Yes, look it up sometime.
Hi. Serious, Yahoo Serious. Nice to meet you.
Screen edges. Thick. Hideous.
Sony must be insane. The bezel looks terrible and the battery life sans bulk-i-fier sucks.
I've bought Sony for a while and still think the Vaio Z is the best combination of speed, looks, battery life and weight (very important and seemingly forgotten... I'd rather have lighter than thinner) on the market but their new products are far too expensive vs. the market.
how thick (or thin) is this thing?
Exactly 17 units.
That is what she said.
12.2mm
I think that this is a good idea. If you're going to a presentation or just want to have it to look up directions, just leave the battery behind. If you're going on a plane ride, take the battery and you get it propped up for more comfortable typing.
I really love the use of the battery as a laptop stand. More manufacturers should do this.
Not as thin and it is less powerful than a Macbook Air, and it doesn't have the best operating system on the planet, Mac OSX. Any smart person would choose the Macbook Air over this crappy VAIO.
Downranking feeds the trolls, morons.
I like. A LOT.
how is the price of $1300 for an atom "welcome" ???
hmm...seems like the Adamo XPS is as thin as the Sony. If it has better specs, it may be the one to get (though it has bigger screen prob worse battery life)
Why is SONY still using that same old cheap feeling material on their new expensive laptops? Overstock but short on cash or what?
aw, they just HAD TO print "DC IN 10.5V" on the top case next to Escape key... Just when you think finally a super clean laptop without Intel, Windows, Energy star stickers, they had to ruin it. Come on.....
You know you would never see something like that make it through Apple's testing department.
Because voltage never mattered anyway.
So what is the estimated price on this Vaio? Looking over previous Engadget posts they initially stated they weren't happy with the price but above they seem to have changed their tune.
Vaio's certainly ain't flimsy, I've had an FZ11L for about two years now and apart form a slightly worn spacebar it's still in excellent condition, it's never given me any issues................................ touchwood :)
Ahem...... just noticed it 4 items down the page. D'oh.
Well, it sure is beautiful. If it doesn't flex like a motherfucker.
The battery choices are fine, though I'd still take the flat snap on battery design that makes it thicker overall rather than this wedge thing.
And they messed up the keyboard. The right shift key looks kind of unacceptable. Just push the cursor keys down a row fer crying out loud!
If it really does have an Atom, then its not worth paying this sort of money. Even with a CULV it would still be an interesting question if it was worth the price. But an Atom, no thanks.
Still, it sure is beautiful.
There's an exclusive UK review in December's PCPro which arrived on my doormat yesterday.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/laptops/352255/sony-vaio-x-series
http://www.laptopbatteriesinc.co.uk/ Sony Laptop Battery
http://www.laptopbatteriesinc.co.uk/sony-laptop-battery-c-11.html Sony vaio Laptop Battery