Sony VAIO VGC-M1 review
Sony's seems determined to keep pushing this all-in-one desktop PC thing. Yeah, Apple's proven the concept still has legs with the new G5 iMac, the new VAIO VGC-M1 has one fatal design flaw for a desktop: they keep the keyboard attached, rather than going for the obvious move of making all the peripherals wireless. So you might just be better off with regular a laptop than this compact desktop PC, though the VGC-M1 does take up a minimal amount of desk space, packing in a 15.4-inch X-black LCD (which displays one pretty picture) with a 1280x800 resolution, a 3.06Ghz Pentium 4 processor, 512MB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, double-layer capable DVD±RW recorder, and Sony's GigaPocket TV tuner. BIOS was pretty down on Sony's use of an aging 64MB Radeon 9200 video card (making it a weak 3D gaming machine) and the glaring lack of Bluetooth and WiFi, which is surprising because Sony is pushing digital media convergence.
