Customer Reviews

Sony VAIO PCG-K25 Laptop (2.8 GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive, DVD+/-RW Drive)

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Buyers watch out for private sellers
There are a lot of private sellers trying to rip you off .prices look cheap when you send the money you wont get the product or your money back.

Look for the specific items that scammers try to do:

1. Look at the seller's id they look like some what irrelevant. Example (amazon_cheap)(Sony_Amazon)
2. Look at the sellers rating it says just launched because the sellers like to create many e mails as they can.
3. In the sellers comments they will say like "please contact me before buying. Otherwise I won't send you the item".
4. When you send the e mail to them they will say "we are a small company in Romania or UK or Spain trying to evolve to sell outside the country". They will say send money through western union. When I get the money you will get the notebooks with in 2 business days.
5. They will send detailed sellers address where to send the money western union (Spain). I said "I know the address in Spain can I come and pay to that address" he said "I will do only through online" this is cheater.


When you send money through western union you won't get your money back.

Escrow and Amazon secure payment are the trusted payment.

I got an e mail from a seller he said "I will get transaction only through Amazon secure payment. I thought he was good seller. Next e mail he wrote "tell me your complete address I will forward the address to Amazon" I gave him my address .

With in 1 day I got a e mail from "Amazon secure payment" from address looked like it was from Amazon, but when I clicked on reply the to address said "(something@yahoo.com) it was not a e mail from Amazon in that message it said Amazon wants you to make payment through western union. I wrote the email to Amazon they said we will not allow any one to pay through Amazon these are fake e mails trying to rip peoples money.

I use my laptop at least 3 to 4 hours a day, and regularly travel between work, home, and school. I just bought this laptop and really enjoy the speed and large screen it affords. The built-in wireless network card works well, and has an "off" switch so you can turn it off when you aren't using it.

My only caveat is that the backlight for the LCD died after only 11 days of use and had to have it replaced. I haven't had any problems several months later, and am still satisfied. I've played games (though not the latest releases), developed software, and run office applications successfully on this machine.

Nothing screwy so far. The X-brite screen really stands out and makes everything so much sharper.

I use it 12+ hours a day, with alot of burning DVD's and editing.

I opted for the K-25 over the K-27 because it is essentialy the same but 2-3 hundred more for the CPU.

My only complaint is the ports are not covered, my old Grx series had "flaps" that covered the USB/Firewire/etc... to keep out dust and debris.


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First off, the monitor is absolutely stunning.

On the more substantial, i bought the item in August and by September, I was getting the "Blue Screen of Death" on a regular basis. Technical Support was not much help. Of course, I realized this was more than just the new computer adjusting and by the time i brought it back to the store i bought it from, the 30 days ran out, so i had to ship my machine back to Sony.

They fixed it fine and in less than 10 days, but 30 days later, I was beginning to have spotty network issues and the cd/dvd drive died completely. After many hours on the phone with tech support, i am once again without my very expensive laptop for the second time in the five months since ive owned it.

When it works it is fine, but i would not recommend this computer because it has too many problems (i have since discovered many of the unhappy sony vaio owners) and you can get a decent computer for several hundred dollars less.

if they offered me a refund, or to buy me a lower end version of a Mac or even a Dell, i would take it in a minute.

I originally bought this for several reasons, and admittedly i was seduced by the screen and the relative style compared with other laptops available at the time.
Several thousand reboots later, and after spending many many hours trying to make sony's proprietary pre-loaded crapware play nice or get off, I have given up. This computer crashes all the time, does not play nice with Firefox, iTunes, or several security suites. Even after hours online and on the phone with tech support, no good- the beautiful screen is not worth it if all you see are error messages and reboot screens. It runs *extremely hot* the fan operates all the time, it is noisy, the battery stopped taking a charge worthy of unplugging it about 6 months after I purchased it (even with careful management to try to extend the battery life). I would take my old dell P2 back in a heartbeat in trade for this thing. Because of my experience with this heap, I will never buy another Sony product again.

Nice system overall.
I'd take this over the K23 or K27.

Bad Computer................BLUE SCREEN MANIA.
"BREATHES HEAVY"...........OVERALL.BAD COMPUTER....DONT DO IT TO YOUR SELF.