Customer Reviews

Sony VAIO VPC-W111XX/P 10.1-Inch Pink Netbook - 2.5+ Hour Battery Life

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I agree with the other reviewer about the fan cooler problem. I have owned this netbook since October. I started experiencing problems with the fan in December. I sent the computer in for repairs and am experiencing the same problem again. I own/ have owned 2 other VAIO's and love Sony products, but this one is turning into a huge disappointment. Aside from the fan, everything else has worked great.

this netbook is definitely something we purchased for plenty of reasons. one was cause its a Sony. Secondly it works well over wireless with the playstation and the screen size and resolution is far superior than other netbooks on the market.

it's definitely more expensive than the other netbooks but its definitely worth it!!!

I bought several netbooks and this by far is the best. I would prefer black, but I choose the white over brown. It won't be long when they add a CD drive. If you need additional storage space an external hard drive will suffice. I am a name brand person and Sony held their name on this one. Its worth the extra few dollars. The hard drive and picture quality is superb. I do alot of traveling and this little bad boy is a perfect size for that and the appearance is none other, hey its a VAIO! I am a U.S. Contractor and taken this to the sand box (Iraq) and its been outside the wire many times and its built tough like the MRAPs. I do suggest buying a HP sleeve for it cause it fits perfectly and the neoprene is thicker.

For the price, and what its meant for, its a great little netbook. I can take it anywhere, it pretty much fits in my purse and the screen and the keyboard are a nice size--I had no problems adapting from my regular laptop keyboard at all. However, my internet FREQUENTLY (I mean sometimes it will happen 3-4 times in an hour) goes out, citing a DNS lookup failure, and I believe it has something to do with the extremely inadequate fan/cooling system. It only seems to happen when its plugged in, so I guess the design team thought users would only be using this for four hour stints--however I use this for the majority of my browsing, which includes using it for school work which can sometimes extend beyond the four hour battery life.

Other than that, I thought the 1 gb memory was a little slow, so I bought a 2 gb upgrade and it works much more efficiently.

This was a great purchase. My wife needed a netbook that had XP and not Windows 7 for work (please don't saturate me with "solutions," we've been through all of that already. long boring story, we'll skip that part). I knew I wanted to get a new netbook and not a used one. I was glad when I found this. First of all, this little laptop is beautiful. The white with the silver vaio insignia is very stylish. The material does not collect fingerprints and although I was afraid a white might look dirty quickly that has not been the case. The screen is crisp and vivid for an older XP model machine. The touchpad that you use might be a wee bit sensitive but my wife is more used to using laptops and likes it just fine. The keys on the keyboard are spaced in such a way that even in spite of the smallness of the netbook it does not feel cramped and it is very user friendly. I am a Mac man at heart, but if you ever need to get a PC lap laptop I highly reccomend Sony Vaios. They cost a little more but its worth it.

Dont buy this model of VAIO i have one and it has a fancooler problem that will damaged your laptop/ No la compraria si fuera tu, compre una por aqui y me salio malisima, el abanico suena terrible, de nada se calienta y se apaga, eso te danara el disco duro y solo te quedaras con una cajita muy bonita y atractiva. A la vez es una compu lentisima, no vale la pena!