Customer Reviews

Sony VAIO VGN-CR425E/B 14.1-inch Laptop (2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 Processor, 3 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium) Black

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1 star:		(1)

 

 

Sony always supplies products with high standard of quality. I am very satisfied with mine notebook Vaio. I recommend.

This is my 4th Vaio product. I have purchased three desktop models over the last 12 years and been satisfied with all of them and they are all functional today with a few upgrades of course. Now this is my first Vaio laptop and it is perfect as far as I'm concerned. The size, weight and apperance are perfect. It feels solid and is a great performer. I should have bought two because my wife keeps asking to use mine. Now it does come with alot of junk like AOL, Norton, and other marketing _rap. I really wish that they would not put all of that on the computer and use the space for something useful. Buy it.

I bought this laptop to replac another laptop and it has worked great for over 6 months now. Great design and works perfectly. The fingerprint reader works about 95% of the time so remember your password.

Great value for its price. I got it on Amazon deals for about 800 with shipping.

This was a very good deal on GOLD BOX DEAL. I bought it with affordable price and the product functioned overall were outstanding. I loved it so much.

I had waited to get a Sony Vaio because that was what I had before and was totally sold on Sony. Then I saw the great deal on Amazon, just what I was looking for big HD lots of RAM, SOLD!

I bought this because it's a bit smaller than my other laptop (an HP)and am happy with it so far. It starts up faster than the HP. The only negative about it is the sound. I haven't called tech support about it yet and there may be an update that will take care of the problem. So we'll see.

If you're looking for a laptop to replace your bulky home desktop, this is an excellent option. Though Intel's 5550 is not the fastest CPU on the market the whole system performance it's really good. It loads MSOffice quite fast as well as other home/office applications. Web surfing is perfect. The system features USB, firewire, mem stick and bluetooth ports. If you're considering this machine with gamming in mind go for a different model with a dedicated graphics adaptor -like NVIDA or ATI- included, the VAIO VGN-CR415E it's not expandable.

My dad, mom and sister own vaio's (that I use everyday) and i'm next, I love the compatibility sony has through it's electronics with there sony pro duo memory cards, there customer service is great, my dad has had many questions that were answerd fast and he has been happy with them. What I have found is people sometimes blame computer makers for problems with windows ect.. I know alot about computers and windows, sony makes quality computers with fantastic looking designs. tech support is also a must have with a computer purchase and sony makes it easy. my family can't get enough of sony they are simply the best.

I have owned 6-7 laptops in the last 3-4 years and that includes Toshiba, HP, Sony Vaio (2 of them) including this one, and yes, a Mac Book Pro.

I must say that this machine is so far the best one out there, specially considering the machine with the balancing factor of price. Ofcourse a Macbook Pro is better, but with the pricetag on the Macbook Pro, it makes it sort of a killer. So if you got a lot of money, go spend it and get a Macbook Pro. But if you want your money well spent and a very good machine, go for this.

I ordered this Vaio from Amazon over a month ago when it was offered as a Gold Box item. His Compaq mini-tower had died two months prior and I thought a laptop would make more sense for him now.

I am not going to go into the technical mumbo-jumbo because you can see the specs posted in the product description section. Suffices to say that it is adequately supplied with memory, has sufficient disk storage and comes with... hmmm... Vista.

On the computer itself, it is a true laptop, meaning that it's not a TOO large mini-super-computer-emulator but not too small either. The display looks great. The keyboard is only adequate. This model does not come with a mouse so, if you don't want to depend on the little touchpad, make sure you have a USB mouse handy.

Installation... well you turn it on and it works. As it is always the case with 'consumer' computers, as soon as you turn it on, you are bombarded with tons of tutorials and various pre-installed trashware/bloatware - the usual suspects: AOL, Macaffee, Adobe, Norton... It took me a couple of hours to clean it up and leave only the stuff that was not on a 'trial' base and get rid of all the well-meaning spyware.

So, after cleanup, we got ourselves a nice, Wi-Fi enabled, AOL/Explorer/Macaffee/Norton-free little laptop that my son loves using for his personal entertainment and for the occasional school homework - Microsoft Works comes pre-installed for that.

Battery life appears to be adequate but the battery is relatively slow to charge - I guess you can't have everything at the same time.

On the 'cool' factor. The laptop comes equipped with a built-in camera almost invisible, it plays DVDs and, of course it has a microphone. My kid also likes the text-to-speech capability but he's telling me that the computer is more often wrong than right when interpreting his words. The cool stuff that DOES work is the fingerprint authentication. You provide the computer your fingerprints and you no longer need to enter username/password ever again. You simply slide your finger (any finger) over the reader and, you're authenticated.

I never had to call the Sony customer service, so I can't comment on that. I am very much a do-it-yourself type when it comes to computer (never on cars).

Overall rating: I am satisfied with the the laptop but the keyboard could have been better.