Sony VAIO VGN-A290 Review

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Sony VAIO VGN-A290
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Guest's Review of Sony VAIO VGN-A290 Laptop

24th Mar 2008

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
  • Screen Quality
    5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4.5 stars
  • Time Laptop Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Battery Life
    2 stars
Good Points

docking station; speakers - inputs/outputs
big beautiful screen adjusts to lighting conditions
runs continuously w/o any (real) issues


Bad Points

battery life sucks. bring your plug/adapter.
some issues w/iPod software - had to re-image. May have been my fault. jury's still out on that one.
she is a big girl, but no regrets. worth her weight in processors.
CD/DVD RW was acting funny for a couple of months and then just started being good. go figure.
seeing all the wires on rear of docking station is getting old.


General Comments

owned since 2K4, she's just about 4 yrs old. SONY really doesn't do packages like this anymore (unless I missed it) with the docking station - for the money. Recently purchased new FZ premium notebook. still like my big girl. she's a solid (NO FAT) performer. I'm mostly ppt, jpeg, and wav's. A290 still surfs like a hawaiian, hardline or wireless. Wanted to partition the HD w/Vista on one and XP on the other. SONY rep said it would be a bad idea. Vista doesn't run everything I need it to. Oh well. I've never had half the problems most my co-workers have with their proprietary brands. I was gonna give her to someone in the family. No way. Now that I can compare her side by side with a new FZ premium notebook, no way.

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