I bought the Sony vaio a year and a half ago thinking that I would be best off buying a strong brand laptop. It wasnt cheap but looked nice with a nice keyboard design and good specification. Everything was fine until after 6 months then the system became painfully slow at booting then after a few more weeks would'nt boot at all (hard drive fail). I sent the laptop off to sony who in all fairness did fix and send back but this isnt great when you use your pc for work everyday. Ive now had the laptop for another 3 months and am having to type this on a seperate keyboard because the keyboard on the laptop has decided to fail. In short, the system is expensive, not reliable and extremely slow in booting. I wont be buying sony again.