This is the first non Apple computer I have purchased in 5-6 years. I needed a Windows machine and have been having just a terrible experience with Apple's hardware lately. My 21.5 inch iMac for example keeps getting burn marks and dust behind the glass and I'm absolutely sick of sending it in for servicing. Hence the VAIO, otherwise I probably would have bought another MacBook Pro and installed Windows on it.
I've only been using the machine for a few days, and I quite like it. Out of box experience was a bit trashy and I had to manually un-install a lot of bloat ware. Some if it still remains, like the TrueSuite finger print crap. Other than that the restore disk creation etc. went smoothly and was not an issue.
The hardware is nice but I don't like the screen. I mean its alright, maybe I'm not used to matte screens any more but the viewing angles of this thing are definitely not good. I had read on a few forums that fan noise is a problem, its not for me and I compile 50 thousand line code bases in Visual Studio 2010 all day long and it works really well. I really, really, really like the keyboard. The track pad is smooth and I'm actually beginning to prefer the edge based single finger scrolling over the MacBook's two finger method. The build quality of the machine is good and it doesn't heat up unlike some of the MacBooks I've owned.
Over all I am quite happy with it.
Hey Anuj, great feedback on this machine! how can you describe your experience with it over the last 6 months? I also intend to run VS 2010 and SQL Server 2008 (Dev Edition) on it, and just wanted to know if the fan noise is really as annoying as some forums make them out to be.
ReplyDeleteI haven't used it this machine for a while now, I'm sort of travelling and all I have on me right now is a Macbook Air. But I did take the VAIO to Dubai for 2 months where this was my exclusive machine. I never had any fan noise trouble nor was heat ever a problem. It worked really well and I was writing code on it almost all the time, including running a few virtual machines.
ReplyDeleteThe only problems are possibly the screen which does not have very good viewing angles. Other than that its a good machine, and its really light and compact.
good to know. the vertical viewing angles, right? is it that bad where you have to keep adjusting the lid to get a "sweet spot"?
ReplyDeleteNot that bad.
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