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I change my laptop approximately every 2 years, and I have had vaios since vaios first came out.
My current vaio, an SZ4, will be 2 years old in March but given it has just had a backlight failure and the fan is making a bit of noise occassionally I think I'll do my upgrade sooner rather than later.
I've always had vaios of around 1.7-2kg in the 13" size as that suits me perfectly.
The trouble now is that the current vaios that I would get are the Z series (2.6ghz core duo/4gb ram/320gb HDD etc, 802.11a/b/g/n, HDMI port, 2xUSB) but these are still around £2k whereas there is now a whole new crop of laptops which are much cheaper.
In case I have missed anything, does anyone have advice of any laptops that meet this spec/weight/size criteria that I should consider?
thanks
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Posted: 2009-01-07 12:37:18
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what about asus laptops?
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Posted: 2009-01-07 13:49:04
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I often hear bad things about asus quality and support so I'm not too sure really.
I guess I'm looking for something matching my requirements that someone has personal experience of. Sony have always been excellent with warranty issues (though I've only had 2 or 3 in all those years), and so that also goes to show the quality too.
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Posted: 2009-01-07 13:53:58
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i quit. i'll keep looking
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Posted: 2009-01-07 13:56:51
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Well from my personal experience stay away from HP laptops. I currently have one and I have had no end of problems with it. It is no out of warrenty and luckily is stable at the minute. We will see.............
Sorry it doesnt actually help with searching for a new laptop.
Regards
James
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Posted: 2009-01-07 13:57:35
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seeing the specs of the vaio you have currently, i saw this dell:
http://www.dell.com/content/p[....]~29~laptop-inspiron-13_anav3~~
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Posted: 2009-01-07 14:19:45
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what about a thinkpad?
THIS is a truely excellent laptop, and weighing in at only 1.4kg, it is really light
you can upgrade the ram to 3gb cheaply enough
thinkpads are always the most robust in their class. build quality is always exelent
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here is the thinkpad x200, at just 1.1 kg
(it has ddr3 ram aswell
they arent the most powerful of machines, but build quality and weight makes up for it
[ This Message was edited by: paul101 on 2009-01-07 17:32 ]
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Posted: 2009-01-07 18:21:54
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Stick with VAIO, I've just bought a FW21L , not to the spec your after but I'm absolutely loving it, my 1st vaio and its a joy, screen is fantastic, running standard 3gig ram on hungry vista and its speedy when multi tasking, wireless n connects instantly and sync via bt to my K850i is a breeze. Dedicated media keys are used constantly.
Only weak points are the speakers , not the greatest but then laptops rarely are but dolby through headphones is good, battery life around 2hrs on a 17in screen.
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Posted: 2009-01-07 19:57:23
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thanks all. I got a vaio tonight on my way home.
it should have been the slightly older Z11WN/B for a sale price of £1298 from a Sony Centre (best price I could find on the web was £1450 at ebuyer), but when I got home I found they'd actually given me a Z21WN/B instead which is a slightly later spec (2.53ghz instead of 2.4ghz) and a couple of other minor updates
fantastic 13.1" screen with native resolution of 1600x900!
it also has a sim card slot and everything else I wanted/expected
now to get everything shifted onto it so the old SZ4 can get the backlight repaired
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Posted: 2009-01-07 20:12:26
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Why not dell? I have a Vaio though
CR220E
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Posted: 2009-01-07 20:57:47
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