I have been using this laptop for a month now. Overall, I'm quite pleased with the performance. I did add another 4gb of ram and replaced the hard drive to a faster 7200rpm one.
The screen if very clear, the matte-ish finish is great in reducing reflections. The built quality is pretty good, the laptop doesn't feel solid though, it does flex, apparently sony claims this is better against damage.
The mouse button is LOUD. So I tend to tap on the touchpad instead.
Battery: if I put everything in speed-high performance, it'll last may be 2 hours. on stamina-balance mode around 4 hours. So nothing spectacular.
The fan is located at the middle back right below the screen, which seems awkward with the screen open because it is blocked partially. So putting it flat on a sofa or bed will result in that part being very hot. The fan is quiet under normal operation, but when it is on full blast it's extremely loud.
The camera comes with this Magic-i software that have quite a few adjustments, which gets very confusing when I was trying to fiddle with it to get the image right that I just gave up.
The speakers are horrible at sound production. Even worse, the headphones volume (with both my Beats and Bose headphones) stays pretty low if it's below 50%, I usually set it to 75% just to hear music.
UPDATE:5/29/12
The built in webcam stopped working for me a few days ago. Couldn't reach Sony support because it was memorial day weekend. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling it in the device manager and that didn't work. Today I went on Sony support website and update the AMD Radeon graphics card driver and lo and behold after the comp restarts, the webcam works again.
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