Sony VAIO(R) VPCF122FX/B F Series 16.4" Notebook PC - Black Reviews

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I'm giving this one 3 stars. I don't see the big speed improvement when compared to my 2 year old Dell. Then again, I haven't tried any games that would take advantage of the 1G video card or heavy processor intensive work. I mainly use it for everyday use like email, MS Office, browsing, running a web site, etc.

Things I don't like:

Keyboard: It takes getting use to. Typing on the raised keys is defintly diffenent then the conventional keyboards.

Hard drive: Not the fastest at 5400rpm. I might upgrade to either with a SSD or a 7200rpm HD. Also, you can hear the HD spinning, reading and writing under the keyboard. Clicking sounds are a little annoying.

Memory: Only comes with 4G when it could support max of 8G. Comes with 2x2G and if you need to upgrade, you need to pull out the existing memory. It's a waste of money.

Weight: Little on the heavy side.

Comes with a Blu-Ray reader and not a Blu-Ray burner

Bloatware: :Added Value" or not, I've uninstalled tons of unwanted software.

Back-lit keyboard (goes off after few seconds. Can't leave it on all the time)

Things I like:

Large screen, 16.4"

Ease of making backup media in case the hard drive crashes. You'll need 3 DVDs.

Back-lit keyboard (makes it easier to see the letters in the dimmly lit room)

Price; I got mine really cheap as I bought it as an opened box and it was a previously retuned item.

Bottomline: Not a bad machine; I wouldn't have bought it for the full price;

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I purchased a Sony Vaio VPCF122FX and I'm not happy with it. It seems to be running hot all the time. The cooling fan is very noisy and you cannot watch a video or listen to music without this high pitch noisy fan running in the background. I've used a DELL E6400 laptop and it is super quiet by comparison, regardless of how many windows I've got open or applications I've got running.

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Bought this laptop a year ago and of course after the one year warranty, things go south.

The laptop is flimsy, as the majority of the case is made from plastic. When you pick this thing up, you can feel and hear this thing cracking and flexing. Not Good.

As a result of the flimsy case, components began failing. First the blue ray player went out, but not completely, it still plays blue rays and burns DVDs and cds. It just won't read regular US DVDs. I've reformatted the hard drive, installed all updates, and cleaned it and everything under the sun! After contacting sonny about the problem they recommended the drive needs to be replaced.

Second, the hard drive failed after I reinstalled everything after the failure of the blue ray drive. Luckily I had an extra 320 gig laying around. The disk drive's failure was mechanical, possibly due to the lack of internal support or shock absorbing properties of the case itself. I do not travel much; it's a shame after about 4 trips in a backpack the drive/s fail.

After the hard drive and blue ray drive failures, I was convinced things were ok again. Wrong. As I am Skyping the wife, in mid sentence, the keyboard and touch pad quit working. I'm thinking virus, although I have up to date Norton, driver failure or something. After troubleshooting every software possibility, it turned out the ribbon that connects the display buttons and keyboard, have a bad connection. I wiggled the ribbon, which is located under the speaker panel by the caps lock lights, and the keyboard came back. The touch pad, however still does not work. So I took it all apart to find that a manufacturing flaw caused the ribbon of the touchpad to be pinched between the case. Over the course of a year, the thin and flimsy ribbon wore through.

I use a Bluetooth mouse so I had to borrow a usb mouse to install my Bluetooth mouse, but now everything is working, except the touch pad of course.

With how unreliable this computer is, I would never use it to type an important document, you never know when this thing will fail you. I'm going to give it to my 6 year old to play with.

On the plus side, despite the slow hard drive, the processor, graphics, ram and esata port are great.

The display is fuzzy, not very clear.

Never again Sony.

Seth

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I have had this laptop for over two years, and to be honest, it is amazing. The only reason i retracted a star from the rating was because of the fan, it isn't too much of a problem, but it just isn't good enough and it can be loud at times. This computer runs super fast as i even have a dual boot between Linux and windows, and put it under heavy use. I bought this for around $615 so it was basically a steal on my part.

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Cheap Lenovo G570 15.6-Inch Laptop (Black)

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I have now ordered 2 of these computers. One for my friend who needed a new computer and one for myself for when my current Lenovo dies. I have the G560 laptop and LOVE it. I like that this computer has 4 ports, mine only has 2. I like that it has windows 7. I really think the price is outstanding. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is the speakers are not the greatest for watching movies but I just use headphones.

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I've been using this for months and it has been fast and reliable. You can't beat it for the money! If you need to do graphics work or video rendering, obviously since this doesn't have a dedicated video card--it wouldn't be a good choice for videographers or photographers running Photoshop or other graphic intense applications.

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Great secure packing from Lenovo. Didn't come prepacked with a bunch of junk. But also not loaded with normal things like adobe and flash.

Computer housing, keyboard and touchpad is flimsier than I expected. Is slower than I thought. There seems to be different versions of G570. Which is very confusing.

G570 has a 320G hard drive and 2.2 GHz Pentium B960, and G570 4334eau has 500G hard drive and icore3. I was shopping on a friend's computer under the duress of a HP (piece of s... laptop's CPU failure) and did not notice the extra letters in the different G570 models. I thought I was getting a great deal for $379. Since I've only had it for a month maybe I got an ok older no longer carried by lenovo model. I would have preferred something faster and sturdier.

Two HP laptops I've had failed in just 3 years each. Nvida card melt down in first and CPU failure in the cheap class action suit replacement. Since I was determined not to buy HP ever again or torture myself with Windows 8 my total laptop selection was limited.

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Pros: Processor and GPU are excellent. I have ran Star Craft 2 on ultra settings without any issues. WoW on ultra except for shadows and get roughly 45 FPS in Dalaran. Minimal bloatware only took about 10 mins to remove.

Its a beautiful machine. The case has some kind of artsy pattern on it.

loading times are low thanks to the 7200 RPM drive. other laptops in this price range didn't have this. I was able to copy the 18GB WoW from my main computer to this in about 4-5 mins (via ethernet cable not wireless).

Cons: the display resolution is a little low for the size. I've seen other laptops in this size range with superior displays. In spite of this, the resolution is worth the sacrifice in exchange for everything else being so powerful.

The touch pad is a bit strange. The buttons are part of the pad. This means that while your trying to click on something you can accidentally move the mouse, however the sensitivity is very good.

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A great product. This laptop is 1 grand the same price as a macbook but with much better specs. Comparing the two you instantly realize that this laptop offers 3 times the ram 2 times the processor cores and a much better graphics card. Macs are over priced buy this notebook to get the most out of your money.

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Ok, first off the specs are great for the price. A lot of bang for your buck.

Now the less obvious things that may or may not be deal breakers.

-The screen resolution is weak. I use this primarily on my desk with a big 24" monitor attached, so it doesn't bother me. But if you're on the go with this often, 1366 x 766 is not much screen real estate.

-The keyboard is PAINFUL to use. HP has added a column of 'Quick Launch' keys on the left side of the keyboard so that %50 of the time that you think you're hitting Ctrl you're actually launching the calculator app. Also by default the F1-F12 buttons are replaced by 'Action buttons' (volume, screen brightness, etc.) so that you have to hold the 'Fn' button to actually get the Function keys incredibly frustrating.

But don't worry, with some hacks, you can program the keys do whatever you want. Download KeyTweak and check out this thread:

And you can toggle the 'Action Buttons' setting in the BIOS Config (ESC on startup).

Overall, Great value, terrible keyboard. After tweaking the keys, I'm happy with the purchase.

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CAVEAT EMPTOR, this notebook is OK, performance is excellent, screen OK... but the keyboard is hideous. I hate it. I didn't notice how annoying it was until i opened the notebook and started using it.

The complete keyboard is displaced one key to the right. This is very annoying. If you have some experience with computers, (e.g. if you don't fish in the keyboard using two fingers) you are used to having the leftmost column of keys being the [`] key, the tab key, the caps lock, shift key and ctrl key.

This machine has some custom buttons (remember the compaqs from early 90's?) in the leftmost column of keys, one for email, one for firing the (slow) software that deals with video and music, one button for the browser, one for the printer (???) and one for the calculator (??????)

I don't understand how someone could make the decision that having a custom button to fire up the browser is so important that the lateral and awkward shifting of the keys is acceptable.

Every time i want to press the A key i end up hitting caps lock, etcetera..

I must work with other computers, so if i eventually get used to this keyboard, i'll press the wrong keys in other machines.

HP should fire the guy that designed this keyboard. (i rate the keyboards in the previous HP machines i owned as excellent)

If i could pay some money to have this keyboard replaced for a regular one, i would gladly do it.

This machine has other design problems.

One of them is the touchpad. It's a lot bigger than usual so it's difficult to touch just with one finger. You'll inadvertently end up touching it with other fingers. The keypad also lacks a hardware button to turn this huge touchpad off. This is annoying.

This machine lacks the (now usual) hardware buttons to turn the volume up, turn the wireless on, etc. They are integrated into the F keys (F1 to F12). So, if you are working in excel and want to change the contents of a cell, you press F2 and this dims the screen brightness. To press the REAL F2, you have to press the FN key and then F2. How much more annoying this keyboard could have been???

Last, it doesn't have the numeric keypad. OK, i've owned notebooks without numeric keypads in the past, but they had smaller screens. I own another DV6, with a Core 2 duo that has the exact same screen size, and it has an integrated numeric keypad.

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This computer is great; you really get your money's worth for the price you pay. I have had this computer for about 4 months and it has been living up to its expectations. I am an Industrial Design student and I needed a good preforming computer to run different types of design programs effectively and efficiently. When I am using this computer I usually have iTunes, Facebook, my e-mail, and multiple design programs running at the same time and it still runs very smoothly. Aside from the performance, it is also very user friendly and easy to start using right out of the box. Some of the different features are great on this computer. I love the fingerprint scanner, which I use not only to log on to my computer, but also for any website that requires a password that I need to log in to. The hinges on the screen are very sturdy and you actually need 2 hands to open it (one to open the screen and one to hold down the computer. The web cam is good quality and the HP MediaSmart web cam program has some great features. All in all this computer is a great buy if you are looking for a high preforming, sturdy, and reliable machine that fits in somewhat of a budget.

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I've had this laptop for 4 months. The build quality is pretty good and the screen is bright and vivid. Has a decent Radeon HD 6xxx series GPU and runs linux well.

My *biggest* complaint is while the laptop offers lots of physical room for expandability, HP has locked down the BIOS so no wireless cards or other upgrades can be made to the machine. Inserting any other mini PCIe upgrades to the machine results in the bios complaining at boot about a "unapproved upgrade" and locking.

Had lots of potential, but the lack of upgradability is a game killer.

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I've had my laptop for a couple of weeks now and I am very impressed with the speed and capabilities that it has to offer. The graphics are awesome!!! The Windows 7 program that it comes with is also very easy and straight-forward. I'm really loving this. I would recommend this product. For the price it can't be beat.

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I've hand this laptop for over a year now and its been exceptional. I use it as my secondary machine for when I need a larger screen to collaborate with others in meetings. I also use it quite a bit in my office. In spite of it being an A4 all my applications run snappy.

This week I upgraded to Windows 8 without any issues. I did use HP Support Assistant software to ensure that all the proper drivers were downloaded.

I like the imprinted touchpad quite a bit as well as the ability to turn it off with a double-tap when using a mouse.

I would like a firmer keyboard but I'm able to type fine on this one.

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Just bought this over the weekend and it performs perfectly! Great value laptop packs a punch! Beautiful large screen and is pretty fast! No regrets and I would definitely recommend this to a friend :)

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I have been using this laptop for the past 6 months.

+s:

Extremely good screen (you can't find this quality screen in many cheap laptops. It does not have the regular "mesh" pattern of other cheap laptops)

Very well balanced performance. Not very fast for intense calculations, but I can do almost anything with it. It will handle it, but with a bit of patience.

17 inch screen is wonderful for multitaskin (excel, word, paint, gimp, matlab etc all open at the same time)

-s: feels not very durable (plastic feeling). Won't dare to drop it.

fan noise (specially when firefox and opera run at the same time)

Not the fastest cpu. But having a nice cheap 17" system needs some sacrifices.

tmouse-pad is ok but scroll-down/up 2 fingers gesture is not easy in practice.

Unlike Dell, HP does not send a Windows installation cd. So if necessary, I will need to use Dell's cd to install a fresh Windows!

All in all, I can't complain about this considering the price. It is well worth more than the price at the time of purchase (~ $380). Did I mention how perfect is the screen?!

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Laptop arrived from Amazon 2 days earlier than first suggested, so I was very happy about that. Arrived with out a ding on the box. Great shape.

Got this two days ago. My first impression was I was horrified how cheap it looked. I was afraid to break it lifting it from the box. The body is just cheap thin plastic. It seemed to bend dangerously on the bottom just being held. The black color of the case is an ugly flat black, the whole finish is a gigantic finger print magnet.

It looks better with the cover up. The keyboard keys are a hair too small, but spaced good. I am very picky on keyboards, and it's been tolerable. I adore the back light on the keyboard as I often type in dark to dim rooms, it's great. I also keep the laptop plugged in usually so a short battery life won't bother me. I think it's about 2 hours something with the back-lighting.

Before I bought it I worried a lot about the off set touch pad due to the full number keypad. It hasn't bothered me. The touch pad can be hyper sensitive, readjusting the screen size on you. You just have to get comfortable on what it tolerates and lift your fingers a bit.

Cd players has worked well for programs installs.

The speed of the laptop is great coming from an i5 Sony Vaio, I can see the difference. Wifi works great. All ports I have tested so far are working well.

The laptop has remained cool to the touch after a full day of use. I'm not a gamer, I can just say the worst loading web pages actually opened fast and I've had about 18 programs open, nothing barfed.

I love the large screen size, have not watched a ton of video yet, but what little a saw I was some what surprised it didn't look as good as the 13 inch Sony Vaio we have. I'll update when I use that more, not being fair to evaluate it this early on when I am busy with so much else.

Laptop over all, outside the cheapness of the case I really like. I'd give it a 5 if not for the case.

Windows 8 is fast and a lot of useless eye candy. I like the operating system's speed, don't like the interface so I am busy customizing it. It seemed overwhelming yesterday, but much better today. It was effortless to set up the WiFi and Bluetooth and such. I guess I feel the same way about Windows 8 as I do the laptop. Great inside, hate the outside.

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I am a IT manager in México City, in my last travel to USA I buy this laptop.

I was scared od the comments about the lack of turbo boost, I think are trolls, because mine have activated it and is used a lot!!! ( I have it 80% of thime over the 3 GHZ)

Recently made a upgrade, replacing the main HD whit a new SDD (256 MB SEAGATE) and let the original HD in a especial tray, in place of the DVD drive, I also buy a case to make the DVD drive external, so I can use it with an USB cable.

This is by far the best laptop I ever see (and use of course), I run badass things of my work, an takes all like nothing, even with databases (SQL SERVER).

I recommend it for non 3D graphics use, I have 3D games on it, but is not a gamer laptop, outside of the 3D graphics, you get a beast, and worth every penny.

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Okay let me be honnest with u all, at first i din't like it, it comes with a bad Windows 8, it use to reboot at 2 mins from the start up & many issues with it. All i do wass erase my hard Drive and install a new Windows 7 and from that it work amazingly 100%... So all u need is to install a New Windows 7, Vista etc....

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It came in very fast to my address in Lancaster and there was no problem shipping it to where I was at. It works great and the new windows program is amazing and also I am so happy that it already comes equipped with everything I could possibly need.

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I got this computer for my birthday and I love it! It does not look cheap just sleek and very nice. I love the lighted key board. I have to get use to windows 8 and the new office but other than that all is AWESOME!!!

I read some of the reviews and was hesitant about buying one then I went and looked at it and fell in love with the computer. I am a student at University of Phoenix online so I needed another computer. I have wanted a VAIO for years and they were to expensive. I LOVE THIS COMPUTER!!!!!!!!

If you get the chance to get on do!

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Have been using this system for a couple of weeks now and love it. Great compact design, very thin for a system with a optical drive, and the keyboard is excellent.

Pros Elegant design, slim body, great keyboard + trackpad, Intel architecture, and Dell warranty.

Cons Dell bloatware. I would prefer to see Dell load very clean installs instead of some of the useless software they will load to collect bounties.

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We purchased this item for a Christmas gift in Nov 2011 and gave it to my 18 year old son Christmas Day. Since then, we have had 4 major repairs (cursar pad, wifi connection antenea, 2 hard drives!!!!) Warrenty (that I paid extra to get )has been great tech always repairs product but really ...4 major outages. Last one while my son was in the middle of a major college project. All data not backed up was lost. Arghhhhh.

Lets see if Dell makes good on their promise to look into this computer. Could we have a lemon?????

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I was looking for a compact and light laptop that I can easily carry around with me and that is capable of handling graphics heavy programs, as I am a graphic designer. Price was also a big consideration. After researching many computers with NVIDIA graphics cards and intel i7 processor like this one, I discovered that besides for being absolutely gorgeous, this computer is the cheapest in its class of light and thin computers that are capable of handling a little more than microsoft office. I have to admit, the looks of this computer definitely appealed to me and may have affected my decision when buying this computer... But i have had it now for about a month and so far I have no complaints.

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I got this laptop couple of days ago, and i bought the used type but " like new ". This laptop is beast! very powerful! and it's good for everything and i didn't waste any money, i even saved couple of 100's..At first i was going to buy the Macbook pro 13"..but it had 4gb ram, i5 2.40..so i said why should i buy a macbook pro and waste $500 ? when i can get a better laptop and save half a gran ? so i bought the dell xps 14z and it's really good, fast, easy and light! i'll recommend a person who is thinking of getting a apple laptop, to buy dell xps 14z, it's better ! and you can do everything on this ! from an experience i'm saying this because i have a Macbook 2009, and i couldn't do anything on that.. except school work. But Dell xps i'm playing Guild Wars 2 and its really good !

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This is the sleekest, coolest best looking dell laptop I have ever seen. I've owned it now for several weeks (purchased through Costco, not Amazon, for slightly more $). The specs are good. 8GB Ram, 750GB Hdd, i7core, dual core processor with hyperthreading, and a high-end clock rate during burst mode. The screen is fantastic, many more lumans brighter than my other dell laptop (an old m65).

Now why did I pick this PC? Because it is as close to looking like a macbook pro without being a mac. My personal preference for any laptop, is to immediately wipe the OS and put Ubuntu on it. I am currently running Ubuntu 12.04 with kde-plasma-desktop installed; this computer is behaving like a dream.

A quick comment on the device. It has more holes (aka vents) in it than I would like, but the engineer in me knows that this is Dell Trying to make sure the PC lasts a long time (good ventilation and heat dissipation are crucial). My Wife's Macbook Pro LAPTOP overheats often, sometimes too hot to put in her LAP. My other complaint is that while the laptop screen is well aligned with the base and clearly well attached, I can see that it is mounted .5mm (check a ruler if you can't envision how small that is) further to the right, than to the left. This extremely anal way of looking at the top when closed speaks to why I bought the PC to begin with: I wanted a precision cut and designed metal housing.

I am still giving this 5 stars, because I want Dell and the world to know that there is a class of people out there, who want precision crafted PCs like this, but don't want the inane constraints and cost-overages of a Mac.

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This little laptop is great. Since I rarely use a disc drive except to load programs and drivers, this is perfect for me, It has an ll.6" screen, weighs about 3 pounds, and Windows 7 profesional 64 bit, so I now have loaded 4 Gb of RAM. It is a very fast laptop, doesn't heat up like my old one, and the battery gives over four hours of use on a single charge.

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This notebook is cute, tiny, and extremely portable. I look forward to using this as my daily development machine, once the new wifi card arrives... (see below)

The graphics performance is what you would expect: slightly better than a modern integrated card. This is not a gaming laptop by any means, but it packs enough power to run less demanding OpenGL games and demos. It is capable of playing 1080p video in Windows (haven't tried in Linux yet).

This laptop may have either a Broadcom or Realtek wireless card. If you plan to use Linux with this laptop and end up with the Realtek card, be ready to replace the card. There is a whitelist, but there are ways around it.

All in all, I would recommend this if you love Thinkpads and low-profile laptops.

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I bought two of these machines-one for work and one for my husband. About 1 year after purchase (right after warranty ended), the keyboard stopped working on my work machine. A quick search found that this is a known problem. This has been a pain for us at work. My husband's keyboard is still working which is why I'm giving it 2 stars.

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This is a very nice little netbook, but it is a little limited with only 2GB of RAM. 2 more fits the bill nicely and is cheap from Crucial!

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When I sold computers in the 80's, I used to tell customers do the following: Make a big cross on a piece of paper. Mark the First box APPLICATION, the Second box PRICE, the Third box FEATURES and the Fourth Box I Forget (Hey, the 80's were 30 years ago and I've killed off half my brain cells since then in partying!!!). Under APPLICATION, I wrote BUSINESS COMPUTER (hvy typing, business powerpoint graphics presentations, hvy internet surfing) and Music Downloads). Under Price I went C-H-E-A-P (sub $600.00) as I had recently lost my job through my whistleblowing efforts. Under Features, I demanded a GOOD touchType keyboard as the 'deal killer' (NO CHICKLET KeyBoard for me!!!), a 15.6" LED Screen, 4GB Ram (DDR3's) 320GB HD and an INTEL Core i5 processor (because I wanted a system I could use, abuse and throw away after FIVE YEARS). I left the Fourth Box Blank (although I could have put SOFTWARE as in WIN 7 64bit OPSYS) in memorium to my dead brain cells.

The LENOVO (Ex IBM) G560 Essentials is the KING of the throw away Business Computers and I would recommend it STRONGLY for all HS/College Students/Business Professionals as a CHEAP but Great Computer.

STRENGHTS: C-H-E-A-P!!! Although it retails for $699.00 list, I paid $549.00 for mine at a Brick & Mortar Electronics store. If you pay more than $600.00 for it, you've been ripped off!!!

CPU: Intel Corei5-450 Dual Core with Hyperthreading. FYI, Intel only makes one chip, the Core-i7. It sells broken/detuned Corei7 chips as Corei5s and Corei3s. Don't buy the Corei3 chips as they will be obsolete two years after you take the computer home. Hold out for a Corei5 machine.

RAM: 4GB DDR3s---can be upped to 8GB but you have to throw away the perfectly good twin banked 2GB sticks. I say up yer RAM in 2.5 years when prices drop

CHIPSET: The extremely mediocre HM57. If a CPU is analogious to a car's engine, the CHIPSET is analogious to the transmission---it doesn't matter if you have a SuperCharged 640 BHP engine if you can't get your tranny out of 2D Gear!!!

KEYBOARD/Screen. Keyboard is THE BEST on the market and the 15.6" LED screen is very good. This sold the machine for me. I also liked Aluminum wristpad=a nice tactile feel for what is a soft, flimsy 'plastically' computer.

BATTY MGT: Battery (LiON) is good at approximately 3hrs typing mode or 1.5hrs game mode

HD: 320GB This is the Absolute minumum you should accept. Don't spend more $ for more space now that External 1Tetrabyte drives are going for $69.00 each and 2T externals are going for under $100.00

Features: 2 USBs, 1 eSATAp port (use this for external HD hook-up) and a HDMI port (which is wasteful as the graphics can't handle HD/BlueRay resolution).

Weaknesses: THIS IS NOT A GAMING PLATFORM!!! The HM57 Chipset is bad enough but when coupled with Intel's integrated HD Graphics card (one step up from its wretched 4500 integrated graphics card), it barely reproduces VGA graphics, let alone HD stuff. HP makes a good BlueRay ready computer with dedicated graphics card which will cream this computer BUT the keyboard sucks!!!

SOUND: SUCKS---the sound quality from my Sprint phone sounds better!!! So What? Ever hear of HEADPHONES? A stand alone computer amp with integrated sub/Pre-amp? I N-E-V-E-R take my computer out anywhere without my TRAVELPRO rolling suiter which has room for my joystick and my computer amp. NOTHING freaks fellow travelers out when I start running over screaming/cursing pedestrians or lobbing molotov cocktails at screaming gangbangers in GTA Vice City (an ancient 2002 game).

RECOMMENDATION: A GREAT SCHOOL/Business THROW AWAY Sub $600.00 Notebook. It is thin, modern looking and types great. I H-A-T-E computers because they age like a carton of milk. Take home a $2,000.00 desktop replacement laptop and SIXTEEN DAYS LATER, a better computer at 1/2 the price will be for sale---thus invalidating your buying decision, your mental soundness, your manhood. I paid $549.00 for mine so when the price drops to nothing or something better hits the market, I can shrugg "Whattya want---I bought a throw away computer for $549.00 and I already got my money's worth outta it". A Core i5 for $549? BUY IT, USE IT, THROW IT AWAY!

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Good laptop according to its price ($700). Very fast, cool and not so heavy. The problem is the mouse pad, it is a nigthmare, I'm using a mouse without problems.

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I bought this laptop primarily to use in a mobile recording setup with a firewire interface. The computer didn't come with too much bloatware, but I still removed it none the less. I like the fact that it has an eSata/USB combo port on it, HDMI and an express slot for my firewire card. I can stream 26 channels of digital audio to my DAW from my firewire recording interface without a glitch. I also hook it up to my main 42" tv and stream Netflix and the picture and sound are fantastic. I was a little concerned that it used integrated video instead of an add-on video card, since this usually translates into poor video and overall system performance. Kudos to Intel as this is not the case! For under 700 bucks this was a great value.

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The Ideapad has a very comfortable keyboard and stands up to daily use. The screen size is greatI do a lot of photo processing, and have watched movies on it. I've never had a problem and would buy a Lenovo again. The Veriface feature doesn't seem to work consistently but I don't need it, anyway.

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I needed a new laptop for college and after doing a lot of research settled on this Lenovo. Works just fine, I've never had any frustration with it, and it does everything I need it to do.

Comes with a lot of useless features like Veriface, which I guess is cool.

The cursor pad takes a little getting used to, I just have to tell everyone else that is using my computer to TAP, not click.

But it's lasted me 2 years now and still going strong. I even dropped it once but only very minor outer damage.

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I admit I had never heard of the ASUS Brand when shopping around for a laptop. I did some research and basically didn't find any bad reviews....especially on this particular model. So I went for it and I'm glad I did. It was a Christmas gift for a family member who basically just wanted something to surf the web with and read emails, watch movies etc... So basically this notebook is overkill for what it will be used for. Anyways,the initial start up was a bit of a pain since it prompts you to back up the OS ( Win 7 premium ) ...which took a couple of hours and 4 DVD-R discs....because it does not include the OS disc....so be sure you have those blanc dvd's handy. So.. Ok we did that and then ...wow..this is a really nice computer! Screen is crystal clear and graphics look pretty much HD. Some people do not like the shiny glass ( it's not that bad ) but we do not find it bothersome at all. This computer is super quiet, no joke...you will hear yourself breathing but not a mutter from this beauty. OK, after a couple of days we were faced with Microsoft updates and plenty of them which includes the service pack 1 which took a while. This is not out of the ordinary on any new laptop, notebook, desktop etc...Basically your machine just needs to catch up to Microsoft since it sat in a box for a bit. We uninstalled the trial version of the anitivirus software and downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials...which we have running on our other XP computers. Only thing about MSE is that it would not install correctly in IE8 so we had to download the new IE9...no biggie. There really isn't much bloatware on this system at all...well, the one we bought didn't anyways. So far so good...it's only been a few days but we are happy. We have not done much with any of the installed software so I cannot comment on that. This computer replaced a 10 year old laptop that barely had any life left in it...sooooo, of course anything is better than that !

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Toshiba Satellite P755-S5385 15.6-Inch LED Laptop - Fusion X2 Review

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I've had this laptop for almost a month now. So far I'm very pleased with it. I use this laptop mainly for everything a college kid does, as well as development software like Netbeans, Adobe, Eclipse, AutoCAD, etc. I'm also a casual gamer.

Pros: This thing is a beast, incredible performance and speed. I can have something Dreamweaver and Eclipse open at the same time, while watching a video or gaming and you barely notice a difference. the 2nd generation Intel Core i7 2670QM, aka Sandy Bridge, has a great benchmark. It can overclock to over 3.0 Ghz via Turbo Boost when needed. It has a lot of RAM, 6GB is more than enough, and you probably will never use all of it. For the average person, 4GB is more than sufficient. Starcraft II ran just fine on it, even without discrete Graphics Memory. Of course, for the hardcore gamers, it will be best to get a model with NVIDIA Geforce.

750GB is a ton, even more than my external hard drive. Many people don't understand that when you buy, say a 750GB hard drive, you do not get 320GB of space. No, you have not been lied to. Manufacturers use decimal notation (320GB = 3.2 billion)but computers read binary, so it's really closer to 690GB. You always get slightly less than what the manufacturer says, I believe it's around 5% less than what is advertised, so this one holds about 692gb. It's roughly 692GB usable, and more closer to 650GB with all the Toshiba Bloatware. But still, The average person won't ever have to worry about running out of space on this laptop.

The screen looks great. It's a glossy LED-backlit LCD screen. The resolution isn't super high, but this isn't a $2000 laptop. It's 1366 x 768, and that's perfect for anyone really. This doesn't bug me at all, as you can't even tell the difference between 720 and 1080 on a screen size like this. But if you really are obsessed with screen resolution, be prepared to spend close to $2000.

There are dedicated hotkeys up by the screen, next to the power button. The Eco button, the wireless button, LED Light Controller, Play/Pause(music), mute, and volume. Very cool and useful.

It does everything that I need without ever having problems. This machine feels cool to the touch, doesn't overheat, even while having Adobe Dreamweaver open and watching a DVD movie at the same time doesn't make it hot. After running for around 4-6 hours, the bottom was still fairly cool. Keyboard is fairly good. Not the best laptop keyboard ever, but I tend to have low expectations for laptop keyboards. This is not a $2000 laptop, btw.

The battery life is fairly good for a machine this size. Usually it's 3 hours, but I can get 4+ hours in Eco Mode(Plus the Environment). However, in Eco-Mode, I noticed that the computer was significantly slower once I was running multiple applications. The Eco-mode does reduce performance, but prolongs battery life, so that's a trade off.

This laptop also has sleep/music and one USB 3.0 port that does sleep and charge. I never use the sleep/music function, but what it does is that you can plug in a headphone jack from an mp3 player and play it through the computer's speakers even when it's shut down. I don't see the point in that, as I could just fire up iTunes when it's on and do that. But pretty cool regardless. Sleep and Charge allows you to charge your portable device(Phone, iPod) via USB 3.0 even when it's powered off, as long as the laptop has a certain amount of battery life. That could come in handy when you are outside traveling and away from a power source. Keep in mind that this feature doesn't work on the other three USB 2.0 ports.

The speakers are amazing, they're harman/kardon. It sounds great, and gives you a mini-theater feeling. It was a lot better than my old computer, I noticed a significant difference. Built in Mic is loud and clear.

I really like the touchpad. It works well, however multi-touch scrolling is not enabled out of the box. You might have to download & install a touchpad driver from Toshiba(search). Then you have to go to the Control Panel, Mouse, Sypnatics, and enable to multi-touch scrolling gesture. You can enable others as well, but the scrolling is the only one I ever use.

The whole laptop design is beautiful and elegant. That design really stops fingerprint smudges, and just looks really cool in general.

Not much cons here, but Cons:

The Webcam. The webcam isn't the best, I believe it's VGA. It's not that bad, just not the best. I don't notice much difference at all between this and a 1.3 MP webcam. How many laptops actually have HD webcams built-in? I don't really video call that often, no this is a non-issue to me. You can always buy an external HD webcam.

Some people might think the material feels cheap and plasticity, and would prefer a different material instead. But personally I think it's fine the way it is.

Toshiba Bloatware. Toshiba usually has a lot of preinstalled software on their machines, including free trials to things like Norton. They're not all useless though, the Toshiba Eco utility helps me prolong battery life, while the Intel My Wifi can allow you to connect at the login screen. Once again, not a big deal to me, I uninstalled Norton and Ms Office Starter though.

No discrete GPU, if you're doing something GPU intensive, I recommend you look for another model with NVIDIA.

Overall, this laptop was a great bang for the buck for me. I checked Toshiba's official website, and a laptop with similar specs as this one would range from 975-1000s. If you can get this laptop in the 700s, then it's a fantastic investment. I'm very happy with my purchase, and who would recommend this to anyone.

Update: Had this for nearly 6 months now, Laptop working perfectly fine. Remember to keep a computer at its peak performance, you have to be doing "maintenance" on a consistent base(ie, Deleting Unncessary Files, Defraging, clearing temp).

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Wow. I chose this computer over many others (being a prior Toshiba user swayed my judgement just a bit) because it was reasonably priced and has many features I was looking for. Memory speed was something I would not compromise on, 6 GB is working for me. I have had this out of the box for less than 6 hours and have been AMAZED at the quality. Ohh and on a slightly more personal note.. I have to re-train myself to use the 10-key again!! :) The case of the computer has an interesting finish on it, textured, not smooth. Enjoy.

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I have an old Toshiba with a dual core AMD turion processor and to tell you the truth, afternearly 4 years of abuse it still works fine. But I needed something more. I am a movie poster on sites like youtube and I do digital artwork. I needed to get a faster, more reliable computer and this one absolutely FLIES CIRCLES around my older model! I tell everyone that an i7 quadcore processor is no joke! On my old computer, it would rip a movie at about 20fps. This one? An AMAZING 155fps! Just unbelieveable! The 8gb of DDR3 ram is no joke either! And with the new usb 3.0 I can load a 2TB portable drive in a matter of about 10 minutes!

This computer is so FAST it's IRRITATING! Let me explain. On my older model, I'd click on a program and it would take about 20seconds to load. This one? I can load several programs in a few seconds!

One thing that's a bit strange. The entire laptop has an odd texture. It's a bunch of bumpy straight lines from left to right...sorta like the peel out markings of a tire, lol.

That being said, I am giving this a 5* rating simply because 10 or higher isn't an option!

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Have had this for a week now and am extremely happy. The i7 processor is very fast and the whole computer works very well. I would rate the keyboard as being excellent with numeric keypad and all. Graphics performance is only average though so I would not recommend this for the serious gamer. My only real complaint with this unit is that it does not come with a recovery disk. Capability is provided however for the user to make their own recovery disks by inserting one or more DVDs and burning using the Toshiba program. If you get one of these be sure and do it.

All in all this unit is an excellent buy when one looks at performance versus price.

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I've owned this computer for 3 months now.

The computer itself is gorgeous and works wonderfullythe WiFi is crazy strong when it comes to signal (places that other wifi capable products say only have 1 bar, this computer will pick up at 4 bars no problem).

Runs almost everything that I throw at it game-wise. The only one that I've had issues with so far is having to turn the graphics low on Tera since there's really not a great graphics card on it.

The reason why I'm rating this 3 stars is purely from the keyboard problems. The keys are truly terrible. You have to type really hard and short; Holding ctrl, alt, shift, caps lock turns out to be a problem with it losing the long stroke almost immediately. I don't know if this was a fault of poor design, bad quality-control or what. I mainly watch videos in my bed on this computer, so keyboard-wise, I haven't returned it because its gorgeous screen and audio keeps me using it daily. If I want to play games or type to friends, I usually just use my desktop made for that (however, that's in the living room).

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Okay, so I am one of those people that is EXTREMELY nervous when buying expensive things. The computer, happily, turned out to be a fantastic deal for what I got. The computer, most importantly is quick, don't worry, the first time you turn it on it may seem slow, but that is because it has a lot to set up, it only gets faster and faster. It came pre-loaded with google chrome and internet explorer pinned to the bar. As well as Toshiba Book Place and Toshiba App place. Both are pretty cool tools. It also comes with Microsoft 2010 Trial Program; I already bought Microsoft 2010, so I just typed in the product key. The key board is pretty cool, the keys are now back lit, but the mouse pad has a pretty bright light, as well as the lights above the keyboard (system control panel). It is a Windows 7 computer, has intel CORE i5, is energy star approved (energy friendly and shuts down to sleep to conserve engery. very nice. It is very asthetically please, which its chrome/black like finish. It has a premium sound system, and it sounds surprisingly good. It also has a very nice resolution and video quality. There are 4 USB slots (one of which is USB 3.0 sleep and charge), I like that. OH and a side note whenever you move the computer, a notification (which can be turned off) pops up saying that the hardrive has been moved to "safeplace" while it is being moved around too much. Cool feature, in case you are being to rough with it to prevent damage to the hardrive. There is also a security lock slot, a DC-IN, Optical disc drive, Microphone/Line-In jack, Headphone jack, Cooling Vents, RGB Port, Network Port, and HDMI Out Port. I really like that there is a seperate number pad off to the side, that happily, does not take away from the good size of the keyboard. It comes with a 1 year standard warranty by toshiba and a $10 dollar eMusic card (around 20 songs). I am really glad I got this computer, very nice, fast, easy to set up and understand. I recommend this to anyone looking for a great laptop for their money. Feel free to ask any questions, I WILL ANSWER :)

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I purchased this Toshiba Satellite laptop as a birthday present to myself a few days ago and am not disappointed. This is my favorite computer among the MacBook and laptops that I own. This computer is the most powerful of all, and the 2nd Generation i5 processor is fantastic. The graphics display on DVD and Netflix videos is excellent and the harman/kardon speakers are awesome! Overall I am pleased so far with the operation of this laptop and the specs included are impressive for the cost. Also, the laptop cover is handsome and has interesting ridges that will hide potential scratches well. Please feel free to post questions. I will answer them if I can.

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When my Dell Inspiron died, I used my husband's Toshiba S655 for a few days and realized how much I'd been missing. Amazon's offer of 12 monthly payments without interest charge enabled me to talk my husband into letting me order this one, and it arrived today. Setup was super easy, download of my current antivirus program and other things I needed to install went without a hitch, this thing is awesome!!!

Should I experience any problems down the road I will add comments, and I'll add an update as I get more familiar with the machine. But so far, so GREAT! And it hasn't gotten hot at all after several hours of work on it already, whereas the heavy Dell always needed a fan underneath and still blew hot air.

This laptop is a lot of bang for the buck, go for it!

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I once was a big fan of Toshiba and its customer service. Not after my last two laptops. We bought this laptop for our son. Five months after the purchase, the operating system just shut down. I used a Linux startup disk to get to the hard drive to grab copies of his summer term papers. But the Toshiba rescue disks would not boot up -even though the Linux disk did. So Toshiba charged me $25 to ship the laptop to their repair facility. The repair facility tells me that the operating system is corrupt and that is not covered by the warranty. So they wanted another $25 to reinstall the operating system. And I am almost 100 percent sure this crash was NOT caused by a virus or spyware. I used to work someplace that cloned hard drives for our computers, and often the clones were crap and only worked for a short while before crashing. I think this is exactly what happened with this Toshiba, and they charged me to fix their defective product. I want the quality, customer-oriented Toshiba I knew in the early 2000s, not this passive-aggressive company that seems to think if the customer is unhappy it is the customer's fault.

UPDATE: The "new" Toshiba hard drive has crashed again, less than three months after the "repair." I'm not even bothering with Toshiba this time. I'm taking it to a local shop as if it never had a warranty. Why would I pay them another $50 to do another "warranty" repair.

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I purchased this computer because I had an older one that lacked a web cam, and thought I'd just go ahead and purchase a new one and link the two computers. Firstly, the web cam picture was extremely blurry. Secondly, I was unable to link the two computers because the instructions were so confusing. But worst, it is impossible to get Toshiba customer service representative on the telephone. I got recordings, day after day, that because of the holidays their reps were busy but there was no holiday. And unlike companies that realize that they have long hold times and offer to call you back when someone is available, Toshiba just leaves you hanging, which runs up your cell phone bill.

I returned it, and spent $99 on an amazing, crisp, easy to use web cam. And by the way, Amazon was wonderful about the return. I recommend them!

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I am really enjoying my new Lenovo IdeaPad U510 Ultrabook. I was using another brand of laptop for the past 3 years or so and it was showing its age. I run a small consulting and grant writing business using my computer so things like reliability, storage and computer speed mean a lot to me. First off, I'm very impressed with the overall size and weight. My previous laptop, while powerful when new, was also much larger and much much heavier. With 1TB of storage, I am pretty certain it will take some time to fill the storage space. The keyboard is much easier for me to use. Not sure why, just personal preference, but I really do like the feel and the response. I have to say that Windows 8 takes a bit of getting used to and the new computer and I are working on this aspect of out relationship. This is not a touch screen laptop and I did not want one, but I'm sure there are many who would agree that a touch screen was the target for Windows 8. There are ways to make Windows 8 look and feel more like Windows 7 and I'm using the Desktop screen to help me adjust. So far, I'm thoroughly enjoying the experience.

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All laptops i have bought till date where lenovo....Got this 5 months back.... already called their customer care 3 times.. waste of time... issues never get resolved...

Issues

mouse pad is not fit for use cursor keeps moving without touching hardware issue

Wifi turns off automatically and no option to turn on wifi in hardware or software

Both these issues could not be resolved by their customer care. They even restored my system.

Today the monitor does not display any content and just displays 2d gibberish and hangs.

Must be one of the worst laptops ever to have been sold.... I have regretted every minute having this... now they are going to service it...

Save your money and buy something reliable.

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In the 3 weeks we've had his machine we have identified some nice features; a bright, sharp display and lighted keyboard particularly. Also good battery life and light weight. However, the unit I received has several glaring defects. The first was a complete lack of instructions and much installed bloat ware. It is unknown how much of this is due to Windows 8 and how much due to Lenovo, but it took many hours to finally locate a rudimentary tutorial to help navigate the main features of Windows 8, including how to remove the bloat ware. It took more research to find a program that would restore the Start button. Specific Lenovo problems were an almost impossible-to-use touchpad and weak reception of WiFi signals. The touchpad response had to be slowed considerably before choices could be made fairly safely; otherwise wrong selections occurred frequently. Two finger scrolling quit after a week or so, possibly because of an inadvertent operation that has yet to be revealed. This computer replaces a 7-year-old laptop that had much better WiFi performance with a 1-2 bar signal strength. Running this machine on the type 802.11g band at 2 bars results in frequent dropouts due to timeouts. I was unable to download a large file for supporting our 3-1 printer until the Lenovo was positioned next to the router. Behavior on the n-band seems even worse. We have no 2.2 GHz interfering signal sources in the house (except a microwave), and most neighboring stray WiFi signals are n-band.

This machine is not for the faint of heart.

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The trackpad is messed up. From day one i used a usb plug in mouse since those are easier to use than the trackpad. However, when i forgot the mouse i had to use the trackpad and notice after a few minutes of use it went hay wire, the mouse would be moving everywhere with very little control and even when you weren't touching the trackpad it would move on its own. Not sure if this was mistake during manufacturing of this particular laptop or if something happened during shipping.

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Before I bought this I read some reviews on it, and overall it seemed like a really good laptop for everyday use. I was happy with everything, the look and feel of this laptop, its performance, and battery life. Overall it does exactly what I'd expected it to, and because I bought it on sale I paid much much less than this laptop is really worth. It's great for school, work and basically everyday use. Not a big gamer, but I don't think it's really geared towards that.

The only complaint I would make is that i had read one review before I had purchased this laptop where they had said the mouse would sometimes move of its own accord, and could be really frustrating. That was the only person who had mentioned that issue, so I had assumed it was just a defect with their machine. Unfortunately, mine has the same issue. I haven't tried sending it back to the manufacturer or anything to get it fixed, because it doesn't bother me that much. Essentially what happens is sometimes when I'm not touching the mousepad, the mouse will move or click and can mess up what I'm doing. I found an easy solution: there's a shortcut button where F6 is (the F keys you need to press "Fn" before you can use them, if you don't they are used as shortcut keys like sound/brightness/airplane mode) and one of these shortcut keys will disable the mouse. If you disable it all the time and use a regular mouse, you'll never have this problem, or just disable the mouse when you type, it tends to help (i think its because sometimes I touch the mousepad when I type, as it is fairly big). Also, when the mouse goes on the fritz, just push the button to disable the mouse and then push it again and your mouse should work fine. Works for me.

Another thing that people had mentioned was that the laptop was quite heavy, but it's also a bigger laptop, and its not like you're lugging around a ton of bricks. It just feels more stable, and the added weight you don't even notice, especially if you have it on a desk (which it seems to be really geared towards desk use) it actually makes it feel more stable, and less likely to break.