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Summary: Be careful. Could be low quality!
Review: A PC Hardware Fan from Newton, MA USA
I have the previous model from this line of the PCs. I like the slick design. The PC is very noisy, but the worse thing is that my CD RW drive has died. Sony would not fix it under the existing warranty, because I forgot to mail the customer information card.
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Summary: Sony Vaio RX-850 review
Review: First, I was adamant about buying a system cuz I usually build my own. But I didn't have time so I just bought the Vaio and hoped Sony will live up to its reputation.Here are the machine specs that are not obvious from reading just the documentation: Motherboard: it was an Asus P4S533VX. This was a good sign cuz I've been an Asus fan since the P55T2P4 rev 3 board using an Athlon chip. DVD-ROM DRIVE: was a Toshiba 16x drive. CD-RW DRIVE: not sure what Sandra told me but it was a 32x read / 10x re-write / 40x write burner. MODEM: Lucent winmodem. I ran some Sandra benchmarks and the CPU test was very good: 4782 MIPS for Dhrystone and 1332/2986 MFLOPS for Whetstone. The memory test however was kinda dismal. It was lower than the comparable test from a 2G system. I'm not sure if Sandra is wrong here but it's given me accurate results from before. The system is very quiet, you have to put your ears very close to the system to make sure it's running. The system upon going into hibernate mode, it turns the square light on the front from blue to orange-- very neat. Once you touch the keyboard, it powers back up without problem. So far there's no problem as of yet. I noticed the drive is partitioned into two: C drive with about 20Gb and D drive into 60Gb. I guess this is okay so I can install all the stuff into D: drive. The anti-virus that came with it is a PC-Cillin evaluation deal. I uninstalled it and installed my newly bought Norton Internet Security without any problem. In summary, this would get a 5 rating but the integrated video (Sis) sharing memory with the system takes it down a notch. But I can probably replace it with an Nvidia or Radeon AGP card to put it back to a 5 rating. I guess this is not really a fault cuz you ought to know this while buying the system. The Sis video is not really bad. I played Quake3 and Morrowind with no apparent problem. Morrowind is kinda choppy but I just read that it may be due to its copy protection. Quake3 was smooth though. All in all it's not a bad system. Oh, the speakers are not the best. I would replace this with one of those sets with a sub. For a $... system with a 17" Sony monitor and a Canon i320 printer, this is a good deal.
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Summary: SONY RX-850
Review: This is a good computer.It runs fast fast and smooth and no problems!A great purchase.
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Summary: A Very Nice Piece of Work from SONY
Review: This is a very nice hardware with good load of software to make it work smoothly. I specially liked the multimedia software that comes with this SONY. I have used many PCs and this was the easiest to set up. It was fast and without a single glitch. This SONY has a high-speed processor, large capacity hard disk, and huge RAM to last several years, at least for me.
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Summary: A Very Nice Piece of Work from SONY
Review: This is a very nice hardware with good load of software to make it work smoothly. I specially liked the multimedia software that comes with this SONY. I have used many PCs and this was the easiest to set up. It was fast and without a single glitch. This SONY has a high-speed processor, large capacity hard disk, and huge RAM to last several years, at least for me.
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Summary: Getting better all the time.
Review: This is the best Sony I've reviewed, again gaining high marks for its value. Doubling its predecessor's DDRAM to 512 megs and adding 6 2.0 USB ports makes this machine's specs good enough as shipped to make 95% of the PC market happy. The other 5% (myself included) would like to have a true game-ready, 64 megs (or higher!) of video RAM. The included 32 meg Sony in-house, on-chip setup here just won't cut the mustard. There is, however, an open 4x AGP slot, so an upgrade can be bought (figure about ... for a very good video card) and slid into place in 10 minutes without any fuss. In addition, there is no monitor included here, so that's another important expense to add (I'd budget about ... for a very nice 17" LCD monitor). Nonetheless, it's a quality machine with lots of great features and it's one I'd be happy to have "as is" for anything but interactive Internet gaming or CAD.
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