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Summary: Endless touchpad hardware problems
Review: I bought this notebook. At first it seemed to me fabulous
but then I discovered it has hardware problems with the
touchpad like explained by other reviewers: touchpad clicking continuosly
on its own , going up, down etc..
Sony should do something about this, as most of v505 owners
have this kind of problems !
Also I found the case is of bad quality, just plastic.
Don't trust pictures and go touch goods before buying.
Rating:
Summary: Don't bother with a SONY Notebook
Review: I bought this one from Amazon.com 4 months ago. Here are the problems I had to deal with:1. Yes, unsurprisingly I am having the same touchpad problems. It is erratic!!! It sometimes does not work and sometimes jumps from one corner to the other corner of the screen. 2. Battery life is too short. 3. This Notebook does NOT include RECOVERY CD's. So, if you have a problem with your software you have nothing to do!!! Customer support will tell you to order and pay for recovery CD's!!!? Don't go for the style and the name and buy an IBM T40.
Rating: 
Summary: persistent problems outweigh size advantage
Review: I have had my V505 for about 6 months now. I have persistent problems with the touch pad as so many have noted here. But I also have problems with the space bar not registering a touch on the right end of the bar so words run on without spaces if you use your right thumb to type the space bar. Another frequently occuring and annoying problem is the cursor randomly jumps to odd places in a document so I find myself typing in the middle of a sentence two lines above or some where else than where it should be. Some days I hate this computer. I wish I had bought a IBM T40.
Rating: 
Summary: Yum!
Review: I have this computer and I love it in just about every way.
I use an external mouse instead of the touchpad, as I've found the touchpad to be sensitive. But I'm not having any problems now that I'm using the external mouse. It's cute, light, sleek, and dependable. It's a joy to use. I've had mine for over a year now. Got it when it first came out and I'm happy!
Rating:
Summary: Everything but the Touchpad
Review: I love the styling and the nice features of the V505's but Sony should issue a recall to fix the touchpad's. I'm an IT professional and I've dealt with 100's of laptops. The V505 series has the worst touchpad I've ever seen. I personally own a V505AX and I can attest to the horrors of the touchpad's from the series. Very poor, less then useless... I wish I could find the time to send it back. Steve M
San Francisco, CA
Rating:
Summary: Yes, this computer is definitely possessed
Review: I was shrugging off all the complaints about the touchpad on the Sony and thought it couldn't be that bad. Boy was I wrong! This thing Sony dares to call a touchpad should actually be called the drive-you-absolutely-insane device. First of all, the pointer will sometimes skip 1/2 way across your screen for NO reason. Sometimes you'll double click on the pad to open a folder and NOTHING. Sometimes you'll try to move the pointer and the pad does not respond AT ALL. And then, get this. Sometimes, when surfing the net and dragging your pointer to the left, your browser goes back a page! Yeah, so when you're typing messages into certain websites message box and you accidentally go back a page, when you go forward - POOF all your work is sayonara! And only because you wanted to drag your pointer to the left. And yes, you will have no clue when it will happen. It's almost magical! So Sony, if you are reading this, I hope you all burn in hell! No, I take that back. Maybe just the engineers that designed the touchpad. Wait, I take that back again. Yes, everyone at Sony, that knows about this problem and didn't say, "hey, maybe we should get the touchpads to work before we ship the laptops? Yeah, all of them should burn in something. Maybe at least scald their hands under some really hot water. Man, how the heck could you sell a $2K laptop with a touchpad that doesn't work???!!! Besides the touchpad, I only have small complaints. It's just that frustrating because it's a great computer, if the damn thing would work.
Rating:
Summary: Yes, this computer is definitely possessed
Review: I was shrugging off all the complaints about the touchpad on the Sony and thought it couldn't be that bad. Boy was I wrong! This thing Sony dares to call a touchpad should actually be called the drive-you-absolutely-insane device. First of all, the pointer will sometimes skip 1/2 way across your screen for NO reason. Sometimes you'll double click on the pad to open a folder and NOTHING. Sometimes you'll try to move the pointer and the pad does not respond AT ALL. And then, get this. Sometimes, when surfing the net and dragging your pointer to the left, your browser goes back a page! Yeah, so when you're typing messages into certain websites message box and you accidentally go back a page, when you go forward - POOF all your work is sayonara! And only because you wanted to drag your pointer to the left. And yes, you will have no clue when it will happen. It's almost magical! So Sony, if you are reading this, I hope you all burn in hell! No, I take that back. Maybe just the engineers that designed the touchpad. Wait, I take that back again. Yes, everyone at Sony, that knows about this problem and didn't say, "hey, maybe we should get the touchpads to work before we ship the laptops? Yeah, all of them should burn in something. Maybe at least scald their hands under some really hot water. Man, how the heck could you sell a $2K laptop with a touchpad that doesn't work???!!! Besides the touchpad, I only have small complaints. It's just that frustrating because it's a great computer, if the damn thing would work.
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Summary: Stay away from Vaio V505
Review: I would give it a 0 or negative if I could rate anything lower that 1 star. I put about $3k into a VAIO V505-BCK, 2.4GHz CPU, 1G Ram, 60G HD + WiFi/Firewire etc, it is fancy, stylish, all I can say is Wow... But soon it turn out to be the worst investment in my life, first the touchpad, it pauses during the movement, and then jumps to no where. Using an external mouse doesn't helps at all. And the cursor frequently jumps somewhere when typing a document. I need a machine to do what I tell it to do, not a Christmas Elf to help me messing up everything. Then the keyboard, the poor design of combine the up/down/left/right cursor key to the pageup/pagedown/home/end keys. Just figure how many times you may use pageup/pagedown/home/end keys when you writing a paper, now you have to press Fn and the cursor key. The Ctrl-Home to Ctrl-pageup now become a 3 key combination. You may say it is just a matter of time to get used to it. Well if you prefers black coffee, and from today on you have no choice but have to have coffee with sugar, what's your reaction? 3. The Video/Audio play back, it pauses likes the mouse, not even a smooth play, everything plays smoothly on a $300 machine, but not on this $3k baby. The audio chokes, the video jumps... 4. The battery, remember it only lasts 1 hr. If you went on a 30 minutes presentation, be prepare for run out of battery in the middle of the presentation, if you take the preparation & answering questions into account. A double capcity battery is $500, which is abosultely a rip off. A little research found that there's more than 10 devices were attached IRQ 9, while many other IRQs are free. I guess this is the source of the problem, and there's no place to manually assign an IRQ to a specific device. Although english is poor, guess you've already unstand what I am talking. Stay away from this Vaio V505.
Rating:
Summary: Think hard before buying
Review: It lacks small but important features like S-video output, which you expect in this age. Surprisingly , even the accessories are not able to make up.
Rating:
Summary: If you need wireless, don't buy this computer
Review: It may look great, but the only thing worse than this computer's wireless card is Sony's rude and unhelpful customer service. The internal wireless card in mine is defective, and I've met at least 3 other people who have had the same problem. Sony refuses to fix it on the grounds that they don't make the card itself. I ended up having to buy a pcmcia style wireless card.
Also, it closes programs at random, and the on/off key is badly located (on the bottom front edge), so it's really easy to put the computer into hibernate mode by accident while you're working. The battery life is fantastic, but that doesn't really matter when nothing else is working correctly.
Don't waste your time or your money on this computer.
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