Sony Vaio wins hands down

Now as readers will know, I have a lovely MSI Wind nettop that is just fab.

Small enough and light enough to drop into a bag, but with a screen big enough to see most websites without straining and too much scrolling around. It runs Windows and Linux (Ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix at the moment) great keyboard etc.

I am sure I've covered this before, however the screen has gone iffy, doing weird shit like showing the display upside down, then going to the classic 1 line of pixels repeated endlessly. This is both disappointing and frustrating (OK, maybe an excuse to upgrade...)

But what it does (arguably) show, is that quality counts. I am writing this entry on my old Sony Vaio FX108K instead. It is a bit bulky, it is a bit old, and the battery doesn't hold much of a charge. But it has a gorgeous 15" screen that even today is bright, crisp and clear. It is fast enough to do surfing, office applications and social stuff, the keyboard is good, and apart from the problem where it only sees 512mb ram even though it has 2 gb installed (seemingly a common problem) it does everything I need.


And the quality bit? Well I got it in January 2001 folks, it's getting on for 9 years old, it is a Pentium III 733 mhz, with 20gb disk, running win2k (Linux support is patchy) and sod it it just works. My children use it as a second machine so that 2 of them can be on Club Penguin at a time and it works fine.

Thank you Sony and well done.