Comments on: Sony VAIO sucks!

By: Gavin

Gavin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:21:47 +0000

Sony Viao is a piece of crap, worked for 6 months then failed, support warranties etc are all useless as nothing is honoured, just don’t buy a Sony particularly a Sony Viao laptop as you will regret it.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:40:52 +0000

I just baught a new f series sony 1200 right out of the box was having bluescreen of death, and ran slower than malasis. I reloaded os thinking i must have done something wrong, nope same problem. I have to agree in some aspects with some of these poor viao owners and that is that we shouldnt have problems right out of the box and that im not a computer tech and I know more than these idiots do. Back to my vaio after talking to someone I could hardly understand they took me through some rubbish test that didnt do shit then told me the ram must be bad so they will send out a tech to replace it. Well needles to say this was a complete waste of time. After installing new ram I completely reloaded os using recovering on computer guess what still same problem. So called them again same bs cant understand and ran me through the same shit. Then said my hardrive must be bad and I needed to send it in. Finaly I decided to do some looking on my own found out the problem I was having ( the blue screen of death ) a microsoft problem . I also discovered that this problem is usually caused by hardware or drivers. So through further research I found a product called advanced system optimizer paid 23.00 for this program downloaded it ran it and wa la problem fixed my computer needed 7 driver updates i believe it had the wrong driver or a bad driver. computer runs perfect and no more bluescreen of death. Still not impressed with sony but at least its running great now. I hope this might help some disipointed sony owners. Mind you Im not a computer goo roo. Just a frustrated sony owner.

By: primo

primo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:49:10 +0000

I can only hope ANYONE considering buying a Sony laptop will search the web and NOT BUY IT. Their product quality has really gone downhill and their support might be the worst I’ve ever experienced. My son’s laptop (it was bought to go to college) has repeatedly been sent back; just got it back (again) with a new system board and one week later the computer warned us the hard drive is about to fail. Yes, I was lucky in that I bought the extended warranty, but that just allows Sony and the extended warranty company to point fingers at each other as to who’s responsible for what when it comes to making this all right. I also happen to have a Sony WEGA with the optical block issue and customer service has been as unresponsive with this issue. I used to think Sony was a quality product – I will never purchase anything Sony knowingly again. I am also taking the opportunity to tell everyone I meet about this and when I’m in Best Buy and places like that I make a point of saying, loud enough, how crappy Sony products and customer support are.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:13:53 +0000

Ive had a sony vaio VGN-CS11S for nearly 3 years and its given me problems from day one. On the first year that i had it, it decided to start turning off randomly.. I would turn it on and 5 minutes later it would just turn its self off. I took it to a repair shop and paid for them to clean it out, it never worked so I looked into this and it turned out to be a manufacture problem so i sent it to sony and they fixed it for free and sent it back. The service was very good and i thought that after i got my laptop back, everything would be fine. Since that day, ive had a problem with the webcam, which sometimes decides to not work. I have a big problem with the USB devices, also the whole for the charger broke and i had to get it repaired and a few other problems with the laptop. I just mess around and fix them myself of i just live with them because i can really not be asked to spend more money trying to fix it. Sony are crap. I spend more time fixing this laptop than using it.

Sony should stick to making Tvs, because clearly there laptops are complete shite

By: Readyfreddie

Readyfreddie — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:45:08 +0000

I have a Sony vaio and it works fine. It shut off one time due to power failure due to a lighten storm. When I did turn it on again there were some programs not operating properly. I called Sony and they talked me through rebooting. They said when yo turn on the computer and when the screen comes on before entering a password (if you have one) press the F10 button it will give you a repair or recovery menu. Follow that precisely and that will repair your computer.

readyfreddie

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:26:19 +0000

I’ve had a Sony vaio PCG-7K1L for nearly 9 years now, and it works great, it was originaly my dads who had in in Afghanistan and brought it back, mine did start freezing, so i got google chrome and it works great
! it has a great sound system much louder than other computers, and its never broke. i love my computer!

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:53:53 +0000

Yes i agree, sony should of stuck with tv’s or do they suck now also? I bought my vaio laptop in April of 2011, the hard drive went only 2 months after. I just got it back and its November wow now that’s performance of good hard earned money. And ya it ran like crap then and it still runs like crap. frezes only when i use it lol all the time. There should be a law against being able to steal your money and legally get a way with it. Just give me my fucking money back. what the hell’s going on with workmanship????

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:03:54 +0000

Had to laugh when I came across this site – while Googling on how to fix the wife’s slow Vaio VGN-K71B, which I’m trying to fix as I type (on a system I built myself, and which is rock-solid).

I think I’ve nailed down the problem to overheating, which in turn has fried the HDD. I’ve run the Sony recovery disk; might as well have just waved the CD at it from a distance for all the good running it did. I’ve done a clean install of XP and ditto.

If I can get hold of a cheap enough replacement drive, I’ll try that. Otherwise, it’ll make a nice doorstop – just built the wife a nice new i7 950 desktop, so she’s happy.

Whatever happens, this is the last ANYTHING we’ll buy from Sony – and don’t even get me started on the MZ-N10 minidisc player I shelled out good money for – came with the worst software I’ve ever come across, and I’ve been in the computer game for more years than I care to remember.

Sony = CRAP!

By: jsmoke

jsmoke — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:54:21 +0000

Blu-ray player stopped working,disc drive stopped working,overheated so much it melted,pre-installed with needless rubbish,100 pounds to replace the power cable.Do not make the same mistake I did,do not purchase a sony vaio.

By: Joe Mama

Joe Mama — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:47:43 +0000

I think everybody needs to get it straight. Yes there are some hardware issues but when a program freezes or the o.s. needs rebooting 10 times in 30 minutes its probably not Sony Its Windoze. I use Linux on my Sony Vaio and it works great never had a better running computer. I will buy another one but I will dual boot linux so that windoze doesn’t create problems. Try a new operating system.