1. Just a month ago they shuttered the production of the Clie product line in N.A. Not only that, but they packed up their developer access to programming information to these units.
This is like the kid that gets mad and packs up all the toys (including yours) and goes home.
2. Sony has dropped the ball too many times for our office. We had a block of 20 Sony laptops which all bluescreened in the first week. 1 year later, all had been to Sony's repair centers and we couldn't eek a full day of running Microsoft Office on them due to heat issues.
3. Sony seems to have a cavilier attitude that you will run the OS they supply. If you get a Windows XP Home, then they don't supply drivers if you want to run XP Pro. Be sure you can get the drivers for your machine.
4. Since you can't get drivers, that was bad enough, but imagine if you needed the restore CDs. Again, Sony failed here.
This is not a nice company to deal with.
Bob
hey everyone, i'm about to purchase my first notebook for school and i have a few questions. i'm half way through college and i switched majors to web design. i need a new pc and a notebook is definately the way to go. i'm just so confused with all the different choices of processors. i feel more comfortable going with a pentium 4 because ill need the power to run programs such as flash, photoshop, java, etc. but ive been reading about the pentium m w/ centrino technology and everyone seems to say thats the way to go if you're going to be moving around with the notebook. i'll mostly be going from house to school and back again, maybe taking it to other locations here or there. my school has wireless lan, but are pentium 4's really that bad for mobility?
i'm looking at the sony k27.. pentium 4, 80 gb hd 512 mb memory, and i like the sony name... first off, does anyone know about that notebook? it looks good to me, im not too concerned about weight and size because i know i need to sacrifice some things for the added power, but i need to make sure i can connect to wireless at school and what not. thanks for any advice

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