Q: Sony Vaio or the Apple Mac or whatever you call it
A: Depends - some Vaios are overpriced. But all Apples are. Between my MacBook Pro and my Sony Vaio FW - the FW is better. MacBook Pro : -MagSafe Power adapter burned at connector twice - a known issue - Apple never did a recall -Computer didn't have a fan that ran fast enough or a case that vented well - my case suffered from heat damage because it got hot enough when playing WoW (with an exterior fan attached) to case the casing to bow outwards. -Loud fan when it did run high - the computer sounded like an airplane taking off. -Annoying customer service with people who treated me like an idoit. And often couldn't figure out the issue. I had so many problems with the genius bar. -An operating system (Leopard) with a lot of bugs and weird things that killed off some computer (one kid got nothing but a blue screen and had to completely start over - lost info). I didn't get it - and updates for Tiger (10.4) stopped coming. -Bad reaction time to attacks - recently a DNS server attacked all OS - Windows, Apple, Linux - and Apple was two weeks behind the other two in getting the patch out to fix the issue (stealing personal info I belive was what it was doing.) -A computer that just wasn't worth the $3,00 dollars I paid for it (with Apple Care and Later Upgrade from 1GB to 2GB RAM) -The OS is nice - it's pretty simple and easy to understand. But it's not like that's the biggest deal. It doesn't run my games. It doesn't run some of my programs... -Which means I ran it with Boot Camp. That is a neat feature of OS X - but I hated having to switch back and forth for school stuff. I had to buy two copies of Office just to make life easier. -It is a pretty light computer - that's good right? Sony Vaio FW: -Good feeling with great ventilation - my computer never gets hot - even when I ran Warhammer Online for a good 6 hours. It cools itself incredibly well. -Great screen and resolution. Lots of room to do my graphic work and photo editing. -Runs programs incredibly well - really fast. -I love Vista <3 I can mess with so much - I have a dock like OS X and I have my taskbar/start menu at the top. I love the Windows Sidebar too - it doesn't take forever to load like Dashboard did on my Mac - and I can keep it running and still see stuff while running other programs. It's great. I love all the customization I can do. And I have had no problems with Vista now that SP1 came out - which is one more reason I purchased this laptop. -Speakers work and better CD/DVD tray. It pops out and can read mini discs - hurray! Macs don't do that. -It's actually a tad smaller / lighter than my boyfriends 17" MacBook Pro -I have had no issues. No viruses. No slowing down. I actually like Windows more now that I have switched. I can control things so much more. Defraging my hard drive is amazing - it cleans up so much room. Macs you don't do that - even though when a Mac runs slow and you bring it into the genius bar they will open a program that defrags the HD from their little hard drive - a program that costs money. They suggest you buy it. We laughed at them. I love my Vaio as well. It is incredibly sturdy and well built. It has great battery life (oh yeah, my MBP didn't have that either.... batteries lost life real quick). I wouldn't switch back to Apple computers ever ever again in my life. Unless Sony started making them - then I may consider ^_^