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Summary: Excellent laptop
Review: Sony Vaio GRV 550 is an excellent laptop with huge 16" display and 2.4 G processor, it is an ideal desktop replacement.
Rating: 
Summary: Beatiful screen and keyboard. Awful cooling system
Review: I got mine in january 2003.... After a couple of weeks using it I had to send it for technical service, due to malfunctioning in burning and connecting to internet.
After I got it back It was all perfect, although It is the most noisy laptop I've ever seen, I enjoyed watching DVDs on this great screen.
Recently though, It has been turning off suddenly, because it gets extremely hot. I'm Away from the US now.. Service outside the US sucks... I have no idea of how to fix it... I just have been patient enough to wait 20 minutes after it turns off... But I'm definitely buying other brand after this... I'll chek the reviews for an IBM or a DELL. NOT RECOMMENDED
Rating: 
Summary: excellent notebook
Review: Excellent value - very fast (2.4 ghz) - fantastic screen - good mem at 512M. Downsides - No floppy with the unit - have to buy as an extra. Over all, excellent machine for the $$ ... Good desktop replacement - ok to lug around if you don't mind a large laptop bag (that 16.1" screen takes lots of room!)
Rating:
Summary: Great computer with some great flaws
Review: Let me start off with the positive, it is a very fast machine capable running most (if not all) your application needs. The display is beautiful, small laptop screens hurt my eyes after a while. The video card is decent but probably not good enough for a lot of games. Everything but the modem will work perfect under Linux, I'm running Gentoo 1.4 right now. It doesn't have a floppy drive but when you spend $2000, what's another $30 for an external USB floppy drive. As for the negative aspects, the battery life sucks. When it was new I got maybe 1.5 hours out of it. Now it doesn't seem to accept a charge as good anymore so I'm down to 1 hour. There is a lot of garbage software pre-installed but a simple FORMAT C: solves that problem quickly :). The biggest problem it has is the cooling. The computer gets extremely hot and doesn't have a big enough fan to keep it cool so it shuts down on its own once and a while. Actually it seems to be getting more frequent as time goes on. If I could do it over again, I would've bought a Powerbook G4.
Rating:
Summary: Amazing piece of equipment
Review: I needed a new laptop so I really splurged and got this one. I haven't regretted it for one second. It's a little bulky to accomodate the large screen size, but it really helps with eye strain and makes dvds look incredible. I use a sony video camera and these two were made for each other. I got a firewire cable and plugged it in and was really impressed with how great my videos turned out. The firewire allows you to edit from the computer without ever touching the camera - start, stop, fast forward and reverse cue are all controlled from the keyboard and inside of Adobe Premiere (which is a great program which is included with the laptop). I have been nothing but completely thrilled with this machine and would highly recommend it to anyone - especially if you do any video editing or home movies.
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