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: 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: DO NOT BUY SONY LAPTOPS!
Review: pros:
*huge screen
cons:
*pathetic battery life (1-1.5 hours)
*extremely noisy (equivalent noise to most servers)
*poor speakers (inexcusable for a sony)
*may be true of all new machines but a lot of junk software included, some of which had expired by the time i 1st turned on the machine. others could not be deleted.
*huge ac adapter with short cable (just not well thought out components)
*no floppy drive overall:
since i first wrote this i experienced the same problem someone else had. my laptop shuts off due to overheating. this machine is a joke. i have read sooooo many complaints about this same issue i cannot believe a class action has not been filed yet. i would stay AWAY from all vaios!!
Rating: 
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: Max memory limitation - too low
Review: This is a very good package and excellent value.
The only and critical downside is that the maximum
memory is limited to 512M. This is unacceptable
for this kind of workstation level laptop.
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