We had a period at work of buying Sony Vaios as the standard laptop for everybody. We bought about 6 or 7 them in the space of a couple of months.
All but 2 of them died soon after their warranty expired with a fault on one of their SODIMM sockets. The other two died with screen backlight faults. Our research on the net showed that this was the way most other owner's Vaios died in similar ways too.
Sony wasn't interested, despite this obviously being a design defect. There was talk of class action suit in the US, but I'm not sure what happened to it.
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Date: 2006-01-14 11:32 am (UTC)We had a period at work of buying Sony Vaios as the standard laptop for everybody. We bought about 6 or 7 them in the space of a couple of months.
All but 2 of them died soon after their warranty expired with a fault on one of their SODIMM sockets. The other two died with screen backlight faults. Our research on the net showed that this was the way most other owner's Vaios died in similar ways too.
Sony wasn't interested, despite this obviously being a design defect. There was talk of class action suit in the US, but I'm not sure what happened to it.
As a result, we don't buy Sony anymore - ever.