The_Jargon said:
I remember buying a PCI card and it wouldn't work due to my onboard video, and I couldn't disable it. I, personally, don't believe Sony does what you're stating.
you answered yourself before you said it. i work on vaios more than any other computer because they break down the most on customers.
what makes you believe that sony
wouldn't do it. they make good TVs and stereos, but when they first got started they made the crappiest ones out there to get started. my assumption is that sony is doing the same thing it did in its early years again, but this time with thier relatively new line of computer products. this is a massive corporation who markets these systems deliberately to people who don't know enough about computers to realize that they're being ripped off. vaios are bought because of the sony name and advertising.
being that i've dealt with these atrocities on a weekly basis for the past few years, i can honestly say that sony vaios are the worst computers of all time. i'd rather use a damn transmeta crusoe than a vaio for christ's sake. not only are the parts of extrodarinily low quality, but they are shoddily put together as well! they even had a sense of humor and bundled these so-called system recovery CDs that do nothing more than flash "CALL SONY TECH SUPPORT 1-800-XXX-XXXX" when used in the one manner they were supposedly intended for. and then once you get the damn things running sony forces all this crappy software and advertising on you, not to mention that they don't make any drivers for thier crappy hardware available to the public. no, that would be too easy, they make you BUY a 7-cd set of recovery cds that don't even wirk in the first place. then they go in for the kill, instructing unwitting customers to send thier machines to a sony repair shop to be fixed, charging way too much and then having the same problem a year later.
sony's computer department makes money by creating problems that only they can fix!
you couldn't even disable the onboard video. even a $30 chinese socket A motherboard made so badly that the standoff holes don't line up lets you turn off the onboard video. sony wants your money, nothing more. the know that the only people who would buy thier product in the first place are the same ones who don't know what a rip-off it all is.
and sony tech support, if you ever have the displeasure of dealing with it, is the worst of all time. i say "it" because theier phone is answered by a computer. a computer that is probably the same peice of $hit you're trying to fix because the so-called voice recognition doesn't recognize squat, especially if you have an accent. then you have to wait over an hour before an actual live operator picks up the phone and directs your call to the killing floor. after another hour wait someone at the other end - it doesn't matter because they always say the same thing - they want you to pay for this conversation and that the system needs to be sent in to a sony repair center. and to top it all off, they actually want your name, address, phone number, and email address!
if sony vaio's werent so bad, then mabye repairing them wouldn't constitute nearly half of my business, far more than any other maker. and if they weren't trying to rip you off, mabye thier prices would actually be able to beat the local guy, who uses name brand quality parts and puts together a custom build by hand taylored to your needs.
you should be thankful that yours lasted as long as it did. sony should have paid
you when you picked it up. vaios are friggin a waste of electricity. im tired of fixing them and i hate seeing people wasting thier hard-earned money on such crap.
i rank the sony vaio right below ECS, warm beer, and windows ME
