Sony VAIO VPCYB15KXP 11.6" Pink Notebook Review

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(More customer reviews)Bought this from Fry's electronics about a month ago for my 14 year old daughter - she got straight A's so off to get her a new laptop. Hunting around and saw this beautiful laptop and she fell in love with it. The unit is perfect for her - light, small (she can bring it to school easily), sufficiently long battery life of around 5 hours and good keyboard. Most importantly, it is PINK!!! The dual core 1.6GHz AMD E350 CPU run rings around the Atom while consuming very little power, and provide pretty decent gaming performance.
Pros:
1. Size and weight, perfect for travel
2. Good battery life, easily 4-5 hours, sometimes more
3. Snappy performance - comes with Windows 7 32-bit home premium, and Aero flies on this guy
4. BIG 500GB hard drive - enough for all her digital media
5. 4G RAM - good enough for whatever you want to run
6. HDMI port - for under $500?? Wow.
7. PINK!!! Perfect for a 14 year old girl.
Some minor issues:
1. The touch pad is small, but if you have small hands, it would be fine. Not recommended if you have big hands/long fingers
2. It would not play some 1080p files initially without stuttering, installed KMplayer, tweak it a bit and it is mostly ok now, but still has occasional glitch
3. The first unit we got had BSoD errors right out of the box, showing a blue screen and start dumping RAM onto the hard drive!!! It would crash and core dump every few hours. Returned and got another unit and works fine now. If you get one, make sure you run lots of programs and give it a good workout, make sure it does not Blue Screen on you. Seems like Sony has some QA issues.
4. Speaker volume a bit weak, but it is expected for such a low cost and compact unit.
We also got the matching Case Logic carrying case for this unit, again PINK. Available at Sonystle web site.
Overall we are very happy with this unit. Highly recommended.
6/6 update -
We bought the keyboard skin and the sony pink headphones with interchangeable ear buds - this is now the perfect PC for my daughter. Couldn't be happier!


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