So, my birthdays coming up. Im thinking of getting a laptop for it. I been looking around, nd need some opinions on this:

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores...552921665364374

Its a Sony Vaio FZ Series: VGN-FZ290EBB.

The specs are on the page.

I'll probably be using this to slowly replace my Desktop. Since my desktop is crap, il just use it for the Hard Drive Space.
Its $1k, and my budget is about $1k.

I'll probably be doing some gaming(not major.),
So, should i stick with this or another?(Recommend please)

Been look at more Laptops:

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?...=Dell+XPS+M1530

Its a XPS M1530.

 

Thanks, i checked NotebookReview, they didn't have that Laptop.

 

as i said earlier, i dont want a fully gaming laptop, If i did i'd rather get a desktop computer a better GPU.

 

I just dont well trust iBuyPower. Friend ordered a desktop. It was a rush delivery, took him 3 months to get it. So yeah.

 

Wow thats a really good laptop. But reviewers say its cheap plastic. I'll be moving the laptop from there to there, so afraid it might brake.

EDIT:
"Keyboard isn't just uncomfortable, it's non-functional. Several keys require multiple presses. The touchpad is small and often unresponsive. The wireless bottlenecks at 10 mbps for some mysterious reason. The webcam simply doesn't work. The battery life (not listed here) is poor: 1.5 hours of just basic web surfing. The website doesn't have any drivers, period. The tech support is completely unresponsive, I've been waiting for 5 days and received no response."

I need a good keybored that is functional.

 

My experience with the vaio line (mainly mid to high end desktop replacements) is less than brilliant (no drivers worth a damn (thankfully omega drivers stepped up), usual botched install of windows (trivial to fix but still more time than it should have been), parts a pain to get when it breaks (custom nonsense which I ended up making myself most of the time), battery (not that I or anyone I know cares whatsoever about it) would be less than an hour, DVD drives spit more coasters than I care to remember, cooling awful and the best dust magnet I have ever seen (heat->lower clock-> useless machine (my single core 2.93GHz machine got to the point that my very stripped down version of XP could not play an mp3 on media player classic with rudimentary postprocessing).

Then again that could be said of just about everything in laptop world.

re: cheap plastic. I have only seen custom designed laptops ("foam/metal casing or better) able to stand up to anything more than a stern look and I have never seen a worthy touchpad other than touchscreen laptops.
To this end USB ports exist for a reason (PS/2 splitters/adaption kits especially) and a £20 laptop case is not hard to get.


My suggestion: drop some money and get one of those ultra low power machines I see around these days (more than suitable for portable internet and office work if you know what you are doing) and then use rest of it to score a decent desktop (if you can use the old monitor and the like until you can be bothered to spring for a new one).