On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 02:56:16PM -0600, Bob Sullivan wrote: > We bought boom boxes or cheap cd/radio players for the kids as teenagers. > These looked like component systems but were not. > The CD would fail and then the whole thing could not be repaired by Sony. > That's when I began to hate Sony products,but I did try a laptop 2 years ago. > It's still working but the case is beginning to fall apart. :-( > They have suspicious product quality. > OK for most video camera recorders which never see much use, > but unsatisfactory when used heavily. > Not sure I would risk a Sony DSLR... > Regards, Bob S. > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:25 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: "William Robb" > >> > >> From: "P. J. Alling" > >>> > >>> > My clock radio is a Sony, it was a gift from my father, he's been dead > >>> > for > 15 years. ?Sony used to make wonderful products. > >> > >> I am still using a Sony clock/radio that I got as schwag from Astral Photo > >> in 1985. The control dial broke, so I epoxied it back onto the switch. > >> That was about 10 years ago. > >> My Sony DVD player hs to be close to 10 years old now as well. > >> They can make good stuff, but I don't think I'll ever quite trust them > >> after the root kit virus thing they did a few years ago on some music CDs. > > > > I'd forgotten all about that. My only reason for not liking Sony products > > was experience with products that invariably failed within a week of the > > warranty expiring - consumer audio/video.
While I'm probably going to continue to buy Sony A/V products, I do let my distaste for the rootkit incident affect my computer buying decisions. All things being equal I wouldn't buy a Vaio notebook. Fortunately for me things are very rarely equal, and at present HP seem to have systems which fit our requirements better. Apart from my new toy from six months ago she who must be obeyed has just accquired a new system for doing all the household accounts, tax preparation, etc. It's at least as good as my machine in everything except the display (I've got 1920 x 1200, while she has to suffer with a mere 1600 x 900), and hers has one feature that is valuable for a machine which she relies on for financial data; it has two drive bays, so all data can immediately be copied to a second disk when she quits out of her financial program. Ignoring the second drive, and the extra software that came on her machine (W7 Pro 64 bit, Microsoft Office Basic) it ended up at around the same $800 that seems to the ballpark for a 4GB 17" notebook with Core 2 Duo CPUs. (Now maybe I get to sneak a K7 into the budget ... :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
