On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:33:50AM +0100, Adrian F. Clark wrote:
On Wednesday, Aug 6, 2003, at 09:29 Europe/London, abower@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
Urgh! Sony suck, if your laptop breaks in warranty (very likely from my experience) put it in the bin as their warranty is worth nothing at all they send them off to Belgium and if you are lucky you will see your laptop in around ~3 months.
My experience with Sony is also not good. I bought what was apparently the last replacement battery they have in Europe for a 2.5-year-old 266 MHz picturebook and it cost about £150. Far too expensive.
Ouch! I needed a replacement battery for my picturebook (typical dead cells problem, happens to picturebooks more than anything else in the sony range it seems) and got one from www.psaparts.co.uk (I think, will have to check when i get home) it isn't an official sony battery and is twice the capacity of the standard sony. I also cost me about half the price of just the standard "official" battery not even the "official" dual capacity one. I don't think I would have actually paid for an "official" battery considering how many problems people have with them, it being 3rd party was a bonus.
Oh the other thing that died on my picturebook was the hard disk, many people with the C1-VE had this problem and when they sent them off to sony for replacement they replaced the disks with a different manufacturers, of course my disk mush have died about a month out of warranty :(
I just wish there were more manufacturers of tiny laptops around, although my picturebook has been serving me since late 2000 now and I don't see any reason to replace it for another couple of years yet. (although it could do with more RAM)
Adam