Pros: The i3 processor handles multi-tasking well, great screen resolution, Blue ray player is a nice bonus, and a built in graphics card.

Cons: Touchpad is too sensitive to wrists and hands resting around it. Having to make your own recovery disks is ridiculous, $1000 bucks and Sony can't even give you a few disks. Use Sony's recovery disk utility, the Windows backup utility made a bunch of coasters for me and couldn't finish the backup.

Overall Review: From looking around on Newegg this seem to be the best bang for the money with the resolution, BD player, processor, and dedicated graphics. I would recommend this laptop to people and I would buy it again.

Pros: This is a wonderful laptop. After thorough comparisons of the available 15" widescreen laptops here, this seemed to be the best execution of form and function. Beautiful screen, excellent resolution capabilty, Blu-ray(!), decent graphics card, all for under a grand! It handles multiple processes with aplomb, and dang--it looks and feels good. Blu-Ray playback is smooth, and at 1080p! No visual artifacts detected. Always nice to have a numerical key-pad. I play Team Fortress 2 at 1080p (1920 x 1080) w/o a hiccup and at smooth rates; it doesn't even get hot! (Granted, I do have a Zalman laptop cooler.) HDMI output and eSATA port for teh win (pwnzor). A well balanced machine, this is.

Cons: As with any computer shipped from a manufacturer, there's plenty of additional software I could do without; appreciated, but no thank you. Also, while there is software to create a system restore disc/s, it would have been nice if they had just included it. When I'm running the Squeezebox Server for my Logitech Squeezebox Boom and the computer is otherwise idle, I return and it takes it several minutes to unfreeze, seemingly w/o detrimental affects to performance or stability. This does not happen when the Squeezebox Server is not running. Lastly, it would have nice to have one more USB port; also, the placement of the ports is somewhat odd (out of the right side) considering some users, like myself, may want to use a proper mouse w/o resting my wrist on wires. Gonna buy an angled USB extension and multi-port pod to solve that. No back-lit keyboard, but 31337 users should be able to navigate the keys w/o looking anyhow, bwaha.

Overall Review: Buy a laptop cooler, esp. for home use. I purchased this to serve multiple functions (general use, gaming, movie watching, eventually to serve as an entertainment hub to which I'll attach my HDTV, etc.) and it seems to do all of these things exceptionally well. The HDD is relatively slow (rendering the eSATA port somewhat irrelevant), but down the line I may install a SSD. If what I say makes sense to you, buy this laptop! This seems, to me, to be a wonderful alternative to a MacBook Pro at a fraction of the price--plus, Mac doesn't speak 1337.

Pros: * Cheap. For the price you can hardly find any better laptops. So I give it five eggs. * Awesome 1080p display. Good contrast and brightness. * Nice keyboard, very comfortable to use. * ATI card, much better than Intel IGP. * It is powerful enough for those who care less about gaming. * Everything except Fn + F5/F6 work out of box for Ubuntu Linux 10.04.

Cons: * Average speakers. * A bit noisy under load. * I used system recovery function to shrink driver C. It takes at least one hour to install the bloatwares and that is very frustrating.

Overall Review: The position of the touchpad is correct. It is under the space key, so you will not touch it when typing.

Pros: 1080p, specs are perfectly fine for everything I use it for. Overall it feels pretty solid. The screen also looks really nice. Graphics card handles games like RoN easily. The keyboard is absolutely fantastic, in my opinion the best I've experienced on a laptop. I personally like the ridged touchpad, but I could see how you might not if you were used to a smooth one.

Cons: Certain parts (the case above the USBs, the CD drive) feels a little flimsy. I'd have liked more USBs, but I guess 3 is enough for a laptop. Fingerprints show up really well on it. Having to make my own recovery disks are kind of a pain, but it seems a lot of companies make you do that now.

Overall Review: I downloaded 23 GB of music from another computer, connected to the network via wireless and the download went fine. I'm looking forward to being able to try out MW2 on it and seeing how the graphics card handles that. I tried putting Linux on it, not sure if I'd consider it usable. Haven't gotten sound working, and support for 5xxx series graphics cards is still new (and slightly buggy) with proprietary drivers and nonexistant with the open source drivers. Suspending/hibernating, CPU scaling, and adjusting screen brightness all work though. Overall if you're looking for 1080p in a <17" screen I'd say this is one of the best options available for the price. I'd definitely recommend it.

Pros: price, 1080P, speakers, blu-ray, has some good sony software, graphics not bad. performance with hd movies and games are pretty good. the cpu is good

Cons: cheap drive ( as in flimsy ), laptop seems overall delicate, slow harddrive it plays blu-ray discs alright but regular dvd's it vibrates too much.

Overall Review: If they could have put a better quality blu-ray drive and a faster hd it would have been 5 eggs. It's still a great computer for the price. its just delicate.

Pros: 1080 resolution Blueray instant internet button number pad

Cons: Battery life was a bit less than expected, and you can't download ATI drivers from their site, you HAVE to use Sony's bloatware/updater suit - but its not THAT terrible. Oh, and it seems strange to happen to so many people, but my outer box was completely crushed in the mail. The inner box and padding protecting the laptop was fine.

Overall Review: Sure you could get an i7 with 1080 for a few hundred more dollars, or you could get a lower resolution for a bit cheaper. But this laptop is a perfect middle. Also, it has a strangely 'large' keyboard for a laptop in my opinion, just takes some getting used to. And the USB ports are all on the same side.

Pros: 15.5" HD Screen looks really good. Plays Blu-ray with no problem. Relatively quick bootup time. Number pad on keyboard is a plus. Very quiet PC. Handles multi-tasking very well, programs open and install quick.

Cons: The box it was shipped in was destroyed (probably due to UPS) but the computer and its packaging were fine. PC runs a bit hot at times, would recommend cooling dock. Battery life is very short.

Overall Review: Have not tried any games yet, but I'm not much of a gamer. So far I am pleased, if anything comes up I'll be sure to post

Pros: 1. 1080p screen is gorgeous, but you should probably change Windows 7 settings to make everything look bigger. By default, the 1080p resolution makes everything on the desktop look tiny. 2. ATI Radeon HD 5470 is much better than the Intel HD Graphics offered in low end notebooks. I can play some relatively light FPS games like Urban Terror just fine. 3. The chiclet keyboard is sturdy (except for the numeric pad area) and is pretty pleasant to type on. 4. There isn't really much spamware/crapware preinstalled on this notebook. I'd recommend to remove the Norton Internet Security trial and replace it with the free and more lightweight "Microsoft Security Essentials". You can also uninstall MS Office if you don't want it. I'd leave everything else. 5. The combo burner drive with Blueray player. You can play movies on the awesome screen or on an HD TV through HDMI output port.

Cons: 1. The laptop emits a high pitched noise. It becomes somewhat louder when you disconnect the battery. Apparently, it's caused by Intel's CPU switching from high to low power mode. Still, it's disheartening that Sony has not sound proofed the CPU or whatever is causing it. The noise is similar to that of older low quality hard drives and is audible only in extremely low noise environments, such as a quiet bedroom. So it's annoying but I can live with it. Plus, the run time of the battery is so short (2 hours, add or subtract) that no one would run this laptop on battery for a long period of time anyways. 2. The ATI graphics chip is pretty low end and won't provide satisfactory performance with newer games. 3. The keyboard in the numeric pad area is not as sturdy as the rest of it. Fortunately, I rarely use the numeric pad. 4. Sony does not prove any discs to restore the operating system if you should replace your hard drive for any reason, so you have to make them yourself.

Overall Review: Overall, I am satisfied. This laptop is a good value at the price I paid (about $820). I do wish it had either better graphics or at least the i5 CPU or both. The 15.5 inch screen is nice, but it makes the notebook pretty large, which makes this system a suitable desktop replacement. It's still small enough that it will fit into any back pack if you want to carry it.