SONY Laptop VAIO AW Series Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.40GHz) 4GB Memory 250GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 18.4" Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit VGN-AW190JAH

Pros: The features on this laptop for the price are excellent. Had no problems switching from Vista Home Basic Premium to Vista Ultimate, except for two which is in the cons section below. The screen is huge and minimum glare on it, excellent for movies or games. The other reviews say the Blueray drive is noisy and it is if you don't close the drive correctly. Just make sure to fully close the drive and it's pretty quiet, don't softly close it or it'll be loud. The fingerprint scanner is nice, it's my first one and it scans my fingerprint fast and accurately.

Cons: To start off with, the power supply cord is kinda short and you can't find a longer one. I wanted an extra battery or the large capacity battery but I can't seem to find anywhere to buy them, not even on sonystyle.com. I installed Vista Ultimate and installed all the drivers from the Sony site but I still have one device being listed as "Unknown Device" in Device Manager and I can't figure out what it is, I seem to have everything installed and working. Also, I installed the Vaio System Tools package but that gives a battery error saying you have the wrong battery and the laptop goes into hiberate so you can put the right battery in, so don't install the System Tools package in Vista Ultimate. I'm having some issues with the wireless not working correctly too, I've had to reinstall the driver twice now to get it to correctly connect to the wireless networks.

Overall Review: Besides the few errors I'm having with Vista Ultimate, which could be user error and not the laptop, this is a great laptop. The power cord should have been longer but it's manageable. Definitely worth the price considering the 18.4" screen and the HDD being 7200.

Pros: Big and nice screen, Blu-Ray, not heavy for it's size(my old 17" sony is heavier), Great sound, finger security, 512MB video, 4gb memory,full size keyboard,camera, Great design.

Cons: None so far, just thoughts that from 250GB you'll actually have 194 gb available at the time of delivery, but you can save some by deleting some unnessesarry stuff. I tried to play BD movie and the computer was freezing the program(win dvd) 4 times before I finally was able to watch it(I don't know what was the cause-BD-Rom or disk) second movie it read without any problems.

Overall Review: You'll get what you paid for. I got used to my A190 1200x1920 resolution so I was looking for quite some time before I found this model. Before this model came out I was sure I'll buy AR790 series with same specs and 1200x1920 resolution, as in my opinion, Sony making the best screens nowdays, but just before I bought that AW series came out with it's huge 18.4" and I sucrificed some dots for the size. Comparing them one to another by quality of colors made me to think of which one is better. Colors appering to be little bit different and truth to tell I am not sure which one has really true color.If you have a chance to look at AR 1920x1200 model consider it and check it out too before you'll buy this model. Don't buy one with Eco screen as you'll be dissapointed. This AW190 really worth every penny, I will reccommend this model to everyone.

Pros: Size, screen, weight, keyboard, sound, screen, screen, screen! I have my Sony A190 for almost 4 years now and finally decided to upgrade. I got used to Superb 1920x1200 resolution and big 17" so was shopping around for similar model but with reasonable price. Once I saw this I bought it without any thinking and I am glad I did. Everything about this laptop is great. You won't be dissapointed if you'll get it, that's for sure.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: The only thing is that it has the full size keyboard so would have to get use to it. Also, the heat sink fan or video card fan is running all the time but I'll check on it later. The comment about short cabe made me smile as you always can add longer cable to it if you need it. If you'll lower the brightness on it little bit more then minimum you will be able to use this machine for almost 3 hours(including te use of internet) If you are shopping for a desktop replacement with a big screen, don't go no further- that is it.

Pros: Beautiful screen, crisp and bright visuals. Speedy start-up and response time (love the 4gb ram).

Cons: Seems to run a bit warm. Very short battery life when watching blu-ray movies.

Overall Review: Definitely worth the money. Excellent desktop replacement.

Pros: Very fast processor, not a lot of junk pre-loaded. Video card is able to carry modern games at native lcd resolution with all the bells and whistles enabled. Fingerprint to login is also a very nice touch, and the 64bit version of Vista is perceptibly faster than Vista 32bit on my comparable desktop.

Cons: The optical drive is REALLY noisy. Forget trying to use this as a bluray player with the HDMI out, the buzz from vibration will drive you CRAZY.

Overall Review: It's hard to convey just how large the laptop is... Even compared to 17" laptops, this seems exceptionally large. I am happy with it, although I was really looking forward to using it as a bluray player... hopefully I find a way to damp that vibration, as it is unusable for that purpose as it currently stands.

Pros: -HUGE, beautiful display. Wall-E on bluray looks fantastic at full 1080p. -Finger print reader is pretty cool, though haven't found an opportunity to put it to use -Lightweight for as huge as this monster is -Runs Unreal 3 at full resolution, atleast 30 fps.

Cons: -Bloatware is tiresome. As a previous reviewer mentioned, even uninstalling a dozen useless programs leaves the computer running about 70 processes at any given time. It's hard to say what Sony programs are safe to keep and what are safe to toss. What's worse is that there are so many of them. -Takes a little longer to boot up than I would like, and when doing so... eats up roughly 15% of the battery, which brings me to... -.. Pathetic battery life. Having this plugged in, you can take advantage of all this laptop has to offer, but unplugged, you've got not much more than an hour to enjoy even web surfing. Don't even think about playing games unplugged. I don't consider this a knock against the system, after all, the screen is enormous, so a lower battery life is expected.. Just something to consider. -Began behaving strangely last night, now Window's won't even start (Problems detailed below)

Overall Review: .. I've felt pretty proud of such a nice machine, so it was well taken care of. I've browsed the web conservatively and on sites I know to be safe. To my dismay, it began having issues last night. First, it made the noise of plugging and unplugging a USB device. Saying, that there was a malfunctioning USB device. This would happen spontaneously from then on. It just kept popping up the info box and telling me that there was a problem. However, I didn't even have any USB devices even connected at the moment. I'm not proficiently saavy with computers, so my best guess is that one of the internal devices was for some reason not connecting properly. I downloaded the latest updates from Microsoft and Sony and prayed for the best. Since then, I've had difficulty in getting the system to even boot up. The Vaio logo usually appears, but from there, it freezes. I've very dissapointed and feel conflicting updates and needless bloatware have congested the poor machine. NEWEGG!!

Pros: Good Power, Excellent Card! out of the box runs at a 5.3 for the windows experience rating. The Nvidia card was a huge selling point for me. This laptop has delivered. Playing COD5, Fallout 3 at max settings with very little lag. Great desktop replacement. Highly recommended

Cons: Had some issues with the 64x vista install usb devices not being recognized. easy fix. When playing games it seems to get a little hot. but nowhere near other gaming laptops.

Overall Review: The pre packaged software really is a downer, a good hour to uninstall all that junk. a bigger HD or would be nice. other then that, great system!

Pros: Amazing screen quality, plays Blu-Ray with no real draw backs. Nice video card; sails through Fallout 3 and CoD 4 with little issue.

Cons: Bloatware, short battery life when gaming

Overall Review: Overall excellent machine for a desktop replacement laptop.