SONY VAIO VGN-C25G & Windows Vista

May 28, 2007 | Category: Reflections & Musings

I was busy editing and cropping my photos to put up on my blog when I realized I haven’t set up my FTP yet! Yes, I’m now using my spankin’ new SONY VAIO in Seashell White. I don’t normally do reviews but maybe just a short one. I’m not an expert on these things, although I shall give it a try.

As I mentioned, my SONY laptop is suppose to be in seashell white. Well, not so white; it was kinda disappointing when only found out the white isn’t all white. In fact, it looked a lot more like silver to me. Trust me, never ever believe whatever you see on photo! Yes, keyboard is white and all, the whole laptop is silver (or white whatever you want to call it). Thank God for that, because my colleagues Spring Green isn’t entirely green; the bottom part of it is black. I’m sorry for not having any photos but if you’re curios you can check one out here.

The laptop comes installed with the new Windows VISTA. I’m still getting a hang of it though. The new keyboard and the new system. If you haven’t gotten the new Windows Vista, I probably recommend you not. There are pros and cons to it I suppose. I just dislike that whatever you do, it always asks for permission. It’s good if you’re anal about security but for someone like me, I get a little bit impatient. I’m not sure if anyone else has encountered this problem but I’ve experience Windows nearly crashing on me a few times. It’ll recover itself but it makes you wonder how reliable the system is.

Another thing I’m not happy about this laptop is the volume control. I noticed that the loudness of the speaker isn’t that good. I suppose it depends on the player. I’m yet to test it further.

This laptop is Intel Core 2 Duo at 1.66 GHz with 1GB RAM, though there are times when the system stalls and whatever I have on will become unresponsive. One weird thing, whenever I have my Yahoo! Messenger on, I can’t seem to play the radio. Once I click on play, the whole messenger will become unresponsive and this not only happens on my laptop.

I suppose there’s no perfect laptops out there unless someone else would like to prove me wrong. Apart from the very few problems I’ve been experiencing, everything else is fine. Again, this review is purely personal and based on what I’ve experienced since getting it about a week or so ago.

3 Comments

  1. Menuka
    on April 5th, 2008
    1

    Absolutely True,
    You are not the only person complaining about this. I have the same one like your colleagues “Spring Green” I like the color and I don’t mind the bottom part of it “black” but I hate about its volume. When I listen my online tutorials “Macromedia Flash Player” I barely hear it. so, I have to use my head-set all the time.

    Windows crashing… yes I had the same situation even just after I started to use this then number of times after that. I tried to remove “Vista” and install XP on this but there are no drives available for SONY VGN-C25G/G so I had to keep vista even I do not like it.

    I had to format my hard disk number of times and I upgrade 1GB RAM to 2GB but I can’t see any difference yet. This laptop is not even one year old.
    I have changed this laptop long time if this is not a birthday present from my husband.

  2. Kaushik
    on June 16th, 2008
    2

    my VGN-c25g has got some problem with its display,suddenly just in the middle of my work.all stripes and colourful dots,i am shoking,not able to get rid of this,haven’t taken it to any servcing center too.Have u gys ever exprinced that prom,if so plz help me to recover me..plzzzzz help.m in deep trouble

  3. John Shewsbury
    on June 17th, 2008
    3

    I own SONY VAIO VGN-C25G (pink) runs Vista Ultimate and I also use SONY VAIO VGN-SZ38GP (black) at work, runs Win XP Pro SP3.

    I can undertsand about your complains on the color and the appearence side. My VGN-C25G is pink on top and the bottom part is black… the bottom part is ugly.

    And I also agree with you about the speaker. It is not the best speaker from Sony ever, just an average type. It’s not loud enough, that’s for sure.

    However on the Vista part, I use Vista Ultimate on my VGN-25G and after spend 11 days of learning, I managed to “customize” everything and then it runs PERFECT.

    My advise is turn off all the eye candy Vista features, switch off the Aero effects and other graphical effects and choose the “Optimize For Performance” setting.

    This will make the Vista interface looks like XP or 2000 but more stable and no more stupid crash or “not responding” problem

    Anf of coz, upgrade your RAM to 2GB and if possible use the “Vista Ready Boost” features.

    Trust me, after you done with all the mod/hack & customization, you will love using your VGN-C25G

    I had my share of screaming with Vista but it’s over now. I love my VAIO VGN-C25G. You should be proud to own a VAIO, not many people can afford it though.

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