Trading brand new sony vaio s (i5 sandy bridge, 5 days of use), for this computer

Yeah, the vaio is terrible, because it over heats and makes awful noise like a hair dryer, when you do something more than just web browsing. I exchanged it twice at the sony store. I am desperate of getting rid of it and don't know what to do.

I use Stamina mode and it still heats.

No no no... it's like the sony vaio s, you can remove the battery by unscrewing it, and replace it by another one. Only the macbooks don't have this feature.

Yeah, well it's the same problem with other laptops anyway : It's hard to find a second battery. Only now, you need a screwdriver

Well, from my experience, I thick plastic laptop is hard to bend, whereas a thin metal laptop is highly bendable.

So I have reservations on the durability of the laptop.(keyboard flex, screen flex)

Guess I will be waiting for a thick and heavy laptop.

The only thing preventing me from buying this laptop is the design. I just hate the blue metal finish, the silver area around the keyboard, the black keys... I just wish they kept everything the same color, like the vaio s.

Everything else is perfect : specs, battery life, size and weight, features, price...

I really don't want to start a fight here . But from my subjective point of view, I don't like the design because it's too complicated . I like simple designs.

The main reason to buy the vaio s is the design, it looks sharp But the main reason NOT to buy the vaio s is the NOISE, that's why I got a refund

Well, my eyes are on the hp G4 (the red one). I love the design

A few pics :
http://h20424.www2.hp.com/campaign/consume...book/g4/gallery

This post has been edited by fo-fo-fo-fo: Apr 20 2011, 04:39 PM

Pavilion G4, i5-2410M + AMD HD6470@RM2349

Yeah, the specs are less powerful, the battery life is shorter, it's a little heavier...but the design is so much nicer (especially in real life), that I am actually going to pick this over the 4830tg

Plus, the standard non-chiclet keyboard is so much easier and faster to type on... But still, despite the ugly design (my subjective point of view), the acer 4830tg is just better in every aspect. Ha ! I would rather stare at the g4 everyday than the acer 4830tg.

As the years go by, the specs in your laptop become less relevant, and the outer look is the only thing that persists overtime. The only concern for me is having a good processor and a decent graphics card (nvidia or ati), so I can choose pretty much any laptop.

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Added on April 20, 2011, 7:53 pmDid you see the hp g4 on the link above ?

Anyways, any cooler master pad made of metal shall do. It's not like you have much choice, they're all the same

This post has been edited by fo-fo-fo-fo: Apr 20 2011, 07:53 PM

That's exactly what I like about it : no faux chrome, no metal...it's plain and simple like a macbook, only it comes in red. Yeah, it's a red macbook