Includes: lithium-ion battery, AC adapter, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition with SP2, Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition, Quicken 2005 New User Edition, WinDVD, Works 8.0, Office 2003 60-day trial (Student/Teacher Edition), Roxio DigitalMedia SE, & more. Sony Vaio FS VGN-FS760/W Notebook Computer - This laptop computer combines advanced multimedia features with the tools you need for everyday computing on the road. With the 15.4" widescreen LCD, you can enjoy DVD movies the way they were meant to be seen. Or make your own DVD creations with the built-in DVD writer and included original Sony software. 100GB 4200RPM HDD 512MB of PC3200 DDR2 SDRAM (expandable up to 2GB) NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400 with TurboCache supporting 128MB of memory Double Layer DVD Writer - (write speeds) up to 2.4x Double Layer DVD+R, 8x DVD-R, 8x DVD+R, 4x DVD-RW, 4x DVD+RW, 24x CD-R, & 10x CD-RW Double Layer DVD Writer - (read speeds) up to 8x DVD-ROM & 24x CD-ROM 56k v.90 Data/Fax Modem Built-in Stereo Speakers Ports - 10/100 Ethernet, VGA Out, 3 USB 2.0, 4-pin Firewire, & Printer Built-in Memory Stick(R) Media Slot - supports Memory Stick, Memory Stick(R) PRO, & Memory Stick(R) DUO media 1 PCMCIA Type I/II Card Slot with CardBus support External Color - White
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Decent Enough - but can be better:
This was my first Laptop, purchased early in 2006. I still use it today - and after three years of heavy usage, I can say that the laptop performed reliably and overall a decent purchase. The mistake I made was buying it in a big electronics store instead of doing it online which would have saved me a considerable packet of money. The Processor is a Pentium Mobile 7XX series with about 1.83GHz speed. This was the last of the processors in Notebook before the Dual Core processors came into picture.more info
After almost 3 years, doesn't hold up well:
My wife is the primary user of this laptop. She takes pretty good care of it, although admittedly not the BEST care of it. Some of the keyboard buttons don't work anymore. One of them is her fault, the rest are just wear and tear. The left mouse button has to be mashed very hard to respond as do some of the other keys. The battery life was never very good and now it doesn't work at all - and the power cable has a short in it so if you dont hold it just right it turns off. Very annoying. At first it was a... more info
Not all that exciting.... and not too terribly robust.:
It's a PC after all. Anyway, a bit on the slow side, but used it from time to time to do things that were not supported via Mac. Worked pretty OK. Until today. The Ethernet connection no longer works... no matter what I plug into it, it does not recognize anything as being plugged in. Probably used it all of 80 hours, maybe... Pretty cr***y, if you ask me. (Personally never had anything so significant fail on any of my Macs.)
VAIO VGN FS760:
Great screen and decent keyboard. The battery life is pretty good for me, I've gotten 3 hours out of it if wlan is off and I'm only running Word or Excell. What keeps me from giving it 5 stars is the software bundle (no nero burning rom, and roxio sucks) and the graphics card. Dedicated or not, 128 or not, virtually no ATI products, including tv tuners work with this machine. I'm not sure if this is ATI's fault or Nvida's but I'm still stuck with my TV Wonder USB 2 and I can't get it to work.
