meh, believe whatever you want. sony may have made some improvements over the last couple years, but i still wouldn't buy one. the rest are still crap, have always been crap, and aren't changing any time soon. you can add gateway to that list, too.

http://pcworld.com/article/id,123409...9/article.html
http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/...iod-210708.php

apparently, e-machines makes pretty good notebooks.