Sony VAIO RA830G

Liquid cooling means a quiet tower PC. Large storage capacity for videos. Wireless keyboard and mouse, and 5.1 surround speakers included

Tower chassis is less living-room friendly than other models designed like audiovisual gear. No HDTV tuner

The Sony VAIO VGC-RA830G is a near-silent home desktop that can serve as both a powerful desktop PC and as the central repository of your digitally connected home. As an evolution of VAIO's already wonderful design, it has entered the realm of...

Nice to see reviews where someone keeps it for a day. This thing is great. Quiet, dependable. Easy to upgrade. It has new Ram and I upped the HD after 3 years to a new larger one. I finally upped the Video card as well. The main thing is it still works...

bought it at CompUSA today, try to recover the system, having the same problem as above (took me 2 hours to make the recovery disc too). got to return it. never buy a SONY computer agaian.

The RA8xxx Series from Sony is very nice. Big plus is the cooling system. The machine is super quiet. The integrated Home Media support is a nice bonus. I don't think I'd want to use one of these as a TiVo replacement but for a home machine it's tough...

The RA8xxx Series from Sony is very nice. Big plus is the cooling system. The machine is super quiet. The integrated Home Media support is a nice bonus. I don't think I'd want to use one of these as a TiVo replacement but for a home machine it's...

Just bought this yesterday at compusa. Will be taking it back tomorrow morning. This is the 5th computer I have owned and the worse I have ever seen. Sony has allot of wonderful software on this system and impressive 5.1 speakers that come with it. But...