Sony VAIO VGN-SR19VN

For all its lack of connections, the Sony VAIO VGN-SR19VN is an impressive business notebook. It takes the latest Centrino 2 technology and uses it to great effect. If you're looking for a stylish and powerful business tool, this makes more than just a...

For all its lack of connections, the Sony VAIO VGN-SR19VN is an impressive business notebook. It takes the latest Centrino 2 technology and uses it to great effect. If you're looking for a stylish and powerful business tool, this makes more than just a...

Stylish design ; Powerful erformance ; Stunning screen

Limited connectivity ; Average battery life ; Varied build quality

We knew the SR19 would be challenging for a place on our A List the moment we set eyes on it. This laptop may have a price of around £800 exc VAT, but the quality of its design and the number of genuinely useful extras it packs in make it appear like...

Tipping the scales at just 1.9kg, Sony's slender VAIO laptop is light enough to lug with you wherever you need to be. The battery life cruises well over four hours, meaning you don’t need to worry about it flaking out on you. Featherweight it may be,...

Sony has made an odd design choice here, as you’ll find magnesium-alloy on the lid and base, while the inside is plastic, so the build seems odd to the touch. To keep the size down you won’t find as many ports as on other Sony laptops. What’s worse,...

The screen, keyboard and battery life make this a great, lightweight, machine for working on the move. However, it lacks the overall processing power to be your sole PC, which is frustrating, as it’s a really smart little laptop.

A stunning 1.9kg laptop that offers six hours of battery life, but it's the whole bundle - superb design, extra software and a two-year warranty - that lifts it above the rest

screen, keyboard, resolution, build quality, performance

value for money

33% of reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Have my Sony VAIO SR19VN a few months now. Overall I'm not very happy with it and sincerely regret not getting a macbook pro instead at the time which I could have possibly done for what I paid for the SR19VN. I do like the isolated keyboard layout and...

After years of using reliable VAIOs at work, I bought one for home. The screen was dead on arrival and I returned it for a full refund which was handled promptly and without without question. No hard feelings!

brightness of the display

booting (slow) , battery life

I bought this product for serious business use. Its doing its job well enough, and has proved a reliable companion. However, having recently hooked it up to an external monitor (via the optional docking station), I discovered that this model doesn't...