Sony Vaio VGN-CR42Z/N

performance, usability, reliability, durability, design

price, battery

100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Its all good, theres nothing bad i can say about it all realy. Im a student so all its features make it handy whatever you need to do.

Beautiful design. Good spec. Great screen. Good multi-taaking performance.

Shorter battery life than expected. Heavy (but all laptops are!). Slowish start up - but is this Vista? (Am used to XP)

The SONY VGNCR42ZR T8300 is exactly what you would expect from a Sony the design is great the performance is great and if you have used other makes you will see why it costs a little more.

None as yet only time will tell.

Beautiful laptop with excellent specs at a good price point.

Too much of bloatware comes bundled, but it's a minor niggle.

Very attractive, fast and light laptop

Battery rattles a little in the unit

It works, it is reasonably light and flexible, has 3 USB ports, has S-Video out and the option to play DVDs without starting Windows. The hard drive is a decent size as is the memory. Screen is up to the excellent Sony Standard.

Probably unfair to blame the PC, I would be more likely to blame Vista, if the option had been available I would have gone for XP. Given the spec (4Gb Ram) and 2.4 Ghz processor I expected it to be significantly faster than my last Vaio Laptop which...

Very neat and portable

Would like to have longer usage when on battery power as spare battery is very expensive. Also, would have expected at least the provision of a slip case in order to protect the ultra smart red top

Good definitions Great design User-friendly

Eventhough it's 4 Giga RAM, it's still take a little bit longer than I thought to start up

Loads up quickly. Meaty spec. Comes with a good selection of software. Looks and feels nice.

Screen is a little small, but that does mean it is lighter.