Sony VAIO LV1S 24" All in One PC With Full HD, Blu-ray Disc Drive, Vista Home Premium Product Description:
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24 inch Full HD all-in-one personal computer with Blu-ray Disc drive....
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
By Ed
This is the second VAIO desktop that I have owned and I am very happy with the great spec and performance. they fit very well in a home office where space for the 'box' is limited. Here it is all built in to the back of the flat screen. Wireless keyboard and mouse. They seem much more reliable than VAIO laptops which are not so robust against being bounced around. Would have preferred not to have had Vista. Otherwise great.
36 of 37 people found the following review helpful.
By Kevin Long
After months and months of deliberation I finaly settled on a new computer, my previous laptop had served me for 6 years, but the move into HD camcorder necessitated the need for a better computer, as my laptop would not even burn DVD discs.Now I do IT for a living, and so I can't stand Microsft Vista, love XP, hate Vista. So I decided the Apple MAC was the way forward. So I really thought I would plump for an iMAC 24 inch, because all the good things that people say about MACS,and I really wanted a change from the Microsoft OS.However the iMAC as I discovered had some very seriuos flaws for me, these being1 No Blu Ray reader or writer built in. Yes we can go and buy an external one, but I wanted a one box solution with only 1 wire, which both the Sony and the iMAC are but I have a PS3, and a a nice collection of HD films, but I can't watch these on the iMAC and even if you had an external Blu Ray disc player which the iMAC does support it won't allow you to watch the movies on there. That for me was a very big let down. Both the iMAC 24 and the Sony are the same price, but the Sony comes with a Blu Ray writer and I can also watch my Blu Ray movies on it which is good if the wife is watching the other telly.2 The iMAC cannot deal with native full HD, so when you hook up your camcorder to the iMAC, you can import from the camcorder but programs like iMOVIE downscale the resolution to 1440. You cannot export out the footage at the same resolution. So if you have one of the AVCHD camcorders your going to loose quality when you import it. The other problem here is that the iMAC will not out of the box play the files directly from another source, you have to present them to the iMAC via the camcorder, so if like me you have the files on your PS3, you have to get them back onto the camcorder to present them to the iMAC, there is a way round this but it requires the files to be converted, shame. The Sony will just play them either via Windows Media Player 11 or the Picture Motion Browser.3 No TV tuner in the iMAC, not a great deal really, but its a nice to have for a one box solution.The Sony has a better performance for the price, but smaller hard drive capacity, does have Blu Ray reader and writer, and the same 24 inch screen, although this is widescreen. I like the Sony, but I hate the mouse design, looks very cheap, but the keyboard is okay.There are plenty of connections with the Sony too, 5 USB, and these are not used by the mouse or keyboard, memory card slots and Wi Fi and Blue Tooth.I think that if this particular model had not been released with the Blu ray, I would still be deliberating over an iMAC, but this box ticks all my requirements for a new computer, and brings me right up to speed with being in the high definition era of both viewing HD movies but also being able to watch and edit my HD home movie content.Don't get me wrong, i am not Apple bashing, and I really really wanted a MAC, I wanted something fresh, and the design of them is brilliant, but the Blu Ray and lack of proper HD support were too big of an issue for me.I will be getting Windows 7 as well to remove this disgrace of an operating system called Vista.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
By S. Harris
Got one, was ok for 12 months, then blu ray performance disappeared. Can't watch blu-ray movies & can't read/write to blu ray media. Sony helpdesk is on the other side of the world and try to avoid dealing with the issues. Not fit for purpose and you should avoid like the plague!
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