I recently received a new laptop for work, it’s a Sony Vaio.  The design is a lot like the mac’s – silver with big-ish trackpad.  The keyboard is recessed with separated, “chiclets” keyboard buttons – they work pretty nice.

I really like the super wide screen 16.4 diagonal with 16:9 aspect ratio.  It’s really more like the size of a 17″ computer, but a bit shorter.  I like it – really wide.

I’m running Vista Ultimate, which seems really nice, it tends to be a bit finiky about the video driver.  It shouldn’t – but I guess this laptop is not really compatible with Vista Ultimate.

Other than that – the blu-ray is very cool.  The fit and finishis probably the best.

The one thing that does make me mad is the number lock.  I’ve never had a laptop that when you use an extended keyboard and have the number lock “locked”, that when you disconnect or undock the laptop keyboard keeps the number lock locked on it’s built-in keyboard.  It’s not a huge deal, but when you are first logging onto the computer you miss the fact that it is locked and end up fumbling the password two or three times before you realize.

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