Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #13837 in Personal Computers
- Color: black
- Brand: Sony
- Model: PCG-FRV37
- Platform: Windows XP Home Edition
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.72 pounds
- CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
- Memory: 512MB DDR SDRAM
- Hard Disk: 60GB
- Graphics: ATI RADEON 64MB
- Processors: 1
- Networking: 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Ethernet
- Battery type: Lithium Ion
- Native resolution: 1024-by-768
- Display size: 15
- Included Software: Microsoft Money 2004, Microsoft Works 7.0, Microsoft Encarta Online, Sony Click to DVD, DVgate Plus, AOL, Microsoft Age of Empires, Norton Internet Security Center Trial
Features
- 2.80-GHz Pentium 4
- 512 MB RAM (Memory)
- 60 GB Hard Drive
- DVD-RW/CD-RW Drive
Sony VAIO PCG-FRV37 Laptop (2.80-GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive, DVD-RW/CD-RW Drive)
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Weak contender
By A Customer
Steer clear from the FRV series from SONY. Sony makes great products but this is not the one. Go with the GRT series for any multimedia graphics needs. I owned this laptop for 12 days and had numerous issues including the DVD-R was DOA. Pinnacle studio 8 crashed every time. Benchamrk scores compared this 2.8 p4 to 1.8 p4's .... not good. On a positive note the LCD is beautifull, great keyboard and design, Nice Sony software package. This is not a desktop replacement though. And with the inability to do any multimedia with the limited IGP, it renders the DVD-R useless anyway.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome Perfomance, Heavy, A Desktop Replacement
By Adam F. Jewell
If you are looking for a portable computer this SONY is simply awesome. A notebook or laptop it is not; its big and heavy by todays standards but the performance is fantastic!
The Gateway desktop died (will never buy from them again) and couldn't be brought back to life so I decided to pick up a "notebook". The FRV37 is blazing fast, the screen is large, bright and clear & its got plenty of HD space (if you need more consider getting an external USB hard drive). With a CD and a DVD burner you really don't need a desktop machine anymore. It comes with a nice software bundle. Its got firewire built in and is great for capturing video from digital video cameras. If you go on vacation, take this computer, a Sony or Canon Digitial video cam and an Olympus digital camera and everyone on the trip can go home with CDs or DVDs of the trip.
Buy this machine if you want to replace your desktop, you don't need long bettery life (it gets about 2 hours max), and you want something portable but not light weight. The only thing missing is built in wireless but for about $50.00 you can get a wireless card that will do the trick. This computer has NEVER crashed unlike all previous computers (desktops from Gateway) that crashed frequently.
Only 4 stars because its heavy, has short battery life and missing built in wireless.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.They don't give you all of the facts
By A Customer
First of all, even though this is a 60 gig drive, you only get 50 g of usable space. Seems they reserved 10g for restoring. You are supposed to be able to use some dvd-rw to restore it (there is no restore cd included), however, it won't let me. I'm not about to sit down w/ 10+ cd-r's to do this. They give you lots of software, but nothing that great. I had been using an old version of Quicken. The Quicken 2003 that came with it would not let me import the info w/o buying the upgraded version.
All in all it's a good package though. the documentation that comes in the box is more ad's for sony products than actual info on your $1600 investment. I can't find out the actual dvd burning speed, but it appears that it is only 1x. boo
This barely gets the fourth star.
Good, but could have been better.
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