Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41000 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: DRU-190A
• Released on: 2007-05-13
• Dimensions: 5.95 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Beautiful image quality is essential for business, especially if you make a lot of multimedia presentations. Sporting the very latest X-black LCD technology, the VAIO FZ-Series gives you an ultra bright, glare-free screen that's great for working outdoors. Here's one of the most compact notebooks around with a 15.4" screen - barely larger in size than most 14" notebooks!. Sony have gone back to basics, redesigning the batteries and motherboard to create a truly mobile machine weighing 2.7 kilos that's light enough to take to meetings, conferences and home for the weekend!. Powered by the awesome Intel Core 2 Duo processor and with 2048MB of memory on board, this notebook easily handles a vast range of multimedia tasks. It features the new ultra efficient Intel Centrino Duo processor technology and a generous 120GB hard disc drive for storing all your files and folders. Working on the move is faster, easier and more secure with new Windows Vista Business. It's sleek and streamlined design looks good by your side whether you're in the office or on the way to client meetings. The VAIO FZ-Series is elegantly finished in black and silver to reflect your professional image and strong enough to take the rough and tumble of business travel. A perfect combination of style and practicality. There's nothing like face-to-face communication to get your message across. With an integrated camera and microphone on your notebook, it's easy to hold instant video discussions with customers and colleagues wherever you are in the world. You can also save time and improve your efficiency in the office by cutting back on time-consuming meetings. Working and communicating from airports, train stations and client receptions can be a challenge. The VAIO FZ-Series makes that challenge as easy as possible with a variety of special buttons including a one touch wireless switch to fire up your wireless LAN and useful shortcut keys to save on mouse clicks. Don't make life harder than it needs to be!.

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Customer Reviews

Excellent Laptop
I bought this laptop this week, fast excellent delievery from amazon. The price was amazing for what this laptop offers, you could buy the same model but with more ram and hd, but who needs it for the extra few hundred pounds you pay. i read reviews on this laptop that were a bit concerning, like the lack of gaming ability. however, so far the laptop has been perfect under every catagory, i can easliy play high ram usage games, windows vista works great and boasts many new features, the screen is beautiful, and crystal clear, the speed is great, and has no issues multi tasking different programs. the look of the laptop is superb, its light, very solid, key board is nice to use, and it just generally looks great. the only issue ive had was with the built in mouse, but that takes getting used to and im used to using a external mouse. the wireless is great, and picks up signal fast easily and from great range, even with unreliable sky broadband. last but not least. it has voice recognition, which i found last nite. i can open all areas of the laptop, just by talking to it. for instance you would say. open internet explorer - adress bar - www. .... its really that easy, precise and very fast. simple incredible!

this is a great product. for 700 you cannot go wrong! its a buy it now situation for anyone, who cant go above 1000. and even so youde be hard pushed to find a better deal. blu ray with rewrter, hd connection, x black screen and vista with the newest processer.

for anyone doubting this and wether to buy or not. it will do everything u want it to do and more! if you need a good, top end laptop for a great price. this is your only choice! BUY NOW!

Superb laptop with excellent value for money!!
I've been enamoured by Sony Vaio laptops since I first bought one 4 years ago. It never gave me a problem, while my friends' HPs, Dells and Toshibas developed some problem or the other within 3 years. The reason I bought the FZ21M was because I wanted a faster laptop with Vista....no problems with my old Sony Vaio yet.

What striked me immediately on opening the package was its weight & sleekness. This has to be amongst the most beautiful laptops in the market, only beaten by the Sony Vaio CR series (I opted for the former as it offered a Blu-Ray as well, & is much cheaper). The screen is the best I have seen in a laptop. Watch blu-ray movies & it will leave you spellbound! The keyboard is extremely comfortable to use.

This laptop is quite generous in its configuration, with 200 GB HDD (5400 rpm), 2GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 2GB RAM. There is a lot of bloatware pre-loaded which needs uninstalling. Overall, this certainly is one of the best laptops around. A newer model, the FZ31M has arrived, but there is absolutely no difference between this and the 31M (I confirmed this with Sony helpdesk).

I am very impressed with Amazon for their service. There was a problem with my laptop (a manufacturing defect) for which I emailed Amazon. They responded within 30 mins and advised me to contact Sony service. Sony tried to solve my problem, but eventually advised me to return the laptop to Amazon for a replacement. This time, I used the call back facility, & sure enough, Amazon called me within few seconds!! Returning the laptop was not a hassle at all. I just had to print a returns label & stick it on top of my package, & DHL collected it from my house for free! Absolutely seamless. My replacement laptop is perfect. Amazon is the best!!

Just an additional note on the product: The manufacturer's description of the laptop on amazon is misleading.
1) This laptop has 200GB HDD, and not 120 GB.
2) The laptop comes with Windows vista Home Premium, and not Vista Business.
3) It also contains a blu-ray drive to play blu-ray discs (you cannot record on blu-ray discs). This is not mentioned in the description.

Hope it helps. Dear Amazon, please correct the mistakes.

Sony VGN-FZ21M Review
I work with computers and am therefore confident when it comes to purchasing the technology. On that point this laptop packs a lot for the price. Blue-ray player gives it long shelf life since HD is dead and thus blue ray will become the standard. It plays call of Duty 4 with no problems at all, connects to my sony tv allowing me to use a 32 inch monitor and best of all the specifications on it rival todays computer. The graphics card is 256mb but can call upon a lot more memory from the system if required. Overall the computer scores a 4.6 on the Windows Vista rating system and with 5.6 being the highest, this laptop does well. There is a lot of preloaded software on board but removing it is straight forward with control panel.