Who let the trolls out, who, who, who! I find Sony Laptops to be a good product. If you are looking for standard components like screen, processor, bios, memory, video, keyboard, hard drive, pointing device, networking, sound, etc... They are above average (and dell) for the quality and combinations of offered systems. Most major laptop manufacturers do not offer good selection and customization of the standard components listed, Sony is no exception, yet it seems to come the closest. Such as including larger screen size with non-Intel processors (self named performance PC’s), as well as high volume HD’s, and memory. Sony does not yet offer the top end components with the arguably equal if not superior (recently) AMD Processors, yet it does offer high-end components while Dell does not even offer AMD Processors. Dell claims not to have an under the table agreement with Intel. This would be much like a car dealership that only sells Porsche yet claims to deal in all sports cars, you ask for a Ferrari and are told it is not defined as a sports car, how about a Lamborghini? No! Only Porsche, do they pay all your advertising costs or something?
there are absolutely no absolutes