Sony VAIO E Series SVE11113FXW Laptop (Windows 7 Home, AMD E-Series Dual-Core E2-1800 1.7 GHz Processor, 11.6 inches Display, SSD: 500 GB, RAM: 4 GB DDR3) Seafoam White

Update: So day 2 of this netbook and the USB 3.0 drivers failed and so did the USB 2.0 drivers. I tried many times using the vaio care recovery tools and I didnt get no where. I contacted the online support who entered the netbook thru Remote Access.At first I was impressed Sony CS was instantly in my new Netbook. After a little bit, I noticed the CS was only doing the same exact things I had done and the things I had mentioned during our conversation. WHICH I GUESS THEY DIDNT READ.They said to send it in and it was due to hardware failure. Two problems with this. Its Friday and I need this for a Family Emergency/Vacation. Since this netbook DOES NOT come with a recovery disk, further driving down the stars.So not wanting to quit on this new gear, I pulled out a SSD from another PC and uploaded Windows 7 from a Install disk I had from updating. After I registered my Windows and downloaded all the updates, I started working on the Sony Vaio support software.BEWARE: If you recover this way and use the sony support software from the web you will have problems. Do not install the Sony Applications. They add Agent/Trojans that say this Sony Vaio Battery isnt a Sony Vaio battery. Hot Key Fix download is the culprit.After a while I was still having trouble with the USB 3.0 driver. I contacted Sony Chat and they said for me to hold on while, while they reviewed my previous session. I had explained I switched out the HD drive for an SSD and the USB ports are all working. THERE WAS NO HARDWARE FAILURE.The CS "Seth" came back and said the same thing. "Just send it in," he said.I explained that I need this for the family emergency/vacation and sending in a laptop for a driver is unacceptable.During this time he said he would review the previous chat once again to see if he could get anymore info.I asked that he use his REMOTE ACCESS TOOL once again. He declined and said once again. "SEND IT IN"For a driver. No thank you.VAIO CARE BRINGS THIS PRODUCT DOWN TO 1 Star. No real support even with a warranty.I would explain to others how I was able to fix it, but I rather Sony lose money from lack of sales.Original: There are alot of pros to this netbook like the other reviewer stated. I only received it this morning and after updating Windows 7, I only score a 3.9 for processor speed. Disappointing as the new Acer Aspire One AO725-0899 has a older AMD CPU that gets a 5.2 on WEI, AMD c_series_dual_core_c_60 Processor 1GHz (1MB Cache).The screen surprisingly looks sharper on the ACER than this Sony???The only reason I went with this netbook was because its for my wife...... ;-)The benefit over the Acer are the 2 Ram slots, bigger Hard Drive, and longer battery power.They both have pretty much the same I/O's. This is a new processor that was released June 05, 2012 so I may be complaining about nothing that a future update may be able to handle.If I could give it 3.5 stars I would. I will rate higher if it gets fixed.Tip: This netbook is set to start with only one Processor. You will have to change it in "MSCONFIG" in "advanced options" under the "Boot Tab." Also check no GUI boot. Saves time too. I also removed some non windows services and startup programs.

There's a lot to love about this little bugger.First of all, it's light and small. It's just large enough to be comfortable to type on.I'm a big fan of AMD, a company local to me where several of friends work, but I admit their chips are not at quite at level Intel's are for raw performance. This is not the most powerful laptop, but it is snappy for web surfing and decodes h.264 basically instantly. For Netflix, web surfing, document editing, and other every day uses, this laptop is up to the task.For games, I found the framerates surprisingly pretty good for Dead Space, but it struggled with La Noire. Skyrim on medium settings was playable.Battery life is excellent. It's been on for five hours now.Keyboards are a matter of personal taste. I prefer the old Thinkpad keyboards, but this island style is more attractive and has a nice feel. I can type around 80% as fast on this laptop as I can on my desktop.There isn't too much bloatware installed... Sony is better about this than most, but I removed the Office trial, Kapersky, and Windows "Essentials". It didn't make much difference in performance.The screen is small but gorgeous; the fit and finish is as good as any laptop I've ever had. I glanced at how to disassemble it and it plainly would be an enormous pain, like most laptops these days.There is no optical drive. No blu ray, no DVD, no CD. If you have access to a computer with such a drive, you can easily make isos and mount them for use on this computer, but I download everything these days. I think a laptop is better without the extra parts.I strongly advise replacing the hard drive in this laptop with an SSD. The boot times and program loading with this setup are incredibly fast. This makes a bigger difference to most users than a more powerful processor would.This is an outstanding laptop at a reasonable price. I paired it with  Case Logic QNS-111 11.6-Inch EVA Molded Netbook Sleeve (Black) , which fits the laptop well and provides a lot of protection.

I shopped iPad, and at $500+, no keyboard included, it was a non-starter. Another Apple option in the extremely portable category, the MacBook Air, priced itself out of contention at $1100, and had the nerve to feature a paltry 64GB hard drive and crap battery life.Other 11.6 inch windows machines were mostly more expensive, and featured fewer inputs and outputs. Lots of ins and outs are important to me (I stream via HDMI, and occasionally use a VGA projector), and I was pleased with this tiny computer's assortment: a VGA output, plus HDMI, plus three USB ports. The battery life is in the 5 hour range, and it features 500 GB of hard drive space. I use mine to stream video from Netflix, Amazon, and MLB.TV, and I do a lot of typing. I've put my entire 100GB+ iTunes library on board. The keyboard, despite being small, is not difficult to use, with textured, island-type keys.Downsides are scant and easy to ignore or come to terms with: Sony packs in some useless software (all can be de-installed or turned off), the Office Starter pack is a joke, and the trackpad takes a little getting used-to. Literally everything you turn off or ignore can be replaced by Chrome and google drive.