I pre-ordered this laptop through Amazon so I could avoid the upgrade path of buying a laptop with vista and needing to hassle with the free upgrade. So I was waiting 3 weeks and anticipating having a cool huge beautiful spiffy computer. It is all that, but with that said, the windows 7 home premium is stripped down so i cant setup machinee to network with my work/office network and printers. So I had to buy a freaking anytime upgrade for 89.99 to get enterprise functionality. BS! I also learned that if you want language functionality you need to anytime upgrade to 7 ultimate. ALSO, problem with internet explorer 8 working with windows 7. I couldn't get my outlook to work right when attempting to launch a browser session from within outlook, clicking on an embedded link. After spending 3 hours with a knowledgeable friend trying to edit the registry settings, gave up and installed mozilla firefox.
The laptop is a desktop replacement so it eats battery life! great multmedia machine, quite impressive when pulling it out for clients for powerpoint show. The best thing I like so far is that I can zoom my browser session to 150% and dont need to use reading glasses when on-line and don't need to scroll sideways on the bottom scroll bar to see the whole web link or document.
I am not happy with Microsoft not doing the development work ahead of time and not being told ahead of time that the windows 7 home premium is really lame and offer me a reduced price upgrade path when i ordered the laptop. They should offer a $50 adder to get windows 7 professional and $100 for the ultimate version. Get more detail about Sony VAIO VGN-AW420F/H 18.4-Inch Gray Laptop (Windows 7 Home Premium).
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