You wouldn't be if you read the article :/

@ Xof

I thought they were going to do this before the whole hacking thing, didn't the PSN getting hacked just delay them.

Xof, If Sony changed their name your comment would be worth something. They are just taking all of their services and putting them under the same name for less confusion. It helps people know what is 3rd party and what is Sony's.

I like Sony TV's, they are right there with Samsung and Panasonic in both quality and to some extent price. LG is pretty good too.

Beyond that, everything Sony sells is horribly overpriced including their laptop whom gets terrible support. They are right there with HP as sh!tty laptops go. I would buy a Toshiba, consumer grade Lenovo or Dell before them any day even at the same price!

Wouldn't surprise me if an Acer is better than a Vaio at all. Acer is relatively high quality for the low price ratio.

Get a Lenovo Thinkpad! Best support among the PC manufacturers and among the best quality. My old Thinkpad came out when Windows XP was the default and Vista wasn't out yet. However, it is happily today running Windows 7 with all the drivers. Lenovo makes sure there are compatible drivers for future OS!

I have to add that, Thinkpad have gone a little downhill since IBM sold the division to Lenovo though.

lol at the comments saying toshiba, acer and hp are better than sony vaios! If you think vaios are overpriced at $600 you should be thinking about finding a better job because I dont think you can afford anything on the market right now!

In my experience with my Vaio, I would have to say that yes it is a bit overpriced. Your really only paying for the brand name and the only reason why I got it was because the physical feel (weight, thickness, etc) of it compared to all the other similar laptops in the price range of $800. But the customer service (at least for me) was the best out of all my past experiences (Lenovo and HP/Compaq).

Lenovo and Vaio are typically the higher quality laptops.

You do pay more for them, but the build quality is a lot higher (aluminium casings etc). Personally, I got a cheap Dell laptop with a simple i3 cpu but a beastly graphics chip because I want to get the best gaming price to performance ratio, but if I had spare money I would have gotten a Vaio.

Bloatware is hardly a concern, considering 100% of all pre-purchased PCs from big companies come with retarded bloatware, that is just the standard and you should immediately install a fresh copy of Windows anyway (and you should never buy a branded desktop anyway because it WILL be a rip-off).

Sony's home digital cameras are the best, but they don't make the best production cameras (they aren't focussed on that market so much). I love my little Sony camera because it actually gives you control over the settings rather then forcing bad presets, saved about £200 by getting it rather than an expensive Cannon designed for photographers just to get that level of control.

They do have the best of everything else pretty much.

It was a time, when Apple wasn't as huge as it is now, but it was getting some recognition, in that time the one to beat was VAIO, maybe it's not as big as it was years ago (mainly cos of the price, I guess), but those laptops have some real good quality...