Sony Vaio VPC-Z12M9E

Nice looking laptop, Good well spaced backlit keyboard, Fast hard drive. Has been reliable for last 2 yrs.

No usb 3, can not easily upgrade ssd without taking laptop keyboard off, very small text on 13.1 screen with 1080 resolution

At the time the was probably the best ultraportable on the market. but with a built in DVD. Full Size HDMI and VGA and ethernet connections, no silly micro adapters. The 1600x900 screen in reality is a better choice than the 1080x1024 screen for...

Expensive at the time, but then there was no alternative, 2 years later similar spec laptops are half the price.. The previous VPCZ11 models had issues with Screws coming loose connecting hinge to screen, fixed on this VPCZ12 Motherboard blew on mine...

It is slim and light weight. Good design.

Easy to get scratch

Fast, but I paid for I7 processor and solid state hard drive Z series, with the highest possible configuration supplied by the company

Service by Company is appalling. It keeps giving me error about Video display adapter crashed and has been recovered. The laptop was sent back to company after being bumped from one pillar to another post for almost a month. The laptop finally came...

Very light, very fast.

The wireless management is a puzzle and it sometimes stops communicating for no reason and needs a reboot. Also the power management has caused the screen to black out when switching from charging to just battery.

Size and weight are excellent

Battery life is appaling and even worse when I activated the battery protection protocol. If Mac can make their computers run 10 hours so should you. I notice ZERO effect of using the stamina button. Windows 7 is an improvement on Vista but after...

The speakers are well below par. If you listen to music, you'll need additional speakers or headphones.