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Sony VAIO® TR2A PC NotebookYou can count on Sony to advance the state of the art season after season. With the award-winning VAIO TR2A Notebook, you can witness that...
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You can count on Sony to advance the state of the art season after season. With the award-winning VAIO TR2A Notebook, you can witness that Sony ingenuity in action. This unit is incredibly compact and feather light, and yet it manages to offer an integrated CD-RW/DVD combo drive, an integrated swivel camera, and built-in wireless LAN, so you can truly travel light without sacrificing access to all the features and functions you need. It's also quite a show-off piece. The 10.6" widescreen XBRITE LCD display delivers breathtaking clarity. Go ahead - watch a few of your favorite DVDs. With its amazing battery life (up to an incredible 7.0 hours in this model), you'll still have power to get your work done while you're away from your home or office. The VAIO TR2A Notebook features advanced Intel Centrino mobile technology, designed specifically for mobility. Includes Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition.
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3 Reviews from Shopping.com
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Nice, VERY portable subnotebook
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Pros: Excellent size, weight, portability, has DVD/CD-RW and all internet connection possibilities (incl wireless)
Cons: Expensive; pain in the neck to make 9 recovery discs (not included w/computer)
The Bottom Line:
Give it a shot, especially if you can get a good deal on the price.
I love everything about this computer except all the time it took to make the 9 CD recovery discs.
I lucked out on my TR2A -- I was at Circuit City and saw one on sale as an open box item, the last in the store. It had been marked down to $1650 from the original $1950. I played around with it for quite a while and it worked fine. I decided you don't get anything in life unless you ask for it, so I asked a salesperson if he'd accept $1200 for the TR2A. After he finished laughing and I was walking away, he said he'd go talk to the manager. He came back a few minutes later with the manager, who checked out Circuit City's base price info on their store computer. Told me he'd let me buy it for $1450. I told him it was still too high and started walking. Next thing I know it was down to $1399. I decided not to push my luck past that point and pulled out the credit card (after all, that's $700 off Sony's list price, and $250 off Circuit City's already-low open box price). When I was leaving, several salespeople stopped me and told me they'd heard about the deal I made and were jealous they hadn't thought of it themselves, since they liked the TR2A so much :-))
The TR2A beats out the Fujitsu Lifebook P2120 (which I liked, but the 2120 has an awful half-size "Enter" key that's almost impossible to hit no matter how long you train yourself to use it)
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