I've inherited several VAIO models over the time from my father who liked them very well. There was always something annoyingly non standard about them and it

I've inherited several VAIO models over the time from my father who liked them very well. There was always something annoyingly non standard about them and it showed on Linux. One needed a daemon to make its fans shut up, vaiofand. One had an Optimus-like setup but not really Optimus which fortunately Bumblebee handled not too badly, and a "stamina - speed" button that didn't work AFAIK. Opening one of those laptops and finding out what was where was a mess. They worked well enough though. Except for their fans, which were annoyingly loud and had a high-pitched sound, and where pretty much always spinning on Windows, which made my father's room loud. Maybe it's not a bad thing they stopped making laptops. HP, Dell and Lenovo do much better laptops I think. I have the feeling Vaios were expensive laptops with caveats. Now, I recently sold a Vaio laptop from 2004. Apparently vaiofand might not be needed anymore on it. Except for the battery it was still working very well and had a really good screen for the time. 1400x900 glossy 17 inch. It was a 4kg beast. These laptops lasted, at least.