My experience with the Vaio brand is pretty much the polar opposite from yours. I bought a high end 1.5 kEUR Vaio laptop a few years ago and it's still with me.

My experience with the Vaio brand is pretty much the polar opposite from yours. I bought a high end 1.5 kEUR Vaio laptop a few years ago and it's still with me. It had the best perf/EUR when it comes to CPU, GPU and memory out of the options I had back then and the monitor resolution was good. But the build quality is just crap. The case is cracked, the touchpad is just awful, the connectors are in silly places. Now the battery has died so if you unplug it, the machine powers down immediately. And the cooling is just inadequate for the CPU + GPU, albeit it has a Sandy Bridge and a Fermi and neither of those are known for their power efficiency. The fan is yelling like hell all the time, despite the fact that the interior of the machine is just a huge copper heat sink that weighs a ton. I wouldn't buy another Vaio. But all our experiences can really be taken as evidence of is that they had a huge lineup of different models.