Personally I would make a lot of sacrificies to have a super solid software/hardware solution. Where sony lost me was the abyssimal software quality of their p

Personally I would make a lot of sacrificies to have a super solid software/hardware solution. Where sony lost me was the abyssimal software quality of their products. Ignore the DRM, ignore the licensing limitations. Their music management software was clunky, limited, slow, had critical bugs and barely had enough functionnalities to be usable. I was loosing my time clicking and dragging everywhere to transfer my music, the NetMD went to a drawer and I bought an ipod. I just seems so hard for traditional big japanese companies to benefit from talented developpers. Their laptop line has/had good specs, but the windows integration is perfectible at best. I can't imagine trying to update the drivers or doing anything non sanctionned on them. One of my relatives has one, and my MBA performs better 4 years down the line while it went out roughly at the same time for the same price. I don't see wintel becoming an underdog anytime soon, but I'd love ubuntu in this role.