Intel Core 2 Quad i7-720QM 1.60GHz (Turbo Boost up to 2.80GHz) 4096MB RAM (8192MB max) 16.4 LCD (1600x900) 500GB HDD (7200rpm) DL DVD+R/W Drive WiFi (802.11b/g/n) Gigabit Ethernet A2DP Bluetooth Built-In Webcam & Microphone NVIDIA GeForce 310M (512MB Dedicated) HDMI Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Gray)
Features: This Sony VAIO VPCF11PFX/H Notebook PC offers superior performance and amazing HD entertainment on a top-notch 16.4" widescreen notebook | With a quad core Intel Core i7 - 720QM processor with Intel Turbo Boost Technology up to and 4GB of pre-installed system memory processor | You will experience the ultimate in smart performance and a razor-sharp picture with amazing depth and clarity.
Sony VAIO VPC-F11PFX/H 16.4" Notebook (1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Quad i7-720QM 4GB RAM 500GB HDD DL DVD-RW Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit) (Personal Computers)
By Sony
VPCF1-problems
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I have been using only Sony Vaio laptop computers since 1998. Until lately, I have found them exceptional computers. Lately; however; quality has suffered. My latest version, a VPCF1 has a lot of problems. Within days after purchase, the machine locks up...freezes...not a blue screen of death, just frozen screen. Sometimes rebooting the machine will fix the problem, sometimes it takes multiple boots to get the machine back to the window's prompt. Once it reboots, many times it hangs during boot, sometimes before the "boot in safe mode" window and sometimes while booting in safe mode. It has locked with no software running and with MS Office software running. The event log has hundreds of errors, but no history of what is causing the problem. I have spent 20 or so hours on the phone with SONY trying to trouble shoot the problem. They are finally going to send someone out to troubleshoot the problem on site, but they are not allowing them to bring any spare parts. (The problem is likely a motherboard issue, or ram issue.) At one time they thought is was the disk drive, because it kept failing the check disk command (the dive is an SSD). Although the realibility issue is my biggest problem, the machine also has a high pitch whine coming from near the keypad and probably my biggest irritant is that the Keys squeak. They are going to send other techs out to look at these issues. No tech has shown up yet, or set up an appointment, but Sony won't combine the issues for a single visit. This means additional time off from work for me. I used to like SONY. I thought my last SONY computer problem was a fluke (NVIDIA chip overheating) which resulted in early death of the laptop, but now I think the VAIO line has quality issues. By the way, there is now a recall out on the VPCF1 computers for an overheating issue as well. The last time there was an overheating issue, Sony's fix was a software mod to change the fan to run at max speed all the time thus shortening the battery life. This fix for the VPCF1 series is also a software fix. My guess is that there is a "hot" chip in the machine (again!) which is causing the overheating (melted cases) problem. I would stay away from the VPCF1 series.