I agree sony is one of best companies we have for electronics, but sony vaio would be one that I consider a fail. I bought this laptop 5 years before , it had a good quality of sound and everything was smooth for first few months but unfortunatly it started out with keyboard problems and later when I updated it lost the sound quality which didnt even fix when I re-installed drivers and everything. 2 years before I got a crack on screen and when I went to repair it , they informed me I cant get any parts of that laptop anymore and sony have moved to thier ultrabooks and notebook. it had cost me about 56, 000 to buy my laptop during that time and it didnt worth at all . Al my friends who had sony vaio had same problem like me for keyboard and mouse touchpad , so my laptop wasnt odd one to face this problems.