This laptop is very good, well built, very light AND very expensive. For the price I paid, I would have liked a 1gb RAM or atleast a built-in DVD writer with it. And Sony not shipping XP cd with it (as with all SONY laptops) is really annoying. Why should I have to manually create 7 restore cd, after paying $1700 !If you ignore these, the laptop is great! The screen is supercool,really sharp! The fan makes a little noise, which should not be for such a small laptop. Also the battery life is 3hr instead of 4hr, which I expect from a laptop of this size. The sound is also good.