The Sony Vaios have gotten great reviews. I know people that own them and they really like them. I think your CD problem is isolated.

>I have at work a SONY VAIO GRV550 laptop, which I like, but it is the business'. I am thinking about buying my own personal laptop and am wondering what the best one would be? The Sony laptop doesn't seem to read some CD's. We took it to a client and it could see nothing. We put the CD on another machine and it saw everything. I can't have a Notebook that is unreliable like the SONY was. Anyone got any ideas. How about the DELL Inspiron? Is that the best as far as reliability?