Sony Vaio - good Uni laptop?

Question

I'm tempted by this laptop - the 3GB RAM, 1.83Ghz, 200GB HDD vaio for £569.00 inc VAT from the sonystyle shop.

It looks like you get much more for your money with other brands but I'd like something reliable for Uni work that has a good screen & decent battery life.

Is this a good choice?

Full spec below...

THANKS!

@intelCentPerf with Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T5550 (1.83 GHz and 667 MHz FSB) and Intel® PRO/Wireless 802.11a/b/g/n

Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (English version)

200 GB (Serial ATA 5400rpm) hard disk drive

3 GB DDR2-667 SDRAM (1 x 2048, 1 x 1024 MB - no free slots available), maximum 4 GB DDR2-667 SDRAM - in the case of 4GB, a portion of the system memory over 3GB might not be available to the operating system

15.4" WXGA (1280 x 800) X-black LCD

NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GT GPU with Total Available Graphics Memory of approx. 1400 MB and dedicated Video Memory of 128 MB

DVD±RW/±R DL/RAM drive

Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n

4 Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports

QWERTY keyboard

Exclusive VAIO software: VAIO Music Box, VAIO Movie Story, Click to Disc/Editor

Answer 1

great laptop, but even sony laptop do have problems, so whatever you get you take ya chances

Answer 2

Nice one, you can buy it.

Answer 3

That is an awesome laptop.  I have pretty much the same one and it works excellent!!  I have never had a problem with it.  Good choice!