[csmithuk]

That really doesn't surprise me. I was given a brand new Sony Vaio VPC-J1 all in one. Had a niceish 20" 1920x1080 screen and an i5 so decided to try and use it for dev work.

Came stuffed with crapware and Sony-isms from the start. Did a rebuild with clean windows. Couldn't find any drivers for any of the Sony proprietary crap (Sony firmware extension parser, Magic Gate, WTF etc) so left them off as it worked fine.

After about 2 months the external PSU blew up. Sony couldn't provide a replacement under warranty for over 6 weeks so I got a dodgy Chinese PSU from Ali Express (took 2 days to arrive!). About 2 months later it started overheating and turning off randomly. Took it to bits to try and clean it and noticed that half the screws on the stand were no longer screwed in - all the threads were stripped. The stand collapsed shortly after resulting it being crudely propped on a pile of books. Turns out there was no dirt in the cooling ducts at all. Took the HSF off the CPU and there was only thermal paste on half of it. Sorted it with some arctic silver. About a month later the disk blew up. Turns out it was from a known bad batch of WD disks. Stuck a new disk in it. A month later it completely failed.

Total piece of junk. It lives in my cupboard as a reminder never to buy anything Sony and as a source of a mouse and keyboard for my daughter's Raspberry Pi. Even the keyboard and mouse suck.

ThinkPad user before and afterwards. ZERO problems ever.