RE: My UN-automated Home :-(

["Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

> > However, I also have a friend who supplies my employer with
computer
> > equipment and he has a few contacts within Sony and he has found
out the
> > following:
> >
> > 1) Sony UK have no more stocks of the standard life batteries at
all -
no
> > further batches are being made either.
>
> Oh dear...

Yup ... pretty dissapointing from a company like Sony ... of course given
that the current incarnations of the PCG series all share the same case
then
I'd expect this not to be the case with the current models but as the
original PCG series (which is what I have) was a case design that wasn't
used again then I can kinda see why this is.

> > 2) They really do state in the small print that the batteries are
only
> > covered for three months - I'm going to see if I can contact
Citizen
Advice
> > on this one.
>
> Always a dodgy one, is there a statement at the end to the general
lines
of
> 'this warranty does not affect your statutory rights'?

Still trying to find the box for the VAIO in the loft to see...

...of course, if it does have that statement then I should be laughing.

> > 3) As it is obviously an annoyance for me (!?!?) then my friend
has been
> > given a memory expansion for my VAIO whether or not I decide to
buy
another
> > battery!
>
> You sound very calm, well the memory expansion is a nice touch, but if
you
> wanted a desktop machine the mem would have been dirt cheap anyway.

I don't see any reason to get wound up ... it's frustrating that a
perfectly
good laptop is rendered tethered by lack of spares but I don't use it that
much as a laptop - mostly as a transportable. The mem expansion for this
unit is horrifically expensive too so it is a nice touch but has only
materialised because of my friend. Sony certainly didn't offer anything
like
that to me when I was on their service lines! The only impact for me
(effectively) is that I won't be able to use the laptop for downloading
pics
from my digital camera when I'm out and that's probably about it.

Obviously I have asked my friend to order me a higher capacity battery
anyway but I'm still determined to get to the bottom of this three month
limitation of warranty.

Phil