Sony - No.....

Just spoke to a friend who's also in IT (deals with more hardware than me) - The conversation went a bit like this:

Me: I dial *** *** *** ***
Him: Hello
Me: Hi Tomy, how are you doing?
Him: Fine thanks Ed, and yourself?
Me: I'm good thanks. I was wondering your opinion, I was looking to get a new laptop, my old one died a natural death - I was thinking about a Sony S5...... [I GET INTERUPTED]
Him: Ooooowww --- no,no,no,no - I wouldn't touch a Sony!! They service is s**t, the laptops are s**t, they ain't good - They're just s**t [I'VE KNOWN THIS GUY 20 YEARS, AND HE'S NEVER SWORN SO MUCH IN HIS LIFE!!]. Don't buy one - I recomend HP - Tosh aren't too good at the mo, and Samsung, the new X50 has got terrible reviews. Get an HP, I've supplied alot of them and had no problems.
Me: Right - Thats that then - I'll look into the HP's.
.............................[AND THE CONVERSATION CONTINUED]....
So - There we go, I'm not going for the Sony, I'm looking at the HP NX8220, any comments from my good blog readers?

Ciao.