| Sony VAIO VGC-RA830G Desktop PC (Intel Pentium 4 Processor 550 (H-T), 1 GB RAM, 2x160 GB Hard Drives, Dual Layer DVD+/-RW, DVD-ROM Drives) | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2564
Category: Personal Computer
Publisher: Sony
Studio: Sony
Brand: Sony
Label: Sony
Hardware Type: Desktop Computer
Platform: Microsoft Xp Media Center Edition
Media: Personal Computers
CPU Manufacturer: Intel
CPU Speed: 3.4
CPU Type: Intel Pentium 4
Processors: 1
System Bus Speed: 800
System Memory: 1
Memory Type: DDR SDRAM
Secondary Cache Size: 1
Keyboard: Wireless keyboard
Hard Drive Size: 320
Floppy Disk Drive: 1.44 MB, 3.5-inch floppy disk drive
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6600
Graphics RAM: 256
Graphics Card Interface: Integrated
Case Type: Tower
Modem: 56 Kbps
Network Interface: 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T Fast Ethernet (RJ-45)
Free Memory Slots: 1
Included Software: Adobe Acrobat Reader, Intuit Quicken 2005 New User Edition, InterVideo WinDVD, Microsoft Works 8.0, Microsoft Office 2003 60-Day Trial (Student/Teacher Edition), Click to DVD
Special Features: Giga Pocket MPEG2 Realtime Encoder/Decoder board with TV Tuner
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Shipping Weight (lbs): 26.5
Dimensions (in): 15.6 x 15.3 x 7.4
MPN: VGC-RA830G
Model: VGC-RA830G
UPC: 027242667815
EAN: 0027242667815
ASIN: B00079F7P2
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| Features:
| • | Monitor Not Included! | | • | Intel Pentium 4 Processor 550 (3.4 GHz) | | • | 1MB L2 Cache | | • | 800MHz FSB | | • | 1GB PC3200 400MHz DDR SDRAM |
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Product Description
Includes: wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, Logitech X530 5.1 channel speakers, & Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Sony VAIO(R) VGC-RA830G Desktop PC - This desktop computer features Sony's Giga Pocket. The Giga Pocket let's you watch and record TV on your computer, as well as capture video. Coupled with the included DVD writer, you can capture old VHS tapes to make your own DVD movie! And with the 3.4GHz Intel processor, 1GB of PC3200 DDR SDRAM, and two 160GB hard drives, you have plenty of power and room for capturing video and much more! 2 RAM Slots (occupied) 320GB (2 x 160GB) 7200RPM SATA HDD in a RAID 0 configuration Double Layer DVD Writer - supports Double Layer DVD+R, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, & CD-R/RW media DVD-ROM Drive NVIDIA GeForce 6600 256MB Video Memory Giga Pocket MPEG2 Encoder/Decoder board with TV Tuner and Motion Reality Technology Multimedia Card Reader Unit Weight - 34.172 lbs.
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 4 years and still going January 18, 2008
Nice to see reviews where someone keeps it for a day. This thing is great. Quiet, dependable. Easy to upgrade. It has new Ram and I upped the HD after 3 years to a new larger one. I finally upped the Video card as well. The main thing is it still works beautifully. 5 stars for a quiet long lasting and dependable machine.
 worst comuter i have ever seen February 2, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
bought it at CompUSA today, try to recover the system, having the same problem as above (took me 2 hours to make the recovery disc too). got to return it. never buy a SONY computer agaian.
 Nice package May 25, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The RA8xxx Series from Sony is very nice. Big plus is the cooling system. The machine is super quiet. The integrated Home Media support is a nice bonus. I don't think I'd want to use one of these as a TiVo replacement but for a home machine it's tough to beat from a combination of style, power, features and performance.
Negatives are the crappy mouse and keyboard and having to burn your own Recovery software.
buyer beware!! May 17, 2005
15 out of 25 found this review helpful
Just bought this yesterday at compusa. Will be taking it back tomorrow morning. This is the 5th computer I have owned and the worse I have ever seen. Sony has allot of wonderful software on this system and impressive 5.1 speakers that come with it. But you are screwed if you have to do a system recovery. Followed the directions and spent 2 hours making recovery disks before putting any of my software on it, only to find out that when it tries to recover your system it prompts you to insert disk #1 and press ok. Guess what? You can't press ok because your wireless mouse and keyboard are no longer functional. And turning off the computer wiped out ALL my system restore checkpoints. So I couldn't even restore to a earlier time. When I tried it again I then got a message that it couldn't locate the recovery partion. And forget about any type of help from the website or the non-existant user manual. The only help they had was to change the batteries in the mouse and keyboard (they already had brand new batteries).
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