I am a not so proud owner of a vaio laptop, I have had problems with their so called customer service department!
It took me nearly a month get the rubbish Blu-Ray Drive replaced under Warranty!
Their slogan in the UK is "Be Pampered by the Best Service Around" is like sony's new motto "Make.Believe"!
I have struggled with their customer service department for nearly month to cure software problems, they have not cured my problems after more than three weeks and at one point one of their robots (member of staff) accused me of using a pirated copy of vista, which is rather strange because vaio head office in Belgium supplied it to me?
When my Warranty Period ends I will be selling it, but not to my friends because I do not want to lose them!

My Advice to anybody thinking of buying a vaio, DO NOT", I have purchased three sony items of equipment and all have proved be defective!

Yours an anti sony ex-customer...

Paul Germany

You failed to mention the External SATA interface, listed as a Feature on the left hand side panel of the Tesco site.
That sounds a handy extra