Sony Vaio Laptops

[BohemianGraham]

Anyone have any opinions on them? In another few months, I'm going to buy a new laptop, as my Compaq is pushing 4 years old. The Vaio I'm looking at has me interested in it due to the BD drive, more than 4gb of RAM, a larger HD, dedicated AMD Radeon graphics, and the i5 processor. Future Shop has one for the same price I paid for the Compaq 4 years ago, about 850 (seems high, but I expect paying more for a laptop). I checked Newegg Canada for other brands, and for the same features the Vaio has, Newegg wants a much higher price. In another few months, the laptop will probably be much cheap and/or replaced with something else, but I'm interested in hearing feedback on how reliable Vaios are. I've been soured on HP/Compaq, and there's been no other brand that's really caught my eye with these features.