Sony is well-known for its premium good-looking hi performance laptop computers. “Sony” and “Budget” are very unlikely to be put on the same sentence. Is the line “cheap Sony laptop” rings a bell in your brain? Mine is not. Even I don’t dare to put the title of this post as “Cheap Sony VAIO under $900″. Instead I picked the word “inexpensive”, because “cheap” is so not Sony 
That’s why finding a new Sony VAIO laptop under $900 is worth a posting in a blog 
Laptop Mag has reviewed this laptop computer, so it’s best to put their review here for you to judge:
Inside, the components are more impressive for the price. You get a 1.5-GHz Core 2 Duo processor with 667-MHz FSB and 2MB cache, as well as 1GB of DDR2 RAM, which provides plenty of processing muscle for everyday use. We had zero problems multitasking when we were watching a DVD, booting up Paint Shop Pro, browsing the Internet, and doing some light word processing. We were also pleased with the 160GB, 5,400-rpm SATA drive, which should have plenty of space for all your documents and multimedia.
PCMark05 and 3DMark03 scores were well below average for a mainstream machine at 3,080 and 1,459 respectively, but when compared with our recent roundup of sub-$800 mainstream notebooks, it had the fastest times for both tests, as well as the longest battery life at 2 hours and 19 minutes on a DVD rundown test and 3:41 during a productivity test.
So it’s definitely worth it. Something else you need to know, this laptop is not so portable, the screen is 15.4-inch and weigh 6.2-pound, but the design is so classy. Not a thing to be ashamed of. Sony laptop again is a good choice for design-conscious consumers.