Replacing Lenovo Z570 with Sony or Toshiba?

cotswol

I spent ages researching laptops about 18 mths ago and finally plumped for a Lenovo Z570. I've been very happy with it until yesterday when it cut out - I plugged the charger in and the light on the adaptor started flashing and the laptop behaved as if no charger was connected. I took the battery out and again, the adaptor flashed and no power was available from the laptop.

I've looked at Lenovo's forums and it seems its a relatively common fault which means a new motherboard.

I work from home so need to get back online ASAP so I'm thinking should I get a new Lenovo Z580 (which appears pretty much the same as my Z570) or should I go for something different? I don't really wish to spend more than £500 as any laptop costing more than that will have features I'll never need to use. The laptop magazines rate the Sony Vaio Fit 14E SVF1421S1E and the Toshiba Satellite C50-A-156 very highly.

I quite fancy going for the Sony Vaio as friends and relatives love them but when I was researching laptops 18 mths ago, a lot of people online put me off the Sony saying it has a lot of reliability issues.

I don't really fancy paying nearly £500 to get an identical laptop to the one I had before and fancy a change but what does everyone think is the best one to go for? Reliability and a keyboard that's good to type on are my main concerns.

I liked the recovery button on Lenovo which was great to wipe the laptop clean every few months - does the Sony have a similar feature?

Thanks in advance

A._Badger

If you're particular about keyboard quality try before you buy. A lot of new laptops seem to have very poor quality keyboards these days and Lenovo (whatever other faults they may have) tend to have the best keyboards. Buying without trying beforehand could be a frustrating mistake.

closed

Why not fix it, or use the sale of goods act.

any machine can be factory restored with a disk image backup, macrium reflect free

buglawton

I could never live with a glossy reflective screen on a laptop, which is why I've been on generations of used Lenovos at home.

Don't assume it's the motherboard without more investigation!
A friend's daughter turned up with a dead Lenovo once and the fault turned out to be a bent pin in one USB socket, where someone had tried to ram in the wrong plug when setting up an AV presentation. Soon as I had pulled the pin straighter with fine tweezers the fault cleared. USB socket was a gonner though.

Messa

Also have you tried another charger ?
I also have a 570 and would hate to swap it, the keyboard, screen, battery life and especially the speaker quality are hard to beat !