Today as I was lifting my Sony Vaio laptop to keep it on a table, it's power button on the side suddenly seemed to snap - this gave me a fright and when I checked it, it had gotten loose. It still seemed to be working properly but it was moving loosely in it's slot all the time. This laptop is the FW series and is only 4 months old, and yet this problem. I never expected a brand like Sony to have made a product that seems to contain such obviously weaker quality component - that too the power button. Is there anyone else who faced a similar problem and if so, does it need professional fixing or is it something that can be done at home? Any valuable suggestion is greatly appreciated.

I'm wondering if you ever contacted Sony about this. The same thing happened to me. I purchased it in Dec. and the power button snapped in June. I think it's ridiculous that Sony charges approx. $1200.00 for the computer and then expects me to pay $170.00 to have it fixed (they offered to pay for shipping. From no fault of my own did this happen and obviously you didn't cause it either. This is a manufacture defect. Sony needs to fix this problem when they make this product or not charge for the repair. If I did cause it myself I'd be happy to foot the bill but as I said before they need to fix the issue and fix the computers out there that this is happening to at no charge. If you did contact Sony what were your results? I would love to find out. I just contacted them today. Their repair dept. will contact me once they have my computer so I will let everyone know what happens.