Re:Uhm, yes VAIOs have Winmodems! (Score 1)

So to all you out there drooling for a Vaio, just remember you may need to by a PCMIA modem anyway, and oh yeah, as far as I can see the Vaio only had one PCMIA slot (if I recall correctly). ... and also bear in mind the Vaio does not have the CDROM drive built-in -- it's external.

It actually depends on the model of the sony vaio
I have a PCG-F250 (celery 366)
it comes with a cdrom drive as far as the modem I didn't bother with it cause I was pretty sure it was winmodem but other than that
the modem and sound are only linux problems I've ever had on it.
of course I've only used SuSE but I'm going back to old slackie 4.0 this very minute to see how things are.