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Sony's Solid State 2.4 Pound Laptop Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the flexible-solid-state dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last week Sony finally launched its super slim, super sexy TZ series of laptops in the US. If you've been waiting to get your hands on one of these, check out this first review of the top drawer TZ12VN, complete with solid state hard disk. It's a lot of money, but it sure looks sweet!"

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  1. $4000? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Fuck that shit.

    1. Re:$4000? by Nimsoft · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Sure, it's not exactly worth it yet unless you've got the money anyway or specifically require a small, lightweight machine with a Solid State drive, however this is still good news regardless.
      This is progress and it means the cheaper SSD notebooks are just around the corner once this technology becomes mainstream.

  2. SSDs by Nimsoft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's good we're finally starting to see SSDs starting to ship as an option in notebooks. Mechanical hard drives have served us well but I for one can't wait for the speed and reliability increases we're going to see in the future with Solid State.

    How much time do you spend each day waiting for your drive to stop churning? The hard drive is certainly the weakest link in my system when it comes to performance!

  3. Answer me this by spun · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a tech site. Techies are interested in new technology. New technology is sold, not given away. Is Slashdot simply not supposed to mention any new technology? What is the difference between a "Slashvertisement" and an interesting story about new technology?

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  4. Swap is good by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Swap means that stuff that genuinely is NEVER used can be swapped out and forgotten about. That means more space for a disk cache or a write buffer, which, in turn, means fewer writes to the disk.

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  5. Re:I'd like solid-state removable storage, please. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    SD Card? USB Stick?

    The DVD drive is still rather necessary with this thing, as you aren't going to cram a whole lot of video onto the 32GB SSD drive (what, with Vista eating up at least 1/3 of that), and an awful lot of software is still delivered on disc.