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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. design . . . by ElephanTS · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not an Apple fanboi (honest!) but this new Sony looks very similar to the black MacBook - the keyboard etc - but slightly less elegant and less tidy looking. I think it shows how good the Apple industrial design is now when companies like Sony really can't come close on the aesthetic factor. I'm sure it's a really good machine but dropping that kind of money on a portable has got to be foolish in my experience.

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  2. Will it run GNU/Linux? Yes. by twitter · · Score: 0, Troll

    One day, it will. You might wonder if it will ever run Vista well. My bet is on GNU/Linux.

    In the mean time, you can keep the $3,800 price difference and get something like this, that weighs 2lbs and comes with gnu/linux installed.

    What was that prediction about a $200 price point for PCs? Oh yeah, that's right - non free software won't be able to compete when the price point drops to $200. The world is looking better every day.

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  3. Re:Windows is not compatible with CF hard drives by MoxFulder · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is an issue I have recent and intimate knowledge of.
    XP will *NOT* install on a standard CF card. Even with a CF/IDE converter, Windows sees the CF card as a "Removable Device" and will not install to it. Windows also will only ever see one partition on a removable device. It's also broken when trying to format an existing partition during install, and it corrupts itself when trying to expand it's C: partition when installing from a sysprep'ed disk image. The only way I was able to get it installed was to create a sysprep image the exact size that the finished install will be and write it directly to the flash drive. It's kind of funny to double click on "My Computer" and see the C: drive show up as a removable device with a little removable type icon. This guys blog details the issues a bit more:

    http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/12/windows-xp-em bedded-gotchas.html Good to know. Wow, Windows is even stupider than I remember it was...
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