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Sony Vaio Z Series Review
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If you are a business executive, this ought to be your laptop. The Sony Vaio Z series has its luxurious look with undeniable strength and durability wrapping all the hardware components to safety. With a chassis that is made from carbon fiber, you can be too butterfingered and stubborn to break this business laptop down.
This executive finish offered by Sony is tremendously classy with its 13-inch screen size and 1600 x 900 (upgraded) resolution. This obviously provides a wonderful viewing for users especially with multimedia graphics and detailed images. The elegant covering also houses a Core 2 Duo processor of up to 2.4 GHz and up to 4GB SDRAM. With these components alone, you can presume that Sony Vaio Z series is indeed a superb business laptop. Plus its nVidia 9300M GS and a 320 HDD, I think it is conceived by their engineering prowess with an intervention from a higher being.
The size is not only the issue here when you talk about dropped numbers. We also have the weight which is now at 1.5kg or 3.3lbs. Now, this weight might not be that light but it is indeed light enough for you to travel peacefully. Even with the occasional banging and accidental heavy fall-off, you can be worry-free with this strong laptop. So, with the safer hardware components, the safer are your data which are saved in your unit. It also has a shock protection that can protect your internal structures.
Its endurance is also recorded. As it can accommodate upgrades for battery. It can last up to 9 hours of remote usage.
If you want options, Sony Vaio has a lot to offer. With operating systems to choose from, you can customize it with Microsoft’s Vista Business or Ultimate with a copy of Windows XP Pro. Moreover, softwares are added too to give extra mile of accessibility to your business laptop. It has a built-in softwares for movies, music, and multimedia.
The only fault of this elegant notebook is its keyboard layout which is somewhat unusual to the most users who have already purchased it. It needs to be familiarized because of its uniqueness.
As this laptop is considered as a Sony counterpart for MacBook Air, its upgrades is purposely to supply the demands of corporate owners and workers. While MacBook Air maintains a standard with their own set of features that has flexibility and boldness.
When you can come across the Sony Vaio Z series, you are most probably to swipe off your credit card in exchange for these features. This will cause you a financial scratch starting from $1,789.99.
Technical Specifications:
- 2.40Ghz (P8600) – 2.66Ghz (P9600) Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor7
- Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology
- 1066Mhz Front Side Bus Speed
- 3MB – 6MB L2 Cache
- Up to 256GB (128GBx2) Solid State Drive, Ultra ATA with RAID technology
- Up to 400GB hard disk drive available8
- Up to 4GB DDR3 SDRAM
- G-Sensor™ Shock Protection on hard disk drive models only
- Estimated Battery Life: Up to 6 hours (standard capacity battery)
- Up to 9 hours (large capacity battery)
- Power Requirements: 100W + 10%
- Memory Stick Duo™ media slot with MagicGate® functionality
- ExpressCard® 3/4 slot
- SD™ memory card slot
- Fast Ethernet (RJ-45) Protocol
- 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T
- Integrated V.92/V.90 Modem (RJ-11)
- Wireless LAN: Intel® WiFi Link 5100AGN (802.11a/b/g/n)5
- Mobile Broadband Built-In
- Integrated Stereo A2DP Bluetooth® technology
- QWERTY keyboard, 82 keys with 2.5mm stroke and 19.05mm pitch
- Built-in MOTION EYE® camera and microphone
- Electro-Static touch pad
- Biometric Fingerprint Sensor, Trusted Platform Module(TPM) TCG Ver 1.2 compliant
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