Sony Vaio VGN-SZ2XP/C pros and cons

By glazou on Thursday 6 July 2006, 19:29 - General - Permalink

pros

weight !!!
speed, power
superb 13"3 screen
silent and amazingly fast and big disk ; suspend to disk my 1Gig of ram is incredibly fast, I love it
keyboard is excellent, as always with Sony laptops
incredible quality of the builtin video camera ; Wengo people could not believe their eyes when they saw an unoptimized still image or video stream coming from that microcam...
as always with Sony, a real hardware switch to turn wifi on/off
for the 1st time in my life, a fingerprint reader that REALLY works and always recognizes me... To be compare with HP and IBM fingerprint readers...
of course, can boot from an external USB disk

cons

price...
complexity of the power management, despite of its power
power adapter using a quite uncommon socket on laptop side
crazy price of the 7hrs battery
WinXP not on a CD but on a partition you can save on 2 single-layer DVDs or one dual-layer DVD
Phenix BIOS far too simple

Overall, it's an excellent choice. I am very happy with this laptop, and I think Dell lost me as a customer.

1. On Thursday 6 July 2006, 12:32 by glandium: Je sais pas pour ce modèle, mais j'en ai un de la série S d'il y a 2 ans, et il faut dire ce qui est, ça a beau être silencieux au début, ça devient assez bruyant avec le temps et la poussière...

À propos du cordon d'alim, il est comment ? Parce que pour les 2 vaios que j'ai achetés avec 2 ou 3 ans d'écart, le truc d'alim est exactement le même. Si bien que je peux utiliser ma vieille alim sur le nouveau et vice versa.
2. On Thursday 6 July 2006, 12:36 by David Tenser: If you could afford such a beauty/beast, you really shouldn't complain about anything! I envy you!! Congrats, I wish I could afford a computer like that.
3. On Thursday 6 July 2006, 14:27 by moi: Sony VAIO Z1 RMP de décembre 2003. Toujours aussi silencieux & nickel. N'a pas pris une seule ride depuis son achat et son centrino 1,5Ghz suffit encore amplement. Je regrette tout de même la coque en plastique dur (ça ne vaut pas celle des thinkpad). Je viens de changer l'alim qui est morte le mois dernier.. quant à la batterie elle est tjrs aussi véloce ! 3h30~4h00 d'autonomie maxi. Bon achat Daniel !!.. mon futur miens sera surement un Apple.
4. On Tuesday 11 July 2006, 09:23 by joce: Anyone installed Linux on that (small) beast? I'm especially interested in video export to a beamer.

Cheers
Joce

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