Sony Vaio TZ18GN Features Solid State Drive (SSD)

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on August 9, 2007 2:32 AM | Permalink

Sony is trying to eliminate the old spinning platters of our conventional hard-disk drives. Sony, has just equipped their Sony Vaio TZ18GN with a Solid State Drive (SSD) instead of the conventional hard disk drive. The 11.1-inch ultraportable notebook is said to be more faster, lighter and much more power efficient compare to HDD-based notebooks.

The VAIO TZ18GN weighs just 1.15 kilograms and boasts a very formidable battery life of 11.5 hours on a single charge. They say that this is about a half hour more juice than the HDD notebook. The problem however, is disk space. Even though the battery life lasts a bit longer, the laptop only comes with a 32GB SSD, rather than the 100GB HDD you would normally get from other models.

Other features of the VAIO TZ18GN include an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 8x DVD-DL burner (no Blu-ray), Windows Vista, and 1GB of RAM which is heavily recommended for upgrading to 2GB. The price is a little out there at US$4,299, which works out to be a $700 premium over the model with a 100GB HDD.

via: [Mobilemag]