Recently I purchased myself a shiny new Sony Vaio Z series notebook. My main reason for choosing the Vaio Z was the size weight: it’s a reasonably powerful 13.1″ laptop at 1.5kg including the battery, a weight which rivals a lot of the 10″ netbooks out there. The model I purchased, the Z16 (Australia has different model numbers to the USA) was one of the lower specced models, however it still features a respectable Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 processor (2.4GHz) and 2 gigabytes of DDR3 RAM (I added a second 2GB module a few weeks after purchasing the laptop).
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