Sony's Solid State 2.4 Pound Laptop Reviewed

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!"

$4000?

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck that shit.

SSDs

[Nimsoft]

It's good we're finally starting to see SSDs starting to ship as an option in notebooks. Mechanical hard drives have served us well but I for one can't wait for the speed and reliability increases we're going to see in the future with Solid State.

How much time do you spend each day waiting for your drive to stop churning? The hard drive is certainly the weakest link in my system when it comes to performance!

Re:$4000?

[Nimsoft]

Sure, it's not exactly worth it yet unless you've got the money anyway or specifically require a small, lightweight machine with a Solid State drive, however this is still good news regardless.
This is progress and it means the cheaper SSD notebooks are just around the corner once this technology becomes mainstream.

Answer me this

[spun]

This is a tech site. Techies are interested in new technology. New technology is sold, not given away. Is Slashdot simply not supposed to mention any new technology? What is the difference between a "Slashvertisement" and an interesting story about new technology?

Swap is good

[SanityInAnarchy]

Swap means that stuff that genuinely is NEVER used can be swapped out and forgotten about. That means more space for a disk cache or a write buffer, which, in turn, means fewer writes to the disk.

Re:I'd like solid-state removable storage, please.

[Anonymous Coward]

SD Card? USB Stick?

The DVD drive is still rather necessary with this thing, as you aren't going to cram a whole lot of video onto the 32GB SSD drive (what, with Vista eating up at least 1/3 of that), and an awful lot of software is still delivered on disc.