Gotta love the SZ extended battery

I received the SZ extended battery and used it for the first time yesterday. I charged it up and I was able to use the SZ160 on and off all day long and at night there was still about 3 hours left on the battery meter! It barely makes the SZ any heavier and it only sticks out a little from the back. Now if only I could put a secondary battery in the drive bay, that would be amazing!
I'm enjoying the SZ160 more every day, if I could put OS X on it it would be the ultimate lappy!

 

"on and off all day long" is a bit vague. Do you feel that the battery life makes up for the pathetically cheap look/ feel/ touch of the keyboard?

edit: not trying to start a flame war or anything, sz is still a laptop i'm considering

 

a couple of things. first i was considering the longer battery but i am find more and more places have ac power. i even found a power plug on the long island railroad. biz class and even some economy seats have power now also. i'm a weight freak, (old jew with bad back)so i want to keep it down to ounces. i even ordered a lighter laptop bag (booq powersleeve l90). as soon as the x86 project figures out how to boot osx i'm in.

also the keyboard is not bad at all. and sony fixed my spacebar without having to resort to stickynotes

 

really, in my opinion the keyboard is great

I started off thinking it was 'cheap' and 'weird feeling'

but the more I used it, the more i like it but that's just my opinion

 

Yeah I guess that is a little vague. I use the SZ on and off, meaning I'll use it for half and hour to a hour and then leave it in standby and come back to it later. I did this several times yesterday and was on it for about 90 minutes straight late last night and it still showed over 3 hours left on the meter. The longest reading the meter showed yesterday was a little over 7 hours, this was in stamina mode with bluetooth off and the display at half brightness. When I was using the standard battery the longest reading was about 4 hours and I had to recharge early evening.
As far as the keyboard, true it's certainly not the best out there but I've gotten used to it and the keys are full size so I'm comfortable typing on it.

 

you would like to OS X on it??? last time i hear of a mac putting windows on it and it didn't work that well at all. so if you want a mac you should really get an Apple, sony is windows, not ment for OS X

 

You know why the keyboard feels weird? The keys are too big. No, seriously. Compaired to my MS keyboard on my home system, the sony keys are larger. Which probably explains why I sometimes hit the wrong keys. This is one time I wish the keys were a bit smaller.

 

The shape of the extended battery doesn't fit very well in the Sony cases designed for the laptop. You have to uninstall the extended battery and reinstall the standard battery before you put it in the VGP-CKSZ1 or the PCGA-CCV. They should reshape the battery so it is in-line with the laptops form factor instead of making it stick out and not fit the cases.

 

It is actually really easy to put it on though...I have OS X on my SZ and love it

 

ok can you post the link on how to install osx?