Is the CPU upgradable in the Z13?

If I were to buy a base model Z13, could I ipgrade the CPU to the 2.8 option later?

Thanks in advance!

 

AFAIK, Z CPU has been soldered to the motherboard.

 

Soldered, not (easily) upgradeable.

 

It seams that the operation will be very risky cpu soldered !!

 

I am having a hard time with this purchasse. I was able to get the Z13 through the Microsoft deal, but the 128GB SSD space is killing me. Also, if I were to had the option, I would have gone i7 and 1080p.

The screen upgrade concerns me because text is easy and clean to read on the standard screen. Also, I will be getting the extended battery so the i7 would have just been a speed bonus.

The SSD upgrade paths are expensive and look to be a huge hasstle on the Z. The DVD replacement bay looks to be the option I would go with. I dont know what raid is, or how it benefits me, but it seems to causse more problems than its worth.

I am switching bacck from Mac after 8 years. I thought Apple chargen a killing for their products - Sony is outreagous! 2500 + tax + warranty! Shesh!
I got this base Z13 for $1129 + tax and 3yr accidental damage out the door for $1420.

So, does sony offfer any type of promotions, student discounts or anything behing the scenes I can ask for to get the price down if I buy it directly from them?

Again, be easy on me. I have been told what and how to use my computer several years in a row now. Windows 7 is great, and I cant wait for the 8th to get my phone!

 

See this post you can change the SSD. This post also contains some benchmarks of other SSD's in the Z.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/511578-how-replace-ssd-vaio-vpcz11-vpcz12-non-sony-ssd.html

 

I have read through this thread and it looks as though I would need to remove the drives I have now, buy new ones $600+ and rig them inside of the case. Or, get a drive caddy for a 2.5.

Thinking I should just ebay the Z13 off and buy directly from Sony. Either way its $600 for more storage

I must be missing somthing here. Thanks for reaching out and if you can offer any other tips or advice, I would greatly appreciate them.

 

I don't really see what the big deal is, 128GB is plenty for all the applications I use and all the games I'm currently playing (of course not my entire game library but I don't even put all my games on my gaming desktop). If you need more than 128GB, chances are you don't need SSD speeds for that additional space, so either get a USB external HDD or replace the DVD drive with a HDD.

I did reformat with a clean install to get rid of the recovery partition so that may be why you're feeling cramped if you still have that ~10GB sitting useless.

 

I just checked my drive and it reads 108GB. How much space do thesse drives report blank? 120gb?

Again, not accustomed to PC's but glad to be here

 

119GB is what mine says
127,934,656,512 bytes

 

Do you think the max i7 is much better than the stock i5 on the Z13? I cant seem to find benchmark differences.

Many thanks!

 

My guess is a 10-15% difference, less outside of benchmark performance.

 

Intel® Core™ i5-460M processor (2.53GHz) with Turbo Boost up to 2.80GHz
Intel® Core™ i5-580M processor (2.66GHz) with Turbo Boost up to 3.33GHz
Intel® Core™ i7-640M processor (2.80GHz) with Turbo Boost up to 3.47GHz

I am completely gratefull for your insight. Looking at these numbers from my standpoint, I see a 640MHz increase in speed over the base 2.53. However, I am not sure how this all equates when it comes to gaming. That is my main concern.

 

This has been covered a few times, but typically gaming is harder on the gpu than the cpu. Unless you are doing development/compiling/etc you will not see much/any difference with the i7.

 

yep well if you take the manufacturer's definition of 128 GB you get 128,000,000,000 bytes... then divide by 1024 three times (the computer's definition of GB), you get 119.2 GB. Then you minus the ~8-10 GB recovery partition... and yeah around 108 GB.

Glad you chose to take the dive