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    New Sony VGN-Z37GD with 350GB how come already 70GB used?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by jlingo, Apr 19, 2009.

  1. jlingo

    jlingo Notebook Geek

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    I'm looking for a new laptop and really considering between Thinkpad T400 or Sony VGN-Z37GD series. Still highly confused which one to pick. I have always been a thinkpad user.

    I was checking the demo model and I noticed that a brand new Z series already has 70GB of storage used. Why is it so much storage being used for a brand new Z series?

    I am planning to swap the drive with my current 128GB Corsair SSD, and having 70GB already used right from the start, means 50GB left readily available for my softwares and data which IMO is very little.

    I can't go back to mechanical harddrive anymore from SSD.

    Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you in advance,
     
    jlingo, Apr 19, 2009
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  2. zendar

    zendar Notebook Consultant

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    37? where are you based? 70gb is probably the bloatware.
     
    zendar, Apr 19, 2009
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  3. chuck232

    chuck232 Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    The space could easily be used up by a restore partition in conjunction with whatever bloat Sony decided to put on the machine in the first place. 70GB is a lot on first boot, but probably not out of the realm of possibility.
     
    chuck232, Apr 19, 2009
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  4. jlingo

    jlingo Notebook Geek

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    I'm based in Southeast Asia, Singapore. Unfortunately, they don't have many selection of Sony Z series.

    http://www.sony.com.sg/productcategory/it-pc-series-z#IT+PC+Series+Z

    I always love Thinkpad but the new T400 seem to have problem with screen and flexy keyboard from my reading.

    Sony as much as I love the style, I hate having to pry open the keyboard to replace the internal harddrive. Not sure whether it's very easy to do replacing HDD in Z series.
     
    jlingo, Apr 19, 2009
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  5. Sick Nick

    Sick Nick Notebook Consultant

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    Maybe the store had a lot of demo HD movies on the machine? Cant imagine that even with all the bloatware sony would be able to use up 70GB of space.
     
    Sick Nick, Apr 19, 2009
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  6. SPEEDwithJJ

    SPEEDwithJJ NBR Super Idiot

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    First thing. Didn't the VGN-Z37GD come with 320GB HDD instead of 350GB? :confused:

    Another thing. Even though the drive is a 320GB HDD, the actual usable capacity of that drive after formatting & such is about 300GB (correct me if I'm wrong).
     
    SPEEDwithJJ, Apr 19, 2009
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    A fair amount of storage space will also be used by the operating system. Every new computer i've ever had always had some storage space taken up when it was brand new because storage space is taken up by the operating system and preinstalled utilities. Where do you think the operating system and preinstalled applications are stored? Some magical place that uses no storage space.
     
    daz7781, Apr 19, 2009
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  8. jlingo

    jlingo Notebook Geek

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    UPS! Sorry, 320GB, I mistypo. post corrected.
     
    jlingo, Apr 19, 2009
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    KiD0M4N Notebook Guru

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    I comes with a lot of preinstalled stuff... why not do a clean install of Vista and then install drivers separately. Since you already have a license to the operating system, it wont be totally illegal to obtain a nice ISO of Vista 64 bit SP1 and use the Product Key to install a clean OS onto the SSD!
     
    KiD0M4N, Apr 19, 2009
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