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Should I sell my SZ160?

Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by cosrocket, Nov 25, 2006.

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I have an SZ160 (1.83GHz Core Duo, 1GB ram, 100GB HD) which I am very happy with. A friend of mine has expressed interest in buying it and I was thinking if I should sell it and get a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo SZ premium model.
I'm not doing anything especially hard core with it, mostly surfing the internet, email, Microsoft Word, and some Photoshop.
Would I see any appreciable general increase in performance? I use Photoshop to fix photos for my personal use, it's not used for work or batch photos where time saved would really be important.
I'm not sure if the Core 2 Duo upgrade would provide a minimal increaee in performance or more than that running Vista which I will switch to as soon as ot's released.

cosrocket, Nov 25, 2006

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Personally, unless you see yourself stressing that processor to 60-100% most of the time, or complain about the Photoshop work-times, or have a space problem, I'd stick with what you have.

I would say just get a new machine when Vista SP1 (never go with a brand-new OS right away) comes out, and all your apps have been upgraded to Vista 64bit versions. You'll be happier that way.

Greg, Nov 25, 2006

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