TZ210 vs SZ650

Good evening - I currently have a Sony SZ650 that I have upgraded to 4GB of RAM and a 200GB 7200rpm hard drive - I love the computer but wish it was a little bit smaller.

Incomes the TZ210 from Portable One. I was wondering if anyone out there has gone from a SZ to a TZ and what is your impression, how is the user experience different - how is the speed slow down - I orginally purchased the SZ because I thought I would do some gaming - but that never really happend - so I just do surfing, reading, banking etc.

I would really appreciate any discussion points that you all could provide. On another not I will probably sell my SZ if I make the move. OK - thanks in advance!

 

Good day to you too.

I find my T61 meeting my needs but cumbersome to carry around and am attracted to the TZ28GN/X. So, I can put myself in your position to understand your situation.

It is with such understanding that I shall not write about whether it is apt to compare an ultra-portable to one that is not. The context of our concern is about needs; for what use is it having a great machine but not carrying it because of size and weight ?

Instead, I must stress to you that you must be mentally prepared for the vast drop in speed from your 7200rpm HDD to a 4200rpm HDD of the TZ210. Its processor is also drastically slower at 1.06GHz.

People can later write that removing bloatwares will help in speed. I do not deny that helps; but still, slow is slow.

I would not recommend going for the TZ210 if it is to be your main PC. You should at least have access to a high performance desktop or another notebook when you need power.

If portability and battery-life reign higher than processor and GPU performance, then go for the TZ.


rgds.

 

Thanks for your advice Benjamin-I carry two laptops - one for work and my personal machine and I do have a high performance desktop - I just really like the portability of the TZ. What I would really like is a 12 inch screen as thin as the TZ. Well the 210 is not our yet so I have some time - and with the 7200 rpm drive in my SZ it is speedy. OK - thanks again.

 

bump? ANyone else?

 

I've got a MacBook Pro 2.6ghz with 4gb RAM and 200gb 7200rpm HDD. It's a pretty quick laptop but I also had a requirement for something more portable.

I've been pleasantly surprised by the TZ with Vista Business, 2gb RAM, 100gb HDD and 1.06ghz Core 2. I develop software and often have several of Visual Studio 2008, Office 2007, SQL 2005, Netbeans 6, MySQL, IIS 7 and Apache Tomcat running at the same time. The TZ runs several of them at once without any problem or noticeable slowdown.

I've currently got VS2008, SQL 2005, Office 2007 open without any problem.

I find the 4200 rpm HDD only really noticeably slower when copying a large number of files. I've considered buying a 64gb SSD but frankly thats still too small. Apparently there is now a Samsung 120gb 1.8" 5400 rpm available although I'm not sure it's available with a zif interface.

When I first received the TZ however it ran unbelievably slowly, well over 120 processes running. A complete format and clean install of Vista or XP makes a huge difference. If you want some extra performance SetFSB let's you mildly overclock to 1.33ghz without any problems as well.

Overall I'm delighted with the TZ.

 

Thanks very much! I have some time to decide - I appreciate your input.