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The former would be significantly faster than the latter. The U7700 is 1.33ghz vs 1.20ghz in the U7600. You would barely notice a difference between the two in fact. Besides, you could always overclock the U7600 processor to the U7700's level.
An SSD vs HDD is a completely different matter altogether, especially when you consider the TZ uses 4200rpm hard drives, quite slow in speed compared to the majority of drives out there which spin at 5400rpm and 7200rpm.
Yes, space would be an issue with that small of an SSD.
To partially rectify that, you could use a large memory stick, SD card and Expresscard storage in the notebook, all three would sit flush in the case, they wouldn't stick out like a USB flash drive would for example.
They'd be much slower than your SSD, but useful for storing data and use the SSD for storing the OS and all applications.
It may not be that bad, actually. Now that I look at it, I'm currently have 56 gb being used on my Vista partition, but 26 gb of that is music files, so only 29 gb is actually being used by the OS, programs, and other data files. And I haven't tried to optimize it at all. If I wanted, I could shrink the space used by System Restore/Shadow Copy, and shrink the recycle bin too.
So I think it would actually work o.k. Just don't plan on storing many gigabytes of music and video files on there... or get a big SD card -- er, memory stick I guess -- if you want to do that.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
