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I have a Sony Vaio Z21.

So alright alright, it's not, cheap. It's not in the same ball park as the MBA on the performance side (it annihilates it)

But!

- it's slightly lighter than the MBA

- its just as thin and compact

- it has a gorgeous screen that also doesnt reflects everything instead of showing you content

- it runs linux just fine

- you can plug a lightpeak graphic card if you like

- the SSD's are extremely, extremely fast (750mbyte/s sequential writes, and over the gigbyte/s sequential reads. And no, its not mbit/s) - standard voltage i7

- bunch of options if you like that sort of stuff (fingerprint reader, 3G card, fullhd screen, etc)

- battery sheet if you like 10-12H battery life for a slightly heavier lappy (long courier flights anyone?)

-actual HDMI out, VGA out, ethernet port, no need to carry adapters.

-it still looks pretty cool



that thing is 3x the cost of a macbook air... and I thought apple products were expensive.


what kind of battery life (with the build in battery) and fan noise do you experience under normal working conditions?


BS on the SSD speeds.

6 gbps SATA with 8/10 encoding (standard SATA) means the bus is saturated at 600MB/s.


Depending on his configuration they come in 2way and 4way RAID-0, so those numbers are potentially feasible.




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