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SONY VAIO VGN-TZ150N

Laptop’s Beauty Is Only Skin-Deep

Laptop manufacturers are putting their focus on

design these days, and they’ve come out with some

amazingly sleek and sexy creations. This is ﬁ ne—as

long as they don’t forget that performance and fea-

tures are an important part of the mix. The Sony

VAIO VGN-TZ150N epitomizes elegance. It’s a feath-

erweight (2.7-pound) ultraportable with a gorgeous,

LED-enhanced screen, a raised keyboard, and a

durable carbon-ﬁ ber frame. Too bad that Sony hasn’t

paid equal attention to what’s beneath the snazzy

exterior. If you need a system to keep you produc-

tive, you’ll run into a few snags with this one.

The TZ150N has some top-notch features: LED

backlighting that makes viewing the 11.1-inch screen

a joy, a dual-layer DVD burner, a Sprint EV-DO Rev

A modem—and a webcam, which, as far as I know, is

unique in a system weighing less than 3 pounds.

Not so hot is the 1.06-GHz ultra-low-voltage

(ULV) Intel Core 2 Duo U7500 processor; nor does

it help that the system comes with only 1GB of RAM.

(You’ll want to double that to do justice to Win-

dows Vista Business.) Then there’s the hard drive.

Although its capacity (100GB) is adequate, it spins

at only 4,200 rpm. Worse, the system is loaded with

bloatware: no less than 30 VAIO apps, plus lots of

trial ware such as Corel Snapfire, Microsoft Office

2007, and Norton Internet Security.

One advantage to the TZ150N’s low power is

that it extends battery life. The unit lasted almost 4

hours (3:47) playing back a DVD, which translates

into roughly 6 or 7 hours’ worth of more routine

tasks. But long battery life doesn’t make up for feeble

components, especially considering that the TZ150N

carries the price tag of a luxury item.—Cisco Cheng

Specs: 1.06-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo U7500; 1GB DDR2

SDRAM; 100GB, 4,200-rpm hard drive; Intel Graphics

Media Accelerator 950; 11.1-inch, 1,366-by-768 screen; 2.7-

pound system weight (3.3-pound travel weight); 63-Wh,

5.8-Ah lithium ion battery; Windows Vista Business.

Sony VAIO

VGN-TZ150N

$2,299 direct

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PROS Carbon ﬁ ber case.

Improved, raised key-

board. LED-backlit screen.

Inte grated optical drive.

2.7-pound featherweight.

Excellent battery life.

CONS Too much bloatware.

Slow ULV processor. 1GB of

RAM is not enough for Vista.

Slow-spinning hard drive.

For more:

go.pcmag.com/sonytz150n

Carbon-ﬁ ber

frame

Raised

keyboard

PERFORMANCE TESTS

L High scores are best.

M Low scores are best.

Bold type denotes ﬁ rst place.

BATTERY

RUNDOWN

SCORE L

hr:min

SYSMARK

2007

PREVIEW:

OVERALL L

MULTIMEDIA TESTS M

WINDOWS

MEDIA ENCODER

min:sec

PHOTOSHOP CS2

ACTION SET

min:sec

Sony VAIO VGN-TZ150N 3:49

47 2:32 2:58

Dell XPS M1330*

3:23

1:32 1:07

* Editors' Choice, reported for comparison.

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