Great package with marginal support and battery life
Written: Sep 20 '03
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Pros: small package. lots of ports, i-link, USB, PC Card, Memory Card
Cons: Loud at full power, poor sony support, poor battery life, expensive peripherals
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| freemansoft's Full Review: Sony VAIO Z505LS PC Notebook |
The Z505 series is a very nice compact package that still gets comments in meetings even though it is a couple years old. My Z505LS has been upgraded and reconfigured a couple times with the help of the yahoo Z505 mailing list and other web sources. I've swapped the hard drive, installed windows 2000 and increased the memory to 512MB. Right now I use it as a remote Java software development box. I used it for Powerpoint and other type of sales related presentations in a previous job. The unit has been very reliable. The power management software can be used to reduce fan noise.
You have to use the expensive Sony CDROM drive if you wish to boot from CD-ROM to install an operating system. I use a firewire CD/RW for backups.
The Sony drivers and OS support pages are confusing and contain only the barest amount of information. Drivers do seem to be available for Windows. Don't know about Linux
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 1500
Operating System: Windows
Processor: Intel Pentium III
Processor speed: 601-700
Screen Size: 14 inches
RAM: More than 256
Hard Drive (GB): 13-20
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