Sony Vaio TZ ...Ultra-portable laptop with 11.1-inch screen
Impeccably designed and eminently portable, the TZ is one of the finest laptops in its category.
Sony has bucked the trend of caking laptops in a glossy, piano-black coating. The TZ is mostly finished in matte black. The only trace of glossy plastic is around the keyboard section, although the 11-inch screen is far worse for collecting smears.Once you've gotten over the TZ's style, you'll be impressed by its substance. which has a native resolution of 1,366x768 pixels. It looks superb in everyday use, and provided you don't venture into direct sunlight, its gloss-coated X-Black screen is great for everything from spreadsheets to DVD playback. Don't expect it to play games though -- its graphics card is powered by the ageing Intel 945GM chipset, which is, for want of a better word.Around the left edge of the laptop there are modem and Ethernet ports (hidden behind a flap, so they don't collect dust or spoil the laptop's lines) plus two USB ports. At the front edge there's a Memory Stick reader and an SD card slot, alongside mic and headphone ports. At the right side there's a D-Sub port and, miraculously, a DVD rewriter drive. How Sony managed to fit all this in is beyond us.




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