Thanks to one of my consulting gigs, I received a new toy on November 25, 2006 which I’ve been meaning to post about.
I did however update my computers page, so for my geek friends who look at that page on a daily basis, you had advance notice 
To sum it up, I basically received an early Christmas present thanks to being a consultant. Yay.
My Toshiba laptop is still perfectly fine but the company doesn’t want me using my “personal” machine for business, so they gave me a budget to find a desirable machine and I picked the Sony VAIO SZ330P/B.
Here are the basic specifications:
- Sony VAIO SZ330P/B
- Intel Core 2 Duo (2.0 GHz) Processor T7200
- 2048 MB PC2-4200 533MHz DDR2
- 13.3″ WXGA with XBRITE Display
- 120 GB 5400 RPM HDD
- Dual Layer DVD+RW
- 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Ethernet
- Integrated Wireless (802.11a/b/g)
- Weight: 4.1 lb
- OS: Windows XP Pro
Here is a picture of it just out of the box before the first boot up:
There was a lot of bloat ware loaded on it from all the advertisers who paid Sony but after about an hour of tweaking and removing all that junk, this machine is smoking fast!
It’s even got a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 video card with 128 MB RAM.
Another upgrade from my Toshiba laptop is the Intel Core 2 Duo, that’s right, not one Core Duo but two of them installed, this machine is the fastest that I own to date.
The only draw back is the hard drive is 5200 RPM but I plan on replacing it with a 7200 RPM hard drive like I did with my Toshiba.
I did notice that this machine doesn’t have an S-Video out port, but that’s ok because I’ve never had a need for an S-Video out port on a laptop, however the Toshiba does have one.
One last thing about this laptop, it came with a free upgrade certificate for a full version of Windows Vista when it’s released.
I’m not to sure that I’ll be doing an upgrade when it first comes out. I’ll probably wait for a while like I did with Windows XP.
