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It is apparently due to the fact that it’s the only notebook on the market to be completely devoid of Beryllium and its compounds. It also has PVC-free internal cabling, BFR-Free main board, and a mercury-free LED backlit LCD display.
There were three main categories by which 37 notebooks from 14 companies were evaluated. The first is the absence of hazardous chemical substances, energy efficiency, and overall product lifecycle (which is basically how easy it is to upgrade and/or recycle).
The winner was Sony’s TZ11 with runs Vista, has a Centrino Duo processor from Intel running at 1.06GHz, and a bunch of other mediocre components with a battery life of about 7 hours by my math. So, apparently the key is to make a computer that, performance wise, sucks, but make the battery life really long and leave out that damned Beryllium, clearly this notebook wasn’t really graded on the that third spec as the lifecycle will get exponentially shorter the new the software you try and load on it, especially considering the 1.06GHz processor barely meets the recommended system requirements to run Windows Vista, which is a 1GHz processor. I’m not hating on Sony, I’d love to have one of these notebooks, I just don’t like GreenPeace, and it’s not for their efforts for a greener earth, it’s for their seemingly ever political agenda.
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Hmm, wonder what the price tag is on one of these. Might be worth it to buy one and then install either XP or Linux on it.
Not cheap, Orclev - range starts at $1,900 and tops out at $3,700 for preconfigured models - but they’re gorgeous machines. I’d certainly choose one over a MacBook Air.
And with XP they apparently fly, despite the relatively low-speed CPU that James criticises ;)
I was just eyeballing one of the TZ series on newegg that’s currently going for ~$2050. It’s not a TZ11, but it looks to be nearly identical with a core 2 duo, 2g of ram, and a 100g HD. Only concern I would have is getting all the drivers for XP. If I knew everything would work fine in XP (or even better Linux, but I don’t hold my breath on that one), I’d be sold on it.
Awesome update for anyone looking to do what I am. Just found this link (thanks google) that has a FTP directory Sony hosts with all the drivers you need to downgrade any of their vaio laptops to XP: ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/pub/OS/XPDOWNGRADE
Just go to the directory that corresponds to the version you have.