Ouch - I thought I saw the SZ series at a local Costco for around $1300 (perhaps I was mistaken though) - if you're near a Costco, that might be worth checking out.
cheers, steve max at bruningsystems.com wrote: > Hi Steve, > I have looked quite a bit at Sony, but the SZ series are around > $2000US. Are they really twice > as nice as the HP? thanks, > max > > Stephen Lau wrote: >> max at bruningsystems.com wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I am looking into buying a new laptop, and of course I want it to be >>> able to run opensolaris. >>> >>> I want something that is fairly light weight, dual core amd or intel, >>> dvd writer, 1GB memory >>> and as much disk as I can afford. I have been looking at the HP >>> Pavilion DV2310 which >>> seems to have it all. But I can only look on-line, so I haven't been >>> able to go to a store that has >>> this and try inserting Belinix to see if it works. Anyone with >>> experience with Solaris on >>> this machine? The machine seems too cheap to be true (under >>> $1000US). Does anyone have >>> a suggestion for another machine to look at? >>> >>> thanks, >>> max >> >> I would check out the Sony Vaio SZ series... it's a Core 2 Duo (dual >> core Intel), has a DVD writer, can go up to 2GB of memory and has a >> 100GB disk option and isn't too bad at around 4 pounds. >> >> It's not cheap though. :) >> >> The guys at the Sony Style store were fine with me booting up a >> Belenix LiveCD on it. >> >> cheers, >> steve >> -- stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development
