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Strengths: Ultra portable, great battery life.
Weaknesses: Not for multitasking.
Summary: I have the vaio TX-850p which has very similar specs for around 4-5 months now. I paid $1600 for it. Its a great little notebook with a carbon fibre lid. I have always been partial to thinkpads but there is no other notebook under 3 lbs with a built in optical drive and 7 hr battery life. Dunno why ppl keep harping on the core solo.Its plenty fast for normal everyday stuff. I triple boot, mandriva, winxp and vista and even vista seems to run fine on it (ok a little sluggish with the speed step and power saving mode )
This is an ultra-portable and not supposed to be running quake 4 or maya 3d. BTW the core solo is the ULV version which is great for battery life. I normally get between 6-7 hrs on a single charge with wireless and without any power savings mode. If you are a mobile professional this is the perfect laptop. THe screen is amazing (one of the best I have seen.
However, IMO the resolution (1366x768) is too high for the small screen and requires using higer dpi for normal reading.
One of the drawbacks of the X series is lack of optical drive and also low resolution (only 1024x768) on a 12" screen at least when I got it. I believe they have a 1440x1050 version now. You need an extra long life battery which sticks out and increases the travel weight to get anywhere close to 7 hrs of battery life.
This laptop is obviously not for everyone. In my case, I am coming from a T-23 and a Z-60t and I rarely use the other laptops anymore.
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