Several new Penryn-based laptops are now available in the thin-and-light category, including top contenders from Apple, Dell, HP and Sony. Let's find out what's what.
Penryn-based configurations have now been released for some of the most popular models in the thin-and-light laptop market, including Apple's Macbook, Dell's M1330, HP's dv2700t and Sony's Vaio SZ.
We will perform extensive testing on all of these configurations in the weeks ahead, but we've put together a comparison that will give you a good idea of the differences between them all. The full comparison can be found here. Here's a short version of the comparison:
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Sony VAIO SZ |
HP dv2700t | Dell XPS M1330 | Apple MacBook |
| Price |
$2500 |
$1450 | $1650 | $1500 |
| Thinness |
1.5 inches |
1.5 inches | 1.32 inches | 1.08 inches |
| Weight |
4 pounds |
5.3 pounds | 4 pounds | 5 pounds |
| Screen |
13.3 inches |
14.1 inches | 13.3 inches | 13.3 inches |
| CPU speed |
2.5 GHz |
2.5 GHz | 2.4 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| RAM |
4GB DDR2 |
2GB DDR2 | 2GB DDR2 | 2GB DDR2 |
| OS |
Vista Business |
Vista Business | Vista Business | Mac OS X |
| Hard drive |
250GB |
160GB | 160GB | 250GB |
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