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Advantages: Light, tough and has a huge screen
Disadvantages: Small hard-drive

...-inch. It's true that you can get some very small laptops from Sony, under 4 lbs. And you can get some better-equipped ones if you pay more, but my point is that pound-for-pound the PowerBook is a competitive value. Sony's hardware designs are so radical that they wind up doing some serious acrobatics to get Windows to support them. Good luck if anything ever goes wrong. I've never liked the VAIOs myself. The Titanium costs no more than last year's Powerbooks, which featured a smaller screen, weighed over half a pound more, and used a G3 instead of aG4 processor. Apple is continuing to improve their product while keeping the price static. bundling iTunes and iMovie 2 goes a long way as well. Some Caveats: Although it's not completely clear at this point, it looks like the Titanium decodes MPEG-2 DVDs in software. Argh. Why... Read review

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Advantages: design construction ease of use
Disadvantages: lack of velocity engine software, slow surfing

...of the PC industry copy), a more intuitive operating system, hardware reliability, ease of use, and simple to upgrade. Styling of the G4 is 'organic' with sweeping curves, but with a strangely flat front panel. The design always taking your visual and tactile senses for a ride. The play of translucents, semi transparents, plastics and metals, hard and soft, this is not 'just' a computer it has soul. Apple even use holographic stickers for product identification and as warning stickers inside the chassis! Even the power cable is candy coloured and stripped like a rock...and the mouse cables...hmmm tasty. No design aspect has been left, even the back of the machine looks 'handsome' The G4 clearly is a 'designer' machine and has always been, - the main market which Macs are used in. In everyday use the compact keyboard is a joy to use, the keys... Read review

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Advantages: build quality, lightweight, stylish, fast
Disadvantages: only has memory stick card reader

...includes XP pro which has some significant security advantages when networking compared to the home edition. Norton Internet Security is included with a 3 month subscription. Photo editing is catered for with the inclusion of the excellent Photoshop Elements. Even the lite version of Adobe Premiere is a powerful video editing tool. Microsoft Works is there. Some may be disappointed that Office isn't included in a product targetted at business and professional users, personally I have found I prefer this stripped down application. There is a bundle of other multimedia software which I have found little use for. The Vaio delivers the performance promised by the spec. It steams through heavy duty videoing and photo editing significantly faster than my Athlon xp2000+ desktop. My only gaming is a yacht racing sim called Virtual Skipper... Read review

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