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Sony's second key laptop introduction of the week is its 13in Vaio Z - not only a low-weight boy for business but also one of the first notebooks with seen with hot-switch graphics chips. Like the Vaio FW, which was also launched this week, the Z series is based on Intel's Centrino 2 - the foundation for a raft of new …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    And...

    It could be all yours for only £37,000!

    Spanky McG

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  2. b
    Thumb Up

    good idea :)

    better than the external box thingy that amd came up with?!

    http://www.eupeople.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=658

    but not better then a DUAL 8800M GTX based lappy!!! (for pure grunt)

    http://www.eupeople.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=680

    cheers,

    bill ;)

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  3. Dan Bowden
    Gates Horns

    SInce 2 years ago!

    Seriously guys the graphics card switch has been on Sony SZ laptops for years

    http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/2006/12/20/Sony-Vaio-VGN-SZ3XP/p2

    There's a link for a sony laptop review from 2006!

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Boffin

    Wow!

    What a magnificent breakthrough! A switch that toggles between high performance and low performance modes!

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Price ?

    OK, looks reasonable - but what's the price.

    Nice screen but no Blu- Ray drive ?

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  7. Graham Lockley

    What to call it ?

    >What a magnificent breakthrough! A switch that toggles between high performance and low performance modes!

    I agree, superb idea. Now lets think what we could label the button. Ive got it..... TURBO !!

    Errr, wait a minute, that sounds eerily familiar....

    :)

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  8. Steven Raith
    Stop

    Dan Bowden

    You might want to actually *read* the article first:

    "Sony's done this kind of thing before, but here it works on the fly with no need for a re-boot."

    eight out of ten for effort, zero out of ten for observation, and minus eleventy out of ten for attempted-journo-pwnage.

    Anyway, if it's anything like the Sonys I have used/supported over the years, the switches will fall off within twelve months!

    Steven R.

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  9. Monkey

    Steve

    and the battery life itself will be shite as standard, and not last longer than 18 months if the machine is used everyday.

    Woohoo, this might make it last 19 months instead!

    Christ we're a cynical lot.

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  10. storng.bare.durid
    Paris Hilton

    hmm... how good does the os actually cope with this.

    Great idea

    But how good does windoze do this?

    Can linux cope with something like this as well?

    Anyone know?

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  11. TimM

    Hot Swap

    Reading the headline I thought this meant you could actually pull the GPU out of the machine and swap in another. Now *that* would be really useful. Upgradable GPU in a laptop... ;-)

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