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Who will win? MacBook Air vs. Sony VAIO VGN-TZ150N/B, Macbook Pro vs. Sony VAIO VGN-AR790U/B, Macbook vs. Sony VAIO SZ280.

In today’s review we will try to compare almost identical in terms of their specifications notebooks from Sony and Apple brands.

MacBook Air vs. Sony VAIO VGN-TZ150N/B

We’d like to start with much-talked-of MacBook Air and his opponent, Sony VAIO VGN-TZ150N/B. Most people even do not put them in a row, since no one can come up with an ultra-thin Air. This is a market’s novation. Again, it is Apple, which reaches new heights. To begin with, I think, we should address their core specifications:

As one could see from the table, the Sony notebook is much more inferior to the similar device from Apple. In respect to advantages, the MacBook Air has come much more ahead in this category. Almost for all parameters, from processor’s frequency to graphic chipset it holds the leadership. It lost, though, in terms of hard drive capacity, but I think in order to work and play games it is completely enough those 80 Gb which are already supplied with this notebook. In the first test the ultimate leadership received the MacBook Air.

The second test checked which notebook is more compact and comfortable in use, but the most important thing was, how long can it work...

By reghardware.co.uk

Details of Lenovo’s new ultraportable have been leaking out for nearly a month.

The latest bit of info on the X300 comes from a product page on Best Buy’s business site, which according to TrustedReviews and others listed a $2,744 configuration with a 13.3-inch display, 2GB memory, a 64GB SSD (solid-state disk) and a DVD burner. Meanwhile, a CDW product page states the X300 will be available on February 26. At this rate, there won’t be much left for Lenovo to announce.

Because of its compelling specs, the X300 has been dubbed by some reviews sites as a “MacBook Air-killer.” Never mind that Lenovo already has a loyal business following for its popular ThinkPad X-series ultraportables, while the MacBook Air has been shipping for slightly more than a week to mixed reviews. In any event, based on what has been reported so far, here’s how the two stack up.

Round 1: Performance

Clearly, the MacBook Air destroys the Vaio here, in all features other than RAM and hard drive space. It’s a bit odd that the Sony has a higher-capacity 1.8-inch hard drive, but perhaps that drive is thicker than what will fit in Apple’s design. Overall, the winner in this category isn’t surprising, given that it was one of the Air’s focus areas. It really is impressive, though, how much power Apple has packed into such a thin chassis. Winner: MacBook Air.

In the MacWorld 2008 keynote, Steve Jobs proudly announced the MacBook Air with special thanks to Intel for making it possible. So that everyone knows the CPU used in the MacBook Air is special

Appearance comparison of MacBook Air, Sony VAIO TZ, Asus Eee PC laptops.

That distinction belongs to the Pedion, an ill-fated notebook developed by Mitsubishi and Hewlett-Packard back in 1997.The Pedion measured 18.4 millimeters thick, which comes out to 0.7244 inch thick. Although the Air gets to 0.16 inch at the thinnest point, the Air is 0.76 inch thick at the beefiest portion, making it minutely thicker. Mitsubishi released the Pedion in early 1998.