This evening I took out my #Vaio TZ11 to install #Haiku on it, and right away I noticed a few things, some of which I had forgotten:
The screen is damn good for the time, even if it's “only” 1366x768 the color rendition is great and the physical size a small-ish 11” which means pixel density is quite good.
Best keyboard ever in a laptop, IMO. The touchpad does not compare well with newer ones.
It's smaller than a MacBook, although not thinner than an Air, and lighter while having more ports, a SD card reader, and a combo DVD/CD-RW drive.
The spinning hard drive (I had no money for an SSD in 2007 prices) is surprisingly silent.
Haiku flies despite the rotating hard drive. The install took just a few minutes. Also: all hardware is supported except the webcam (which was painful to get working also on Linux).
There are Chinese sellers on eBay carrying mSATA adaptors (probably too bulky and wouldn't fit), CompactFlash adaptors (my second generation iPod has one of these, works well), and even SSDs designed to replace the tiny Toshiba hard drives, yeah.
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