Sony Vaio PCG-Z505/Z600

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I bought a pair of two old Sony Vaio laptops; a PCG-Z600RE and a ~~PCG-Z600TEK~~ in February 2025 as more candidates for a top-end DOS gaming laptop.

Actually, on delivery and closer examination, the PCG-Z600TEK turned out to be a PCG-Z600HEK - The difference being it had the better Pentium III 800MHz, rather than the 700MHz.

The PCG-Z600xxx models are the UK/European version of the PCG-ZR505, and hence not really mentioned much. There are a lot of variations of these machines.

	Z505HE	Z505HS	Z505LE	Z505LS	Z600RE	Z600NE	Z600LE	Z600TE	Z600HE
Processor	Intel Pentium III	Intel Pentium III	Intel Pentium III	Intel Pentium III	Intel Pentium III	Intel Pentium III	Intel Pentium III	Intel Pentium III	Intel Pentium III
Processor Speed	450MHz	500MHz	650MHz	750MHz	500MHz	650MHz	700MHz	700MHz	800MHz
Graphics Type	NeoMagic	NeoMagic	ATI	ATI	NeoMagic	NeoMagic	ATI	ATI	ATI
Graphics Model	MagicMedia 256AV	MagicMedia 256AV	Rage Mobility M1	Rage Mobility M1	MagicMedia 256AV	MagicGraph 256XL+	Rage Mobility M1	Rage Mobility M1	Rage Mobility M1
Graphics Bus	AGP	AGP	AGP	AGP	AGP	AGP	AGP	AGP	AGP
Graphics RAM	2.5MB	2.5MB	8MB	8MB	2.5MB	6MB	8MB	8MB	8MB
Screen Size	12“	12”	12“	12”	12“	12”	12“	12”	12“
Screen Resolution	1024×768	1024×768	1024×768	1024×768	1024×768	1024×768	1024×768	1024×768	1024×768
Audio Type	Yamaha	Yamaha	Yamaha	Yamaha	Yamaha	Yamaha	Yamaha	Yamaha	Yamaha
Audio Model

That is not all of them!

They share a common (slim) chassis, with a 12” 1024×768 screen, the same battery and no internal FDD/CD/DVD capability (they were modelled as an ultra portable). The main differences are the use of the NeoMagic graphics versus ATI Rage Mobility. The ATI option is much, much better with the typical smooth scaling of non-native screen modes to the LCD panel.

PCG-Z600RE