Sony PCV-RZ16G Specification Guide

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written permission is prohibited. Sony, i.LINK, VAIO Digital Studio, VAIO Smart,  SonicStage, Memory

Stick, DVgate, MovieShaker, PictureGear Studio, VAIO Media,  Click to DVD, and VAIO are trademarks

of Sony. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Microsoft, Windows and

Outlook are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Realone is a trademark of RealNetworks, Inc.

Wordperfect, QuatroPro, CorelCENTRAL, and Corel Presentations are trademarks of Corel

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standards of the International Energy Star Program for energy efficiency. Features and specifications

are subject to change without notice. Weights and measurements are approximate.

Printed in U.S.A. 8/02 

• Intel

®

Pentium

®

4 Processor 2.66GHz

†

•  1GB PC-2100 DDR (Expandable to 1.5 GB) 

• 533MHz Front Side Bus

• 120GB

††

7200rpm Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive 

• DVD-RW / CD-RW Drive***

• DVD-ROM Drive

•

Giga Pocket

TM

Personal Video Recorder

• Watch Live 

TV  

• 

Record Shows for Later Playback

• 

Internet TV Programming Guide

• Analog Video Input for 

8mm or VHS

Camcorders

•  4X AGP 3D Graphics Hardware Acceleration 

(nVIDIA

®

GeForce4

™

MX 440) 

•  64MB Video Memory (128-bit DDR) 

•  High-Speed Internet Ready with 

10Base-T/100Base-TX Fast Ethernet

•  Front and Rear Accessible i.LINK

®

(IEEE

1394) Interfaces and USB 2.0 Connections

1

• Memory Stick

®

Media Slot

•  Programmable VAIO Smart

™

Keyboard 

¾ Giga Pocket

¾ Watch and Record TV Programs
¾ DVD-RW / CD-RW - Create Your Own DVDs!***
¾ Intel

¾ 1GB PC-2100 DDR / 120

††

¾ 64MB nVIDIA

®

¾ i.LINK

®

i.LINK

®

(IEEE 1394)

Video Audio Integrated Operation

With 

Personal V

ideo

Recorder & DVD

Recorder

PCV-RZ16G

Intel

®

Pentium

®

4 Processor 2.66GHz

†

512KB Integrated On-Die Level 2

533MHz

1GB PC-2100 DDR (expandable to 1.5 GB)

120GB

††

7200rpm Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive

DVD-RW (2X max. write / 1X max. rewrite / 4X

max. read)

CD-RW (8X max. write / 4X max. rewrite / 24X

max. read)

16X max. DVD-ROM Read / 40X max. CD-ROM

Read

3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive

4X AGP 3D Graphics Hardware Acceleration 

(nVIDIA

®

GeForce4

™

MX 440)

64MB Video Memory (128-bit DDR)

MPEG2 Realtime Encoder/Decoder board

with TV Tuner

10Base-T/100Base-TX Fast Ethernet

V.90 compatible data/fax modem

One AGP (occupied by Graphics Card)

Three PCI (two occupied)

Memory Stick

®

Media Slot

Two 5.25" Half-Height (occupied)

One External 3.5" (occupied)

Two Internal 3.5" (one occupied)

Six USB 2.0 (two front/four rear)

One S/PDIF Audio Out

Two PS/2

®

(Mouse/Keyboard)

One VGA/DVI monitor port

One Serial / One Line In

One 6pin i.LINK port (rear)/ One 4pin (front)

One Headphone / One Microphone

S-Video: Two Inputs/ One Output

Composite Video / Audio Input

Stereo Line Input/Output

Coaxial Input (VHF/UHF)

Speakers (Stereo)

VAIO Smart

™

Keyboard

PS/2

®

Wheel Mouse

4pin-4pin i.LINK cable

TV Coaxial cable

Two Composite to S-Video Adapters

100-120V -3A (50/60Hz)

ACPI 1.0 Compliant 

8.0"(W) x 14.2"(H) x 14.6"(D)

28.5 lbs.

Click to DVD

TM

- 

DVD Creation

PictureGear Studio

TM

- Digital Photo

DVgate

™

- Digital Video

SonicStage

™

for VAIO

®

PC

- Music

MovieShaker

™

- Digital Video

Network Smart Capture 

- Video Webcast

VAIO Media

TM

- Network File Sharing

Microsoft

®

Windows

®

XP Home Edition

Sony PCs use Genuine Microsoft

®

Windows

®

Operating Systems

www.microsoft.com/piracy/howtotell

Adobe

®

Premiere

®

LE

Corel WordPerfect

®

Office 2002

Wordperfect 

®

- Word Processing

Quattro Pro

®

- Spreadsheet

Corel

®

Presentations

TM

-

Slide Show Creation

CorelCENTRAL

TM

-

Personal Info Manager

Intuit Quicken® 2002

2

Adobe

®

Photoshop

®

Elements

Veritas

®

RecordNow

TM

DX

Adobe

®

Acrobat

®

Reader

®

Apple QuickTime

®

Microsoft

®

Outlook

®

Express

RealNetworks

®

RealOne

TM

Player

Trend Micro PC-Cillin

®

2002**

Sony Application Recovery CD(s)

Sony System Recovery CD(s)

VAIO Support Agent

America Online

®**

EarthLink TotalAccess

™**

One Year Limited Express Repair Service (upon

registration; 90 days without registration)*

One Year Parts and Labor (upon registration; 90

days without registration)*

Hardware: One Year

Software and Operating System: 90 Days

* Display sold separately.

† GHz denotes microprocessor internal clock speed; other factors

may affect application performance.

†† GB means one billion bytes when referring to Hard Drive capaci-

ty.  Accessible capacity may vary.

*  Certain restrictions apply.
**  Requires payment of additional fees or subscription for use.
***  DVD compatibility is not universal.
1 i.LINK is a trademark of Sony used only to designate that a prod-

uct contains an IEEE 1394 connector. All products with an i.LINK
connector may not communicate with each other.

2  Previous Quicken users may require additional upgrade.