The notebook's external storage options include a LS-120 SuperDisk drive (which also supports 3.5-inch floppy disks), a CD-ROM drive, a DVD ROM drive and hard disk drive options of up to 20G bytes.

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The Vaio Digital Studio 547 computer includes a 500MHz Pentium III processor, 128 MB of RAM, a 8x DVD-ROM drive, a 4x Rewritable CD (CD-RW) drive, and a 20 GB hard drive.

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It comes complete with 15- or 14.1-inch displaces, Mobile P4 processors, up to 40 MB of storage and a choice of CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD or a drive that can handle all of the above.

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