VAIO P, VAIO W and VAIO X Available in new colors

Sony’s ultra-portables are now available in new colors. The popular Vaio X can now be bought in silver color. Vaio P’s color range now includes a hot pink color that will surely attract a lot of ladies for sure.

The pine trail Vaio W has got a whole body color treatment, which means that black one will have black touchpad, black bezel and so on. Vaio W is available in black, pink and white.

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SONY VAIO P review

SONY VAIO X review

SONY VAIO X leather case

Here is a sleek leather case for your amazing VAIO X notebook from PDAir. This case costs $80 and promises to protect your SONY VAIO X from all sorts of hits and bumps.

It opens and closes with its magnetic closer. It has two pockets on the inside of its flap to keep your SD cards and a pocket to keep your business or credit card.

There is a cut on its right side for the lan port too. This makes sure that you do not need to take it out from its case.

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SONY VAIO X gets Mac OS X treatment!

Is there a netbook in the world which has NOT been turned into a Hackintosh? The “slim and elegant” VAIO X from SONY, has finally been Hackintosh-ed! Asama, used his VAIO P’s Mac OS X image on his VAIO X and voila, it worked! As expected, the WiFi did not work. Unfortunately, that cannot be replaced as everything is soldered to its logicboard. For sure, the VAIO X has come complex stuff going under its bonnet, thus making it very tough for the modders to mod this little machine

SONY VAIO X although got mixed expressions in our review and we were not very impressed with its performance and it pinches us that a $1000+ machine gives unsatisfactory performance, but then, at the same time, it is very exciting to see a non-Macbook machine running Mac OS X operating system.

VAIO X more complex than Macbook Air

We all knew that SONY did some serious engineering behind the scenes to make the VAIO X (review here) so slim and still somehow kept the overall feature-set attractive. However, that did not stop few tech geeks from Japan to take apart the whole unit. They came to a conclusion that VAIO X is, infact, harder to assemble than the Apple’s Macbook Air which happens to be its direct contender.

“By the way, it would be very difficult to come up with the assembly sequence for the Vaio X,” an engineer said. “Are the components mounted all at once after connecting them with one another? There must be a correct procedure, but it must be very difficult. That’s why Sony manufactures the PC at a plant in Japan.”

The main reason behind VAIO X’s lightness: 7gm Sandisk SSD

Ever since the Sony VAIO X has been unveiled, it has amazed a lot of people around the world. This netbook is so light; just about the weight of a SONY VAIO P. But that is an 8-inch notebook and the SONY VAIO X is an 11-inch device.

So what makes it so light, other than the fact the Sony has used carbon fiber in it? Well, it is the 64GB SSD that weighs just 7gms! Great job, Sony.

SONY VAIO X REVIEW

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SONY VAIO X specifications – runs Atom CPU and costs $1300 – has anemic battery life

SONY has finally uncovered the specifications of the VAIO X. We now know that it runs Atom Z550 CPU which runs at 2GHz clock speed. Weighing just 1.6pounds (0.7kg), it is very light given its size. It is infact lighter than the first generation ASUS EEE PC (70x series). It is also just 0.5-inch thick. Featuring an 11.1-inch display, it packs the usual 1366×768 pixels. The display is LED backlight too and uses the infamous Intel GMA 500 chipset, which does not behaves nicely when running HD videos (so far). It also incorporates GPS so that you never get lost again. It uses 128GB SSD for storage and has 2GB RAM.

Just like VAIO P, it has two memory card slots: Memory Stick Pro and SD card slot. VAIO X runs Windows 7 Home Premium (which means no XP compatibility mode for you).

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No 24-hr battery life for Sony Vaio X

In Japan at CEATEC 2009, ultraportable Sony Vaio X is (again) being displayed. Although we still do not know much about its processor, but we have come to know that its claim to have a 24 hour battery is wrong. The VAIO X won’t be sold with any such battery.

A larger capacity battery that should run for a long time will be made available separately. The standard battery which the VAIO X comes with does NOT offer any sort of all day battery life and stick out from bottom ruining its slim and sleek profile

SONY VAIO X quick analysis on basis of pictures – direct from Japan’s CEATEC 2009

It is not an unknown fact that SONY has done a great job with the extremely elegant-looking Sony Vaio X. When one looks at it, he/she immediately gets the impression of how sleek this netbook/mini-notebook is. Apart from its nicely designed keyboard, it has a great touchpad with two left and right click buttons too that do not require much effort to register clicks.

Thanks to the great engineers at SONY, they did not go for the flaps to make it look streamlined (like the case in ASUS EEE 1008HA). The two USB 2.0 ports are fully exposed to the user. Also present is a the Kensington lock, power port and earphone jack.

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Sony Vaio X appears on Sony Japan Website

The ultra thin and light netbook by Sony, VAIO X is near its official release as it has shown itself up at Sony Style Japan. Currently, we do not know what processor is being used in this notebook/netbook. It was earlier shown with Intel Atom processor, but we expect it to change to some CULV processor upon its release.

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Sony VAIO X – Atom powered VAIO TT replacement? We do not think so! – Lots of pictures of it inside!

Sony has unveiled its latest netbook offering: the VAIO X. It is very sleek and is almost half-an-inch thin. This new gorgeous-looking ultraportable comes with an 11.1-inch screen and weighs just 1.5 pounds! Reason? It uses carbon fiber. Right now, the specs have not been fully finalized, but for the particular moment, it is there with an Atom processor. However, we expect SONY to swap it with a bit more powerful CULV processor. It has got a 2GB RAM module and a 31Wh battery. Its resolution is 1366 x 768 and the display is matte.

Other than that, it comes with 2 USB 2.0 ports, VGA out and has WWAN support. The official word regarding the specs is expected to come in the month of October and will go on sale after Windows 7′s release.

So is it valid replacement to their now defunct VAIO TT? Well, VAIO TT was very very expensive, which retailed for over $2000. SONY was not able to sell a lot of those units due to similar form factor offered by the netbooks that retailed for as low as $200, which is 1/10th of VAIO TT’s price. If the SONY still decides to ship with the ATOM processor, then VAIO X will NOT be a VAIO TT replacement as the TT was able to run Vista pretty nicely and had 4GB RAM. Unfortunately, due to wonderful restrictions enforced by Intel in their Atom processors, it is not possible to use have 4GB RAM in a netbook. Atom, although runs Vista quite well (after a bit of tweaking and 2GB RAM), but the experience and speed is not as good as XP. Perhaps Windows 7 will be able to do what Vista could not do: Kill Windows XP.

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