vaio w – Gadget Teaser https://www.gadgetteaser.com Tracking the gadget and tech revolution Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:57:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 Sony Enters the Netbook War https://www.gadgetteaser.com/2009/07/07/sony-enters-the-netbook-war/ https://www.gadgetteaser.com/2009/07/07/sony-enters-the-netbook-war/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:57:08 +0000 https://www.gadgetteaser.com/?p=1464 Sony senior vice president Mike Abary once called the netbook market “a race to the bottom.” Apparently it’s a race his company intends to join (and quite possibly lose if they stick to that price). Today Sony announced the Vaio W – their very first netbook at a very un-netbookish price. First the specs. The […]

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]]> The Sony Vaio W.Sony senior vice president Mike Abary once called the netbook market “a race to the bottom.” Apparently it’s a race his company intends to join (and quite possibly lose if they stick to that price). Today Sony announced the Vaio W – their very first netbook at a very un-netbookish price.

First the specs. The Vaio W runs with the netbook standard 1.6GHz Atom processor, 10-inch screen, 160GB HDD, and 1GB RAM. In the details you’ll also get Bluetooth support, an ethernet jack, a wireless card, some USB ports and (I really like this one) an SD slot that reads Memory Sticks! I know it’s unreasonable, but I really fear that every new Sony computer is just going to stick us with a Memory Stick reader. Glad they keep proving me wrong.

The Vaio W makes one other “improvement” over many of the netbooks today. The W screen abandons the 1024 x 600 resolution for a 1366 x 768 display, meaning the text on your already limited screen just got smaller. Not bad for people with decent eyesight. Could be trouble for the rest of the world.

And then there’s the price. The Vaio W comes in at a whopping $500. Okay, so it’s not much more than the top-of-the-line (does that even work with netbooks?) models from Dell and Asus, and it does get that nifty SD slot (oh right, all Eee PCs have one of those), but $500 is getting to be a little pricey for a barebones PC.

If price doesn’t bug you, though, you’ll have your choice between white, pink, and, ahem, chocolate brown. If I were you I’d be looking elsewhere for my netbook, but maybe that’s just me.

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