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Chris

4:29 PM on 9 October, 2009

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£1500 for a glorified netbook... OK, there's much more to it than the average netbook, but I'd pay £700 or £900 at most, which is already twice the price of a good netbook. £1500 is ridiculous; it actually makes the Macbook Air look like reasonable value.

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ilovethemonkeyhead

4:37 PM on 9 October, 2009

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take note apple: the Fn key in the correct position, here.

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Steve

5:04 PM on 9 October, 2009

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As I was saying yesterday, I'm still very keen on this! The Atom CPU is a bit of shame and the price is horrendous, but it still hasn't put me off. Andy, when do you think you'll be able to review this?

In the UK we are getting only 2 models to start with, VPCX11Z1E/X (2GHz, 256GB SSD, Carbon Black) & VPCX11S1E/B (1.86GHz, 128GB SSD, Black). So the VPCX11Z1E/X is the one to go for (£1700!).

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PSV

5:30 PM on 9 October, 2009

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I don't understand why some companies produce models with square trackpads for widescreen displays; to me it seems natural to have a trackpad that is in the same proportion as the screen.

Also, why do laptop manufacturers still insist on placing a VGA port on a laptop? Surely that is a little old by now and they should be using DVI or something a little more modern, perhaps even HDMI.

Personally, if I had a choice, I think I'd rather have the Vaio P over this, since it brings back fond memories of the Sony PictureBook, which I always craved to own when I was younger, but never had the cash for one.

Still, I do admire Sony for occasionally bringing out these insane super-thin laptops, ever since they launched the X505.

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Andy0d2

7:36 PM on 9 October, 2009

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overpriced, underpowered, stupid touch-pad. Personally if I was in the market I would get a TT - so much more functionality without much less portability, for a similar price (give or take a few hundred - depending on model). A few compelling reasons not to buy this. One to buy - its crazy thin - actually has a worrying but not surprising amount a flex on the prototypes at-least due to this.

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MarcoVloothuis

1:14 AM on 10 October, 2009

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If you value reliability, good service and your business, I would NOT even touch Sony with a barge pole, hope this saves others from serious down-time when using VAIOs for business. I am absolutely convinced Sony VAIO is designed to fail and a complete rip-off. They should be avoided for their lousy and incompetent customer service, especially in Europe.

Once it BSODs you have an expensive brick, go with a manufacturer that *tries* to backup their products, it’s a scandal the way Sony handled the GPU problem.

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Victor2

10:17 AM on 10 October, 2009

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You can get a top model of this in Japan for just $1200 tax included, $1500 in USA.

I totally don't understand why UK customers always have to pay much much more, are we the richest or dummiest?

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georgegl

1:29 PM on 10 October, 2009

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Is this a fan? In the "inside x" layout picture, at the end of the aluminum piece, is this a fan? I thought that this beauty was without a fan...

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Steve

10:36 AM on 12 October, 2009

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Andy, what gestures are able to be performed on the touchpad? How does it compares to the gestures available on the Macs? Thanks.

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BernieMarais

1:37 AM on 3 June, 2010

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I agree with the comment made by Marco Vloothuis he is right. The Sony VAIO I owned crashed and Sony's Europe customer service did not come to the rescue, in fact they did not want to know about it. I can guarantee that you are left with an expensive paper weight.

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