Sony VAIO X Series gets priced and spec’d
Well, well, well. Look what we’ve just got our hands on… One of our Northern ninjas has hit us with full pricing and specifications for Sony’s VAIO X Series line of notebooks (these are meant for the Canadian market but give us a good ballpark). We’ve been told it will be announced sometime tomorrow, but hey, you know how we roll.
The Sony VAIO X Series is being billed as the “world’s lightest notebook,” we’ve been told and it’s due in part to its carbon-fiber chassis. It weighs 1.6 pounds and is just over half an inch thin. There’s a 16:9 aspect ratio display that clocks in at 11.1″ that features some nice LED backlighted action. Our ninja tells us that the notebook will come with standard and “super-extended” batteries with the standard battery providing around 3.5 hours of battery life and the “super-extended” battery lasting up to 14 hours! The touchpad of the notebook features multi-touch functionality letting you flick through photos, rotate items, zoom in and out, and scroll both directions right from the touchpad.
Lastly, the X Series ships with a SSD drive and Windows 7 Home Premium. Oh, pricing! How does $1,499 sound? It will be available in Canada starting next month and we’d assume U.S. availability will be at the same time or before.
P.S. We didn’t get an answer from our guy on what CPU is in there, bummer!
So it’s like a carbon fiber, multi touch black MacBook running Windows 7? Not really impressed.
No thanks… My MacBook air is better.
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Looks cool, but the screen is pretty small. I love the idea of using carbon fiber for the chassis. That is very unique.
Oooo sexy!
i prefer my iMac
Goes to show everyone wants to be like Apple when it comes to their products. Simply amazing. Sony innovation? Hello?
It might be a nice piece of hardware, but Sony bundles too much crapware with their computers. The first thing you do after purchasing a Vaio is format the hard drive and install a vanilla copy of Windows.
Holy high-price, Batman!
Well, that’s that.
The P-Series has been a disappointment, and the old T-Series never sold well. What in the hell makes them think that this is a good idea?
I’m a Mac user since 1984 and I like this laptop. If was going to buy a PC laptop, and I’m not, this would be one of my first looks.
At 11.1″ of screen real estate, that’s not a notebook… it’s more of a netbook, as you can’t do anything meaningful on an 11.1″ screen notebook, really.
And it’s way overpriced for what it is, really. Might as well get a 13″ Macbook Pro and save a few hundred bucks too.
Apple releases MacBook Air… everyone laughs.
Two years later, everyone is making Macbook Airs.
Also: Blueray is a bag of hurt. DOA
What a bunch of twats the commenters are!! The whole thing is carbon fibre, allowing the screen to have a surface tension equivalent to 180 lb/sq. inch. It’s light, the slice battery is unobtrusive, it runs a full operating system and it is the same size as those corporate doodads that have been so popular for so long.
It is the dog’s bollocks. Bugger off, MacBoy poofters!
to all you Mac lovers:
that’s great you like your Mac – guess what – nobody gives a damn. It’s not a damn competition – you don’t like it – great and STFU. So many comments are wasted w/ ‘my crap is better than yours’.
Get ur facts right apple fanboys… sony pioneered the ultra thin laptops…..http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/sony-vaio-x505-series/1707-3121_7-30886049.html
MBA is just a cheap tapered knock off of this sony…..
Hmmmmm…, think ill stick with my Compaq a little longer.
STFU up about Macs; they are Macs. And that’s all I have to say.
That may sound rude but 99% of the corporate world agrees with me.- Macs are unusable.
I think its funny that most of the comments claim Sony is copy Apple by making a think laptop? HUH?
First of all, SONY, not Apple, pioneered the “Chiclet Keyboard” that Macs currently used. Sony had a laptop in the late 90’s early 00’s that used the isolated keyboard design.
Secondly. Since when making something thin and light patented by Apple. Sony has been in the thin&light and ultraportable scene since the late 90’s. My brother has a old Viao TX that says hi!
macs are for consumers or industries that are heavy on graphics/graphical design (and even then they can be windows based…). sony’s are way overpriced since most of the time the internals are underpowered. Nokia Booklet 3g FTW!!!!
Can’t wait. It’ll be a nice upgrade from my Sony TZ. 1.6lbs. REMOVABLE battery… unlike the Air…
And the price isn’t that bad. My TZ cost $2,000+. I travel with it all the time and on a typical day, run 10+ FF tabs, Photoshop, Word/Excel/Outlook & MSN/GTalk/TweetDeck on a 1.06 Core Solo without any issues.
Sony had the first ultraportable with the X505… in 2004. Apple copied the keyboard style. Gotta love the Mac fanboys…
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1970
mmmmmhhhh It really seems to get better and better really good designs with some improvement coming out. Lets see what the next summer brings.
Sony is just eternally confused. This is a netbook config with an astronomical price. It has no market or ideal user. A netbook customer can find an increasingly huge number of super thin 10-12″ netbooks for $500 – $750 at the highest. And more and more even have Nvidia Ion. An ultra light customer will look for a bigger screen, say 13″ and an ultra thin factor. This product straddles the middle and does nothing impressive.
@ chris meyers…not to mention the vaio p…which is even more ludicrous
And by the way, don’t complain about the Mac comparisons. When you release a glorified 11″ netbook at a $1500 price, you’re aiming SQUARELY for the same market that Apple aims for, and doing so with a sub-par product. Sony tries to put itself into the same market, thus the comparisons. It tries so in vain.
I agree with jason,
At 11.1″ of screen real estate, that’s not a notebook… it’s more of a netbook, as you can’t do anything meaningful on an 11.1″ screen notebook, really.
100 percent. It’s just a glorified portable dvd player really, for 3 hour flights? barely…what can you really use it for?
you can find all of the specs and images at http://news.sel.sony.com/assets/VAIO2009/index.html