Thursday, January 08, 2009


Sony P-series Lifestyle PC
They loathe to call it a netbook, but that's essentially what it is, albeit a very expensive $900 netbook. It has a Atom Z520 1.33GHz processor (what's up with that? the Atom N270 already does 1.6GHz)

The keyboard layout is horrible, just like most other netbooks. Especially where it concerns the tiny right shift key. Unfortunately, they do this so the keyboard looks aesthetically pleasing. Why don't they follow the lead of Apple's keyboard, and just shrink the "inverted T" arrow keys instead?!?!

They did get the pointer stick right, though. Even ThinkPad's S10 netbook missed the point (pun intended) and used a touch pad instead.

Other plusses:
* 8-inch 1600x768 LCD (avg netbooks have 1024x600)
* 3G wireless through Verizon
* GPS, bluetooth
* Windows Vista (up until now, most netbooks offered only XP)
(side note: I run Vista Business occasionally on my MSI Wind netbook and I find that it runs about 20% longer on batteries than XP)

See more pics at CNET

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