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Welcome to the club: Sony debuts a netbook
July 7, 2009 |
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Sony Tuesday became the latest entrant to the exploding netbook market with the unveiling of its Vaio W-series. The Sony netbooks, which will be available next month, make Sony the last major PC manufacturer to get into the netbook game.Sony's Vaio W-series netbook weighs 2.6 pounds and is 10.5 inches high by 1.28 inches wide by 7.1 inches deep, according to specs released by Sony and reports from the Vaio W-series launch event in Tokyo Tuesday.The W-series netbook has a 10.1-inch widescreen display with 1366 x 768 resolution -- notably more than many of the 1024 x 600 resolution netbooks out there -- and includes two USB ports, VGA out, Ethernet port, a Webcam and multimedia slots for SD memory and Memory Stick Duo. It's based around anIntel Atom processor -- a 1.66 GHz N280 -- and will come pre-installed with Microsoft's Windows XP Home Edition.On the storage front, the netbook has 1 GB of system memory and a 160-GB, 5,400 RPM hard drive. Its wireless capabilities include 802.11a/b/g and Bluetooth.Sony's Vaio W-series will be available in Japan, most of Europe, and North America in August. Sony will sell the W-series for about 60,000 yen (about $630), which makes it more expensive than some netbooks from Acer and Dell and about the same as offerings from Toshiba, Fujitsu.Sony in a statement also played up the environmentally friendly aspects of the W-series, pointing to its mercury-free LCD with LED backlight, its Energy Star version 5.0 qualification and its recycled packaging materials.
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