I think the X stands for something obscene. Like in obscenely expensive. Like most Sony products. Don’t mistake me – I’m only dissing Sony for their super duper expensive products and not their quality nor reliability. The Sony products which are made in Japan are top-notch in terms of quality; I should know, I own a couple of Sony products. It’s only their stratospherical pricing that bothers me, but like the Chinese say, cheap things not good, good things not cheap.
Anyway, enough of that side-tracking. At the IFA trade show in Germany, Sony took the wraps off their latest netbook/notebook offering, calling it the X-series. It sports an 11″ screen and an as-yet-unannounced processor. The demo unit was using an Intel Atom processor though, but Sony says that the choice of processor if far from being finalised, and the final specifications should be known by October, with the netbook being available sometime after Windows 7 launches, which means sometime after Oct 22nd, with Sony targeting a week after Windows 7′s commercial availability. The price? If you have to ask, you can’t afford a Sony! Word has it less than 2,000. That’s US dollars. Yes, read it and weep…
Check out the thin-ness of the VAIO X on top of an Apple Macbook Pro. Now if that’s not slim, I don’t know what it. I think you can cut yourself on the VAIO X, similar to how you can get a paper cut. I’m absolutely digging the chiclet keyboard! Click here for engadget’s hands on with the X. There’s no HDMI output, which likely means that the screen resolution is not going to be tremendously high resolution; but will it sport a 1024 x 600 pixel resolution? I think if it did, it would be a travesty to that 11″ screen! I think it’ll be a 1366 x 768 pixel resolution screen.
As usual, I’ll only know the availability and pricing when it is in stores in Malaysia, because no one from Sony Malaysia nor their PR agency has ever wanted to get in touch with me, boo hoo…
