techradar.com - 7/7/2009
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Sony is all set to make its first foray into the world of netbooks, announcing that a new entry to its popular Vaio range, the Sony Vaio W series, will be priced at 60,000 yen or around £390. The Sony Vaio W is the Japanese computing giant's first official 'netbook', although Sony would still ...
Vaio W is Sony's netbook
feeds.boingboing.net 7/7/2009 —
The Vaio W has a 10.1" display, 1.6GHz Atom CPU, a gig of RAM, and runs Windows XP. it's better than a standard international netbook--there's a 1366x768 display, for example--but it lacks 3G and SSD options. It will be $500.
If you're wondering why Sony decided to enter this market ...
Sony Vaio W: It's a Very Pretty $500 Netbook, Of Course [NetBooks]
gizmodo.com 7/7/2009 — I love the idea of a Vaio netbook , but the only thing that actually gets me going about the first of inevitably many Sony Vaio W netbooks is the 1366x768 10.1-inch screen (which ain't even unique). It's pretty, though. And that is the selling ...
Sony Announces $500 Netbook, Wins ‘Race to Bottom’
wired.com 7/7/2009 — Sony doesn’t make netbooks. the Vaio P, for example is absolutely, positively not a netbook. In fact, in February Sony senior vice president Mike Abary called the whole netbook market “a race to the bottom.”
That’s right. ...
Netbooks Finally Exist: Sony VAIO W to Hit for $499
jkontherun.com 7/8/2009 — The lowly netbook has hit the big stage as previous netbook skeptic Sony has announced their own model coming, the VAIO W for $499. This is not cheap for a netbook but it is at the bottom of the price barrel for Sony, makers of stylized notebooks ...
Sony Vaio W series netbook
newlaunches.com 7/8/2009 — Sony Japan has taken the wraps off of the Vaio W series netbook. To be made available in three colors white, pink and brown the netbook is powered by Atom N280 processor at 1.66 Ghz, 1 GB of RAM all running on a Intel 945GSE Express chip set. Other ...
Sony to debut netbook next month —
SolSie.com
Sony officially jumps in to the netbook arena starting August. The new VAIO W series will be launched in Japan first , U.S. and Europe to follow shortly after.
"The netbook market is expanding, and Sony is following this trend," said company spokesman Shinichi Tobe.
Sony already sells the ...
Sony Announces Vaio W Netbook Coming To The US —
Maximum PC all RSS Feed
With their latest introduction to the Vaio line Sony is looking to bring their newest netbook, the Vaio W, to the states.
The 10.1-inch netbook will feature some pretty common specs: a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM, Windows XP, Bluetooth, 802.11b/g/n, VGA out, two USB ports, ...
Sony announces VAIO W Series netbook with whopping 2 hour battery —
Krunker
OK.. let’s try this again shall we? After launching their first Atom-based netbook err.. “Lifestyle PC” earlier this year, Sony has finally decided to announce a real netbook/mini-notebook in the form of the Sony VAIO W Series . Available in three colors, the VAIO W has your usual ...
Sony Discovers Netbooks —
Mobility Site
The fallen tech giant Sony has been insisting for several months that Netbooks are a tawdry, sordid “race to the bottom” and that the Vaio P was NOT a netbook despite the fact that it looked, acted and smelled like a high-end netbook. Their logic being, of course, that Sony would never make a ...
Sony joins Netbook game with the Vaio W —
Crave: The gadget blog
(Credit: Sony)
Forget Sony's CES protestations that it wasn't interested in doing a Netbook. Forget, even, the impressively overreaching Vaio P ("Don't call it a Netbook!") Lifestyle PC . Sony has finally caved to market demand and is introducing what the company calls, "a chic new line of ...
Sony annonce son netbook Sony Vaio W —
w3sh magazine
Après le populaire et original Vaio P, Sony vient d’annoncer un netbook au design plus traditionnel.
Le Sony Vaio W (VPCW119XJ) est animé par un processeur Atom N280 (1.66 GHz) et dispose d’un écran 10.1 pouces de résolution WXGA (1366×768), de 1GB RAM, d’un disque de 160GB, ...
Sony VAIO W Series Mini Notebook —
iTech News Net
Sony presents the new VAIO W Series mini notebook PC that will come in three vibrant colors, berry pink, sugar white and cocoa brown. Spec wise, the 10.1-inch VAIO W is not really special, getting a pretty standard netbook configuration including Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor, 1GB RAM, ...
Sony announces $499 Vaio W netbook —
The Mobile Gadgeteer
Andrew wrote about the arrival of the 99 cent netbook yesterday and today we here about the $499 netbook from Sony. The 99 cent netbook really is the much pricier model because you have to combine that with a whopping $60/month data access fee. While the new Sony model is a bit expensive for a ...
Sony VAIO W Netbook —
PR News:
Engadget have posted news showing the new Sony VAIO W netbooks, Sony are hoping the new VAIO W will impact the market better then the overpriced Sony VAIO P . Full details and photos are not available at the moment however there is a video which can be seen towards the end of this post.
So ...
Sony VAIO Mini W Netbook comes to US and Europe —
I4U News
Earlier today we reported about Sony introducing its first Netbook in Japan with the Sony VAIO W Series. The Sony VAIO W is not a stunner and just a netbook offering the same old same old. For that reason I tought Sony might keep this one in Japan and go g...
Sony VAIO W: mainstream 10-inch netbook, typical Sony price —
SlashGear
Sony’s VAIO P was never the netbook many people expected it to be – its unusual screen aspect, stand-out form-factor and high sticker price meant it never quite competed with the regular Atom N270 netbook crowd – so the company is back with a far more mainstream alternative . ...
Sony does the netbook with Vaio Mini W-series —
T3.com News
We thought Sony was side stepping the netbook market, instead offering up the netbook-like, high-end Vaio P-series for al altogether more discerning crowd. How wrong we were - just months after the P Series hit the shelves, Sony is back with something more in keeping with the majority of ...
First Sony Netbook unveiled with VAIO W Series VPCW119XJ —
I4U News
Sony announced their first Netbook today with the Sony VAIO W Series VPCW119XJ. Sony vehemently claimed that the Sony VAIO P is not a netbook, but the Sony VAIO W Series is definitely one as it runs on an Intel Atom CPU and the Japanese to English translat...
Sony preps hi-res Atom N netbook —
The Register
Has Intel relaxed its rules? Sony launched its first netbook, the Vaio P, back in February. The P's high price undoubtedly put plenty of punters off, so the consumer electronics giant is having another go, this time with a more standard notebook ...
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