First the good news: Sony's new Vaio X thin and light laptop won't necessarily set you back $1500. Instead it has a starting price of $1300, which isn't bad for a Sony Vaio laptop with a carbon fiber frame and a high performance solid state disk.
Now for the less good news: The laptop packs an Intel Atom processor. While that should certainly help in the battery life department, don't expect the Sony Vaio X to be a high performance machine.
After teasing us with photos and a handful of specs for the last few weeks, Sony finally made the Vaio X official last night. The laptop has an 11.1 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and measures 10.95″ x 0.55″ x 7.29″ while weighing just 1.5 to 1.6 pounds with the standard battery. It has a 2GHz Intel Atom Z550 processor and GMA 500 graphics. It comes standard with a solid state disk ranging from 64GB to 128GB, and ships with a standard battery that's good for up to 3.5 hours. Or you can spend some extra cash on an extended battery that can run up to 14 hours on a charge.
The Vaio X also packs 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and a Verizon Wireless mobile broadband module.
The laptop will be available on October 22nd, and Sony is taking preorders with the base model going for $1299.99 and a higher end version (with a 128GB SSD instead of the base 64GB SSD) going for $1499.99.
Laptop Magazine got a chance to spend some time with the Sony Vaio X and reports that the extended battery adds 0.9 pounds, bringing the total to about 2.4 pounds. That's a much more netbook-like weight, but there aren't many netbooks that get up to 17 hours of battery life. According to Laptop, the keyboard is 75% full sized, which sounds really small for an 11.1 inch laptop to me. But Laptop's Mark Spoonauer says it's fairly easy to type on.
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Sony launches Vaio X ultrathin laptop with prices starting at $1300
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