Technology.am (July 15, 2009) — Sony introduced its new Mini-W netbooks in London. This netbooks aims to those people who really want a netbook, and are willing to pay a bit extra to make it a Sony Vaio: the estimated street price is £399 and it should be available in the middle of August.
The weight of Mini W netbook is 1.19kg with a 1.66GHz Atom processor running Microsoft Windows XP in 1GB of memory, with a 160GB hard drive. Connectivity includes two USB ports, Ethernet, and both SD and MagicGate card sots.
If you’re a Sony Memory Stick user, this may be the only netbook for you. It has one of the new textured touchpads, two buttons for mouse-clicks and a useful Wi-Fi on/off switch on the front left.
You also get a Sony isolated keyboard, which is a bit small but quite usable. But the real difference is the native resolution of the 10.1-inch screen: 1366 x 768 pixels. This is the same as many notebooks with 13in or larger screens.
It has three hours battery life, using the standard 3-cell battery. This netbooks comes in three colours that are white, pink, and dark brown.
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David R. Rosen said:
This is a great little machine for those who need to surf the web, take notes, do basic word processing and spread-sheeting, and want most of the functionality of MS Office without the bloat and the loads of features that are rarely used but slow your computer and fill your hard drive. The machine has the most comfortable small keyboard I’ve ever used, because the keys are flat and so the surfaces that your fingerpads touch are actually about the size of standard keyboards. (Compare an Acer netbook to see what I mean.) It runs XP instead of Vista, so bloat is not so much of an issue (and things get really fast once you delete all the useless trial software). The scratchpad is very nice–I like the textured surface. (Some people don’t, for some reason.) Connecting to the web is a snap. The built-in camera/microphone setup is an advanced touch for such a low-priced machine, though I can’t say I’ll have much use for it. But the strongest feature to recommend the machine is the battery life. When they sa