New VAIO notebook Now Style Also Matters.

The Sony Vaio P Series (also known as the Sony Vaio Lifestyle notebook) is one of the best and top rated small notebooks available on the market. Not only is it good looking it is also very expensive. This small notebook is actually called a netbook because you will mostly use it for internet purposes.

It has an 8 inch screen which will probably fit inside your pocket. For the price of $900 you will be the proud owner of a beautiful notebook. This is the best glossy notebook we have ever seen and it looks really luxurious. This is more than an notebook, it's a fashion accessory. It is also very solid despite its size and weight although, it's very easy to scratch so make sure there is nothing sharp in your bag or purse. Unfortunately you don't have many possibilities to upgrade the Vaio Lifestyle notebook because the RAM is soldered to the mother board and you can't separate. You can get your notebook with Windows Vista Basic or Windows 7 operating system because they let you make the best out of this notebook. Next to the power button there is another button which you will find very useful. People said they want faster access to certain programs like Mozilla FireFox or other internet applications (e-mail or chat programs) and with the help of this button you can get instant online access in less than 20 sec.

The keyboard may be a problem for people that have big hands but we will still think its pretty okay considering the sizes of the notebook. You will get use to the size of the keys in no time. Doe to the lack of space, Sony have to make some sacrifices so the Vaio Lifestyle notebook has no touchpad. Instead you can use a pointing stick which is easy to use and you want miss the touchpad very much. Below the SPACEBAR you will find the left and right mouse buttons. We could not believe our eyes when we saw that the 8 inch display was a 1600x768 resolution. Even if you have some scrolling to do, reading big documents or Web pages is not as difficult as is seems. You also have a "zoom tool" that increases the size of the text without have to change the screen resolution. For such a small notebook you get the right amount of ports and connections. You have 2 USB ports, a dedicated expansion port (for Ethernet and VGA out), 2 Memory Card Readers plus a headphone and microphone jack.



The Sony Vaio Lifestyle notebook is less powerful than it is beautiful. You can imagine that Sony could not put powerful components in such a small space as this would have cause series ventilation problems. This notebook has a 1.33 GHz Intel Atom processor with 2 GB DDR2 RAM. The weak processor helps save up some battery life which is more important than having a powerful processor in such a small notebook. You can still perform your usual Web surfing, document reading and Microsoft Office using but you certainly can't play games or expect too much multimedia performance. The graphics card is an Intel GMA 500 and you have 64GB of disk space. It seems the notebook runs better when using Windows 7. The speakers are not that good but this is no surprise coming from such a small notebook. In fact, we can compare the sound of this notebook with the speaker option of a cell-phone. However, if you want to listen to some music we recommend you buy a good set of headphones or maybe attach some external speakers. Since of components are cramped up in such a small space, this notebook will produce a big amount of heat. It should be okay if you use it for basic tasks like writing an email, surfing the internet or reading and writing a document. If you use the 4-cell battery you should get 2 hours and 39 minutes of battery life but with the 6-cell battery you can use this notebook for 4 hours. If you wish to extend the battery life you can lower the brightness and turn off the wireless feature.



Sony has managed once again to come up with a very special gadget for all technologies fans. Just by the title "Lifestyle PC" you can tell that this notebook is dedicated to the premium segment and it is not a machine that anyone can afford. Its most stiff competition is probably the HP Mini10 Vivienne Tam limited edition notebook which is as expensive as this Sony Vaio. But the HP has such a high price because the exterior has been redesigned by a famous American fashion house and that notebook is more of a fashion statement than any other notebook on the market. Even if the design of these two netbooks toes not exactly compare, the Sony Vaio Lifestyle PC is better rated than any other notebook.