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I was waiting for something like this to happen, and it looks like Sony are the front of queue as always…. They  have extended the Vaio UX ultra-mobile PC line by introducing a model that drops the hard drive in favour of a Flash-based storage unit. There’s a catch, the machine’s storage capacity is down to 16GB from the 30GB of the HDD-based original.

The Flash versions’ other specifications match those of the UXs Sony launched in May this year: 512MB of 400MHz DDR SDRAM; a choice of 1.2GHz Core Solo U1400, 1.06GHz Core Solo U1300 or 1.06GHz Celeron M 423 processor; 802.11a/b/g/ Wi-Fi; Bluetooth 2.0; 4.5in, 1,204 x 600 display; and Intel 945GMS integrated chipset. Again, the UMPC is available in Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Pro versions.

The Flash-based UX models are slightly lighter: 492g to the HDD models’ 520g. Sony preferred to highlight the new machines’ faster response time: Microsoft Outlook loads in 1.5s off the Flash drive, compare to 9s from the 30GB HDD.

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