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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 device designed to be low cost like a netbook, and since buying a Vaio P often required taking a second mortgage, it therefore couldn’t be a netbook…but rather a “Lifestyle PC”. Riigghhhtttt. As I recall they used a similar strategy with the long lamented Clie line, saying they weren’t ACTUALLY PDAs. How’d that work out for them again?

*cough*self-hatingnetbook*cough*

Well, Sony has finally surrendered to common sense, and is releasing a thingie netbook in August that they COME CLOSE TO ADMITTING ADMIT is actually a netbook, the Vaio W. After all the fancy bells and whistles on the P, including the unusual form factor, the massive 1600×768 resolution on an 8 inch screen and the large capacity SSD options, I am shocked the W is so…ordinary. In look and specs the Vaio W appears to be like a product Acer or Asus would have released three months ago. It does have a slightly higher resolution then most netbooks at 1366×768 and of course as this is Sony a higher price then is typical, tipped to be retailing for 500 bucks in the US which is about a c-note dearer then most high end netbooks…but then that is a bargain at half the price of the lowest end Vaio P. Are they still selling those?

SonyStyle indeed.

ERRATA: I stand corrected. Apparently Sony is STILL not uttering Netbook, rather saying that the W is an “Internet Book”. Like what, a Kindle with a normal frickin’ keyboard???!!!

Who knew that de nile was actually a river in Japan?

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).