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hi I'm Josh Goldman with CNET and this is a first look at sony's new super portable 13 inch laptop the vio pro 13 it is as you can see very thin and it weighs only two point three four pounds so definitely no problems tossing this in a bag for your daily commute and its carbon fiber construction gives it some extra durability around the sides you get a couple USB 3 ports an HDMI port mic and headphone jack and SD card slot but that's it plus Sony built in an extra USB port into the laptops power adapter for charging a mobile device lifting the lid reveals the 1080p IPS touchscreen the full backlit keyboard and large clip pad this pro 13 that we're currently testing is running on a 4th gen Intel Core i7 processor eight gigs of memory integrated Intel HD graphics and a 512 gig PCI Express solid-state drive a combination that sells for about twenty two hundred twenty dollars however for about twelve hundred and fifty dollars it can be scaled back to a Core i5 processor four gigs of RAM and a hundred and twenty eight gig SSD which is still expensive but definitely easier to swallow if you're just looking for something super thin and light with long battery life and the battery life is long in our initial testing this laptop got six and a half hours of video playback sony estimates battery life at seven hours and honestly with some power management I'm pretty sure you can hit that mark and if you need more than that sony sells an add-on sheep battery that attaches seamlessly to the bottom that should double that time so again if you want a light laptop for your daily commute or travel this seems worth checking out but we'll know for sure when we're done testing i'm josh coleman and that's a look at the sony vaio pro third