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that's what we're looking at today into the sub note netbook market with their Sony Vaio PC Riis what's interesting is that we've seen netbooks on the market from a bunch of different factures you have Asus Acer being the most popular as well as units from from companies such as gigabyte and Dell already out there so the fact that Sony has taken so long to actually get a product out the market is quite surprising when we're looking at the price points it sort of depends on the hardware that you get with the unit it ranges from about 900 USD with a 60 gigabyte hard drive all the way up to over $1500 if you opt for the 128 gig SSD model as we open up the unit to check out the accessories we have the notebook we also have the warranty and registration cards you have the power adapter the battery we also have this little device which we'll show you later the volley ope has an incredibly compact design we're using our newly standardized highlighter measurement system here unit is nine point seven five inches wide four point seven inches long and listed an inch at point seven eight inches thick and thinking now the external ports you'll see on the front that we have the wireless on/off feature as well as an SD card slot and Sony's memory stick Pro and then off to the right we have the power slider as well as the battery and hard drive indicator lights jumping to the right you'll see a single USB port as well as a specialized port for Sony's display and LAN adapter and then over to the left we have the DC power in as well as another USB port and the audio out as we open it up you can really see how stylish the Sony is what we have at the top is an 8 inch LCD screen with Sony's X bright eco technology the screen resolution runs at 1600 by 768 which for a device this small is actually really in-depth sony has an 82 key qwerty keyboard on the unit which is absolutely great to type on because of the wider form factor there's a lot more space to spread the keys out and actually make them bigger so they're about the size of a regular notebook in the center instead of using the typical touchpad what we have is a for lack of a better term Mouse nub as well as on the bottom we have the left click the right click and the center click and then off to the side we have a couple of special device buttons which we'll show you later so because we knew we had the hard drive version we weren't expecting anything really revolutionary in terms of boot up time for the unit which is actually good because after about a minute and a half of waiting we were friendly greeted by a Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit to the internal specs we have invented a dam 1.3 3 gigahertz processor as well as a 60 gigabyte hard drive now there is a couple other options there's a 64 gig SSD and 128 gig SSD available at various price ranges as well there is also 2 gigs of ddr2 memory this is not expandable above the two gigs unfortunately the device has a few different wireless networking features it has the B G and N wireless LAN adapter as well as the typical Bluetooth and it also has what's described as integrated mobile broadband which is basically 3G in the laptop and I believe this is primarily used for the GPS features of the sony vaio so in order to forms of the unit will open up the task manager and sort of take a look at some different tasks running around in Windows you so overall performance in Windows wasn't too bad the regular tasks you know such as video playing word processing internet browsing all that sort of thing you passed with flying colors but if you want to do anything high-end you definitely want to be looking at more of a notebook or even the desktop then one of the coolest little features about this laptop is you have what's called instant mode which sort of it bypasses the operating system and will give you this sort of GUI interface pre OS so you don't have to worry about booting up and it's incredibly quick scroll through here you can start windows power off you can move over and you really do a whole bunch of things you have network settings display language sounds system settings just whole bunch of settings you can view your pictures you can view music you can go and you can even view videos as well you have basic internet functions such as you can browse use Skype and instant message and so really that's about it for the sony vaio we have an incredibly small little device it's lightweight its compact it has a unique design it looks really good the one downside is the sort of hefty $900 price tag so there we have it the sony vaio p unboxed