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Last updated: Thursday, January 8, 2009

Sony is attempting to reinvent the mini-notebook with the introduction of a sleek and stylish machine that is small enough to easily slip into a jacket pocket or purse. Weighing just 1.4 lbs, the new VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC is roughly the size of a business envelope and as thin as a typical cell phone. Though 10-inch displays are quickly becoming the norm on many of today’s mini-notebook PCs, the ultrawide screen on Sony’s new device measures just eight inches diagonally. However, the screen delivers a resolution of 1600×768 pixels and images are displayed in brilliant detail with Sony’s Xbrite-Eco LCD technology. The screen is big enough to view Web pages with no side-to-side scrolling required. Targeting Women The device’s QWERTY keyboard is even smaller than the units typically installed on mini-notebooks, which are about 92 percent of standard laptop size. To make up the difference, Sony has expressly tailored the spacing between keys to help reduce typing mistakes. Sony says its revamped keyboard is perfect for long fingernails, which is a good indication that the company is aiming the device at women in particular. “Designed for the fashionista in all of us, it’s the ideal companion,” said Sony Electronics Senior Vice President Mike Abary. To further enhance the machine’s trend-setting appeal, it will ship in an array of colors, including garnet red, emerald green, and onyx black. Matching accessories are also available, including a color-coordinated mouse. To maintain the device’s svelte profile, Sony has replaced the standard notebook touchpad with a pointer stick. The Bluetooth-enabled mouse should help reduce the tedium of solely using the pointer stick. Under The Hood The VAIO Lifestyle PC sports a 1.33-GHz Intel Atom processor with 512KB L2 cache; 2GB of 533-MHz DDR2 SDRAM; an Intel graphics media accelerator; a graphics memory capacity of 760MB;…

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Pocket-Size Sony VAIO PC Targets Women and Fashion

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