Best Buy lets out the WiDi-enabled Sony Vaio S a week early

Looks like those early-adopted Push2TV adapter won’t be so lonely after all. We received a handful of tips that certain Best Buys were selling their Intel Wireless Display-compatible “Blue Label 2.0″ laptops a bit early — nowhere near us, unfortunately — and now comes pictorial proof from the forums of Notebook Review. This 13.3-inch Sony Vaio S was allegedly caught wearing a $1,049.99 sticker and housing a 2.26MHz Core i5 with integrated graphics — no NVIDIA GPU here, and we gotta figure that’s hurting the displayed Windows Experience Rating. The official launch of the Best Buy-customized Vaio S is next week, along with a number of other WiDi-enabled laptops.

Best Buy lets out the WiDi-enabled Sony Vaio S a week early originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony introduces limited edition VAIO Nebula FW laptop

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Sony introduces limited edition VAIO Nebula FW laptop originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony VAIO X specs and pricing leak out — 2.0GHz Atom, $1,499?

We’re expecting the official launch of Sony’s hot little VAIO X ultraportable later today, but Boy Genius Report claims to have some leaked specs and pricing to think over while we wait — and if they’re accurate, you’ll be staring down the wrong end of a $1,499 price tag when all is said and done. Yeah, it’s not unexpected, but still, ouch. For your trouble, you’ll be getting what Sony’s calling the “world’s lightest notebook,” weighing in a just 1.5 pounds of carbon-fiber with an 11.6-inch LED display, SSD, multitouch trackpad, and a 3.5-hour standard battery life that can be pushed to 14 hours using a “super-extended” battery. Okay, not bad, but what’s running this show? Well, we’ve got some potentially bad news to report — we’ve been told that the VAIO X will have a 2.0GHz Atom Z550 inside, just like the prototypes. Yep, that’s another $1,499 Sony Atom laptop — we’ll wait for the official announcement to confirm before we start wringing our hands, but we’re open to your lamentations in comments.

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Sony VAIO X specs and pricing leak out — 2.0GHz Atom, $1,499? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony’s VAIO W netbook reviewed: personable and pricey, and that’s pretty much it

After Sony’s unorthodox VAIO P, did you really expect the outfit’s first “real netbook” to burn the house down? With Microsoft’s inane hardware restrictions still firmly in place on Windows XP-based netbooks, there’s only so much differentiating Sony can do, and evidently those subtle tweaks didn’t exactly justify the higher-than-average $499 price tag. Computer Shopper managed to give the unit a spin a few weeks prior to its US release, and while it definitely appreciated the 1,366 x 768 resolution display, the cramped keyboard, painfully lackluster 3-cell battery and commonplace performance didn’t exactly elicit huge grins across the review room. Naturally, the design here is pretty notable, but with ASUS’ Eee Seashell line already lookin’ pretty decent for a lot less cheddar, we’d agree that Sony’s going to have to do better than put a pretty face on a vanilla set of innards to get our next five Benjamins.

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Sony’s VAIO W netbook reviewed: personable and pricey, and that’s pretty much it originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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