The Small Sony Vaio Notebook

Usually an ultra portable notebook should be not much bigger than a handheld PDA, be easy to type on and have much of the functionality of a full-size notebook. In order to keep the size small these ultra portables make so many compromises that they end up being devices that do not work as well as they look. However sony vaio notebook comes as a very small, fully functional notebook with a great screen, fully useable keyboard and even an integrated DVD burner. This sony vaio notebook measures just 20.5 x 2.5 x 27.2cm and weighs a mere 1.38 kg, including the battery and DVD drive.

Inside the sony vaio notebook sits a 1.2GHz Pentium M ULV CPU backed by Intel's i855GME chipset and 512MB of DDR333 memory. The integrated graphics chip uses 8MB of the system memory, but can be configured to use up to 64MB.

The 7200mAh Li-Ion battery of the sony vaio notebook has about six hours of life.

The sony vaio notebook has a small but usable keyboard for the Vaio VGN-T2XP/S, and although people with larger fingers may have a problem, the keys are much easier to use than those of other notebooks. Similarly, the touch-pad has been comfortably positioned well away from the spacebar to prevent accidental cursor movements.

The 10.6-inch wide-screen display of the sony vaio notebook has Xblack coating, making watching DVD movies on the move a pleasure, and the resolution of 1280 by 768 pixels makes the text very legible.

For storage there is a 60GB hard disk, while the dual format DVD writer makes backing up your data quite easy. You also get Type II PC card and Memory Stick slots. To connect with the outside world, the sony vaio notebook has a built-in modem, Ethernet, wireless capability and integrated Bluetooth. There are two USB 2.0 ports, a four-pin Firewire port, VGA port and two audio ports.

The sony vaio notebook software package consists of Windows XP Professional and the usual Sony utilities like DVGate, PictureGear Studio and SonicStage, Microsoft Works 8, Adobe Premier Standard, Photoshop Elements 2.0, Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition and Acrobat Elements, WinDVD and Symantec Internet Security 2005. The sony vaio notebook has a year's warranty.

Skeptics might scoff at the small size vis--vis its performance, but the sony vaio notebook has all the ingredients to provide a power packed performance and optimum satisfaction to its users.