Sony 'P-series' netbook hands-on

By Ty Pendlebury on 09 January 2009

Sony has finally taken the wraps off its first netbook at this year's CES show at Las Vegas, and we had a brief hands-on with it. Is it a stylish Eee PC killer or an overpriced, under-performing PDA?

Ty Pendlebury is attending CES 2009 as a guest of LG.

One of the first things that struck us when using the P-series is that the SSD model uses Vista Home Premium, which is a bold move for a 1.3GHz Atom machine. At least it has a goodly amount of RAM — 2GB — enabling it to run Microsoft's resource hog with some semblance of urgency. In our brief use we didn't notice any slowdowns, and the operating system loaded in a reasonable time.

(Credit: Ty Pendlebury/CNET Australia)

Topics: netbook, sony, SSD, p series, lifestyle, pc, vaio, ces2009, pendlebury, ssd

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Comments (5)

  • Tasman-Traveller commented on 26/02/2009 08:56 Report abuse

    Had a play in a shop..
    Beautiful stunning hardware - sleek, elegant, small, I want one now!
    BUT.. Vista?? NO THANKS.
    Stay well away until it's pre-loaded with Windows 7

  • chokeahuntus commented on 21/02/2009 23:03 Report abuse

    to all you people who are considering this netbook, DON'T!! it is an over preforming overpriced pda. i have one of these and an eeepc901 and i can tell you that the difference is black and white. the eee901 is as portable as it needs to be but desn't at all compromise it's proformance. this steamer does. it offers not much and is marketed as something capable of doing the exact things pdas are. spend your money on a much more portable pda instead if this is the stuff you want to do with it. or buy an eeepc

  • Karl commented on 27/01/2009 12:22 Report abuse

    I'm LOOKING at netbooks BECAUSE they are available without f..n invasive autonomus big-brother VISTA that so many hate 2-use. A netbook or Apple?
    I like familiar XP, even 2000 or rather 98 then VISTA.

  • adam commented on 15/01/2009 18:13 Report abuse

    i still dont agree with netbooks being loaded with vista, netbooks i reckon will become the next thing to have over the iphone or ipod and have a vista on it to hamper those sales as people hate it enough on their desktop computers, they not gonna have it on a smaller one.

  • hideous commented on 15/01/2009 10:12 Report abuse

    Sydney – 9 January, 2009 – Sony Australia today announced the release of a brand new form 8-inch notebook – the new VAIO P "Pocket style PC". Pocket-size and small enough to grip with one hand, the VAIO P series combines premium design and wireless network functionality for mobility, style and usability."

    Read the full transcript at
    http://www.sony.com.au/articles/article.jsp?articleId=4210&categoryId=21613&ref=rssfeed

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