Sony Vaio P Series Notebook Review

The world's lightest notebook is here and its packed with an 8 inch screen, 2 gigs of RAM, 128 gigs of solid state memory, GPS and wi-fi, but will the presence of Vista and a $900 price tag pull down what could be a positive rating?

What You Need To Know

• Only 0.8 inches thick
• 9 and a half by 4 and a half and weighs 1.4 pounds
• Might even fit in a pants or jacket pocket
• Comes in green, white, red and black shimmer
• The keyboard is widely spaced and big enough to type on. The rectangular shape of the notebook was an excellent choice by Sony
• The pointing stick (nubbin) is similar to the old IBM's and actually isn't that bad for mousing. It's tough to move around accurately, though
• The mouse clicks are thin and at the very bottom of the device, and surprisingly not hard to use
• The 8 inch display also looks great because of the l-e-d backlight
• Overall, we weren't too bothered by how small it was
• It's got 2 gigs of ram, but the Intel Atom processor is a little less powerful than most at 1.33 GigaHertz
• Booting up takes too long
• Browsing the web is too slow
• Batching videos is too choppy
• Overall, this thing is painfully slow. It needs Windows XP
• If you need style and have lots of extra cash, this is the perfect choice
• Everyone else should hold off

Price

• $900

Overall Rating

• 3 Seals of Approval out of 5 (how do we rate gadgets?)
• Design: 4.5
• Quality: 4
• Features: 1.5
• Price: 2