This review is all about the newly launched Sony Vaio W Netbook. Sony finally plunged also into the netbook market. Japanese electronics giant has just launched Sony Vaio W series, which is a line of netbook 10-inch sizes. As quoted from CNet site, Sony Netbook is reinforced with Intel Atom N280 processor, 1 GB RAM, Windows XP, and 160 GB hard disk, which is the average specification for a netbook.

What makes this netbook a bit different from other netbooks, it has a 1366×768 resolution screen, WiFi 802.11n connection, and of course, the price is more ‘premium’ than the netbook class.

This Netbook is 3.3 cm thick and weighing 1.1 kilograms and also provided with Memory Stick card slot, Bluetooth connectivity, and the finishing is equal to other Sony notebooks, which are usually handed keyboard and touchpad quality.

With Sony proprietary software, this netbook can also be connected with devices certified Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), such as a Sony HDTV, PlayStation 3, or PSP portable game console. In the United States, this netbook price is USD 500.

This is a breakthrough step from Sony, which has been impressed very proud to come down to the netbook market. Previously, Sony had to have a computer Atom, namely Sony Vaio VGN P588e. But Sony did not want categorizes as a netbook, but called him a ‘Lifestyle PC’ and sell it at around USD 1000.

Netbook is experiencing a strong growth. Research firm Gartner estimates, netbook sales last year reached 5.3 units. In fact, overall computer sales are about 14 million units. No wonder if then Sony finally glanced at this segment.

This Lenovo notebook is getting rave reviews for the ThinkPad W700ds has 2 LCD screen! Two LCD in 1 notebook! It looks like that the ThinkPad W700ds is the first notebook with two LCD screens.

Imagine you can work on Microsoft office tasks while watching the sexy Beyonce video clip on two different screens. The main LCD is a relief for gamer’s mania, 17-inch with a resolution of 1920×1200 pixels. The second screen is 10.6-inch LCD and has a resolution of 768×1280 pixels. This unique second screen can be rotated to 30 degrees to the front.

This Lenovo notebook is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9300 2.26GHz and DDR3 memory up to 8GB, come equipped with a NVIDIA Quadro GPU with 128 cores. To place the data storage capacity of 320GB, a hard disk is planted (2x 160GB).
Like most other notebooks, the ThinkPad W700ds also presents features that support multimedia, security, and the Internet. Call it 1.3 MP web camera, fingerprint reader, WiFi, Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire, and various other features.

They say this W700ds ThinkPad will be offered at the price of about USD 3,600 in January 2009. If you want to buy a new Notebook next year then the ThinkPad W700ds is the best one to buy.

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