Sony drops Signature Edition of VAIO W netbook

Sony has a reputation for offering some of the most pricy computers on the market and the latest offering called the VAIO Signature Collection W Series lives up to that reputation. The little netbook is white with some silver snowflakes painted on the lid. The netbook is certainly not as sexy as thin tuber thin VAIO X we talked about before. The little machine looks very festive. The netbook retails for $539 ($US499) before you figure in the cost of greasing the Aussie wheels of retail carnage.



For that much loot, what you get is a painted up netbook with a 10.1-inch LED backlit LCD and a resolution of 1366 x 768. The machine runs Windows 7 Starter edition and has a 250GB HDD. That is a goodly amount of storage considering most netbooks still have 160GB. The battery used is a 6-cell unit good for up to 7 hours.

The little rig measures 267.7mm W x 51mm H x 179mm D and weighs about 1.34kg. Other features include Bluetooth, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, and an Ethernet port. The brain of the little machine is an Atom N280 processor at 1.66GHz and graphics are via Intel GMA 950. Sony also builds in a Motion Eye camera and mic with face tracking technology. The keyboard has 82 keys with a 1.2mm stroke and a 16.5mm pitch.