Sony Vaio X is world's lightest notebook

Dell was proud to tease us with those pics of its super-thin Adamo XPS notebook last month when the numerical oddity 9-9-09 hit. Today Sony officially unveiled its own super thin notebook computer called the Vaio X. Sony claims that the Vaio X is the world's lightest notebook.

How light you ask? According to Sony the little notebook weighs a mere 725g with the standard battery installed. That is about half what the typical netbook weighs today. In addition to being lightweight the notebook is also very thin at about a half inch thick. The screen is an 11.1-inch unit with a 16:9 aspect ratio.

Despite the thin and light form factor, Sony has still seen fit to shoehorn a VGA port in there, which takes up the entire thickness of the bottom part of the notebook.



The LCD is also LED backlit and promises 100% color saturation and improved brightness. The standard battery promises battery life of 3.5 hours, which considering how thin and lightweight the Vaio X is, the run time is actually pretty good. That is of course assuming Sony isn’t padding that battery life estimate.

Features of the machine include 3G mobile broadband built-in, 802.11n Wi-Fi, GPS connectivity, and SSD storage. The machine will run Windows 7 and perhaps the most surprising feature of all is the price. Sony says that the little machine will start at $US1,300, which is pretty cheap for a Sony product. The CPU inside the thin machine is an Intel 2GHz of some sort.