Sony Vaio P Super Don't-Call-It-a-Netbook Hands On

Learning the netbook keyboard?it rock.The screen ?beautiful agony.The trackball is just the determining the right amount of knitty gritty,so your finger stick to it and does'nt slide off on the keyboard sniffers.

The instant-on OS?Classy.The black keys are small,but just the perfect check amount of small-you'll only have a problem if you have the fingers the size of carnival fried dough recipe.It took me about 15-30 seconds of mistyping to adjust types just about perfectly,though your hands won't feel as loose as they as they are on a full frontal size keyboard with trackball and keypad by means.They are really trent from punchy,though swallow,too.Overall,good.The trackball is little sensitive overall,but adjustable too.What i do hate are the mouse buttons.They are too small and not distinguished enough,so easy to miss.Oh and it's a smudge magnet.
The small form factor looks weird insertions in the press shot,but in people,it works incredibles well.It's very clearly Porsche compared to Chevy esque standard the notebook.In fact, Sony guys insist its not a netbook,which is true.It's fall begins officially throw-it-in-your-bag-and-forget-it-sized, which netbooks are not.

I like the instant-on operating system.It's essentially sony vaio p ripped apart.Sony that gives you access to submit photos,internet and movies,which like other instant-on OSes,but the P's seems exceptionally classy.
Every sku has the same same 1.33Ghz Atom inside (the Z series not the pokier N)—not incredibly speedy, and 2GB of RAM, which lets them all run Vista okay. Screen is, duh, gorgeous thanks to that incredible pixel density. The built-in 3G is Verizon only, and they wouldn't comment on a GSM version. Oh, and that $900 pricepoint? That's for Vista Home Basic—you've gotta drop a grand to get real Vista. Otherwise, the 4 different SKUs vary based mostly on storage—60GB starting up to a 128GB SSD in the $1500 model.
You'd almost think you could work on it, but we're not so convinced yet—that'll take some much more extensive hands on time, a couple days at least. At the very least, you'd have to widen and shrink your workflow. But we're definitely curious to find out. Overall, it's certainly an interesting machine—not a netbook, UMPC or laptop, but something in between all of those. What exactly that is, we'll have to figure out in the longer haul.