Sony heads into la-la land with the latest Vaio P model, which adds a 1.6GHz Atom CPU and 128GB SSD to bump the price to $1,499.99. Engadget points out that all still come with Vista, whose bloat does serious damage to the P’s usefulness. So that’s a $1,500 ticket to a day of tinkering just to get a productive machine. [Engadget]
Seriously, I love my $800 Vaio P with Windows XP, but this? You can get a MacBook Air for a grand and a half.
But a MacBook Air won’t fit in your back pocket.
Still, for $1500, it should have a real Core2Duo (like the miniature one in the Air) and not just an Atom processor.
A Vaio P fits inside a back pocket the way a foot fits inside an arse: perfectly possible, but uncomfortable, unreasonable, and liable to result in injury.
I would gladly pay an extra $25 for a designer handstrap that would keep this thing from flipping out of my palm when I cross the room. These Netbooks are NOT tower cases and they will crack when dropped.
Of course if you spend 1500$ on a netbook, you ARE a big arse. So it will fit into your back pocket.