Sony VAIO Lifestyle VGN-P688E/G 8-Inch Laptop – Green
Friday, 01. January 2010. 12:57
- Intel Processor (1.33GHz)
- 2GB of RAM & built-in Bluetooth technology
- 64GB Serial ATA Solid State Drive & Integrated Mobile Broadband
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
- 8″ LCD w/ XBRITE-ECO technology
Price:
Too low to display
Product Description
Your portal to the world, the fashionable VAIO P Series Lifestyle PC delivers your entertainment and computing in a single go-anywhere design. Features like built-in mobile broadband and real-time GPS functionality tell only a partial story. The bottom line is that this chic little 1.4lb (with standard battery) computing sidekick will make a perfect fit with your life, whether it’s for business, pleasure, or both.Amazon.com Product Description
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January 1st, 2010 at 2:38 pm
When I first spotted this product in the Sony store, the only question that went through my mind over and over again was “…why…”.
*BY THE WAY FOR THOSE THAT MISSED IT THE FIRST TIME, AND FOR NEWCOMERS, HERE’S MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE PRODUCT*
First off, this is one amazingly well-engineered product. It’s solidly built, but still light and ultra portable. Despite the small screen, web pages and applications are displayed brilliantly – it was a great idea to make the screen wider than it is tall, like most widescreen desktop monitors. The battery life is impressive too, rated at about 6 hours with standard use. The keyboard is much easier to use than it looks, and the trackball is just as easy to use as a mouse pad.
*DID YOU GET THAT? DO YOU WANT ME TO GO INTO DETAIL ABOUT A BUNCH OF INFORMATION THAT’S ALREADY ON THE PRODUCT’S PAGE?*
Unfortunately, none of these features can withstand how incredibly asinine the price of this product is: A THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!!
When I was a child, I thought a thousand dollars was an impossibly large amount of money. It was hard to imagine what I would do with that much money. Now I know: I can spend it on a netbook that’s actually inferior to every other netbook out there.
To be fair, Intel and Microsoft have teamed up to make our lives miserable by severely restricting the specs of netbooks – in case you haven’t noticed already, almost all netbooks have extremely similar specs. Manufacturers must obey their guidelines, otherwise they are punished by being denied the latest and greatest processors. Hence, this netbook, which deviates from the norm, has a sub-standard processor when compared to the competition which cost hundreds less. You really can’t blame Sony for attempting to create a unique and successful product at the cost of performance which is really at the whim of the computer giants.
Rating: 1 / 5
January 1st, 2010 at 5:38 pm
this laptop has troubles with wifi connection, i change it for a new one and it had the same issue. I contacted Sony Vaio customer service and they couldn’t resolve the problem.
Rating: 1 / 5
January 1st, 2010 at 7:46 pm
I like size but would rather buy a small weight Vaio with a Blu Ray Disk player for my use so I could use DVD’s in the newest format and that would be worth the extra money. So until they can add that kind of entertainment it seems no better than having a I Touch actually better to have something like that than just a very small computer you can’t use for many things yet.
No Thanks I would stick with Sony Vaio computers with lowest weight and be entertained and have it all!! OH Yeah! BS
Rating: 2 / 5
January 1st, 2010 at 10:41 pm
This disaster would be a great opportunity for some LINUX techie–
buy up all the castoff units at 10% of retail; convert to a decent fullfeature LINUX OS;
sell for 50% of retail !!!
Anyone listening? Sony?
Rating: 1 / 5
January 2nd, 2010 at 12:08 am
I like Sony product overall, but this product was not too impress at all. I purhcased this 2 week ago, with 2 extra battery, travel bag, external VGA/Cat-5 network adapter (since I am traveling a lots and need a small notebook to do my work while traveling). Upon receive, it looks very cool, small and liteweight, but after use it, I am kind of disappoint, it is SLOW ( may be I get used to my 14.1 2.0G CPU, vs of this Atom slow CUP, for sure is slow). I know I can not return it, so I am planning to sell on eBay with discount, it can not really do my works at all (my wife is upset with me to only useit for few days and few hundred off to sell on ebay). I guess the Windows Vista Home and netbook CPU(Atom) is the main reason make it slow, most netbook come with XP (take less memory). [...]
Also, the display text is too small to read(but it display all content within this high res. small LCD, make sense), I have to set text font to 150%, but compare to my regular notebook 14.1 notebook still small. I would say, overall, this notebook can funcion as checking email and browse internet and looks cool, if you need a very small notebook and not too worry about speed and storage space for your daily simple works, this is good one.
by the way, key board size and battery life is pretty good, I like it.
jeff
Rating: 2 / 5