Comments on: First look: Sony’s VAIO netbook, the Mini W Series

By: Tim Danton

Tim Danton — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:18:48 +0000

@Geoff It’s a glossy display – we’ve now done the full review, which you can read here:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/261835/sony-vaio-mini-w-series.html

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:21:34 +0000

can you confirm if this has a matte or glossy display?

By: Ralph Hardwick

Ralph Hardwick — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:12:44 +0000

I appreciate that the scrabble keyboard is smaller than normal but I disagree that the type of keyboard slows down touch typists. I have a scrabble keyboard on my Vaio FW laptop and while it took a few hours to get used to it (as it does with any new keyboard) I am just as fast at touch typing on it now as with any other keyboard. It was actually one of the reasons I chose the laptop.

By: Tim Danton

Tim Danton — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:18:44 +0000

@simbr – the keyboard is smaller than most Sony tile-style keyboards, and that brings some issues. We’ve just received our full review sample so I’ll be playing with it over the weekend, and (providing all our tests complete in time) we’ll have a proper review up early next week.

By: simbr

simbr — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:32:46 +0000

@Ian
The point is that Sony are familiar with squeezing the most life out of a battery and with wireless broadband modules, and since there are also Netbooks with double the battery life (NC10) and with build-in HSDPA (multiple) there’s no excuse – unless they were trying not to cannibalise sales of their own more expensive models.
Is the keyboard on this worse than the normal Sony scrabble keyboard? Those normally get more favourable comments in PCPro from what I recall and even Engadget has commented on it.

By: Tim Danton

Tim Danton — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:15:28 +0000

@ R.P.Infinity – probably just my odd photography. It’s very much standard netbook size.

By: R.P.Infinity

R.P.Infinity — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:07:59 +0000

Is it just me, or does it LOOK huge? I know it’s a 10 incher, but for some reason – to me – it looks more like a 12 inch laptop. Odd.

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By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:31:45 +0000

@simbr

You’ve completely missed the point. You’re comparing a tue ultra-portable laptop with a netbook, no different to comparing Apples and Oranges and saying that as the Orange isn’t a Granny Smith, it’s not good enough!

This will probably sell in the region of £400. The TZ sells for over £1,000. And the TZ is a discontunied model, replaced by the TT.

The TT has an 11.1″ screen but the same resolution. Battery life is the major sticking point for the W series but I’d quite happily take being able to buy 2 W series and have £200 left over.

By: simbr

simbr — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:08:24 +0000

Have they intentionally crippled this? The TZ ultraportables have better battery life despite being smaller (I think?) and having a better processor. WWAN also appearse to be lacking here.