Comments on: First look: Sony VAIO X-Series

By: Alex Moore

Alex Moore — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:35:04 +0000

Does the dandruff on the keyboard come as standard?

By: Tim Danton

Tim Danton — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:28:14 +0000

@Mark I don’t think it will be an Atom – or let me rephrase that, I hope it won’t be. Much more likely to be a top-of-the-range dual-core ULV model that hasn’t yet been announced. It will need to have incredibly low power demands to fit in that chassis though!

By: Mark Boyer

Mark Boyer — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:11:31 +0000

Let’s hope it’s not an Atom processor as rumoured – because it’s going to be severely overpriced if it is.

By: Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:52:37 +0000

[FX: Fred Dibnah]

chuffin’ eck – I paid less than that for two and a half ton of Mercedes, lad!

Any view on battery life? How many Vaios per EEE in terms of weight comparison? I have someone who can smash IBM Z-series Thinkpads in two months, so one of these would be ideal for him (errr….)

By: Tim Danton

Tim Danton — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:24:23 +0000

@David I’d say the palmrest is of a decent size – could be larger, but from my brief play I didn’t have any frustrations.

I’m not sure when we’ll get a sample to test properly – hopefully next week, but maybe not – but if so I’ll put this to the test.

@Paul And I’ll also confirm which SSD is being used!

By: David

David — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:21:01 +0000

For an 11.1″ laptop, the palmrest looks disproportionately large compared to the keyboard – are the keys very small?

By: Paul Ockenden

Paul Ockenden — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:18:28 +0000

If Sony are true to form they’ll be using Samsung SSDs in this model, like they’ve done previously in other models. Which is a real shame because the Samsung drives are really slow compared to the rival Intel SSDs. Some Vaio owners claim to have swapped their Samsung drives for Intel and noticed that the boot time of the machine is roughly halved.