Sony Vaio W Netbook available for preorder

Darius Chang | Jul 29, 2009

The first honest-to-goodness Netbook from the Japanese maker is finally available, albeit for preorder at this time. Priced at S$899 (US$648.07), this puts the Sony Vaio W on the upper end of the price scale for 10.1-inch minilaptops.

Though the Atom-based hardware and Windows XP Home operating system are run-of-the-mill, its high-resolution 1,366 x 768-pixel display and light 1.16kg heft makes it stand out from the crowd of "me-too" Netbooks. It also has two memory card slots--one for the Memory Stick format and the other for SDHC/MMC media.

Currently, only consumers in Singapore are able to preorder this device before its official launch on August 12, so click on this link and be one of the first to buy this machine. The other Asia-Pacific countries will have to wait for the Netbook to hit retail shelves in mid-August before buying.

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