The mad race is on, the smallest, the fastest, the cutest and now we have the lightest in weight off course the Sony Vaio X series of laptops which weighs a mere 1.6 pounds. The laptop comes with pre-installed with Windows 7 Premium, including some goodies like the Works SE 9.0, AOL, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 (wait a minute what happened to the ads driven MS office we were promised? old is gold hmm!) and Norton Internet Security. These by the way are trial versions.

The screen size is a respectable 11.1 inches and there is cam and mic for the much needed face to face video conferencing. Oh and by the way the screen is scratch resistant, the body made of Caron fiber and at full charge the battery lasts for around 3.5 hours. An additional battery can be thrown in at the cost of increased weight off course which pushes the running time to 14.5 hours (if you can sit and work that long!). This additional battery also works as the tilt rest for the machine, ingenious indeed.

The innards comprise of an Intel Atom Z550 processor clocking at 2 GHz, a solid state drive up to 128 GB, 2 GB SD RAM, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi (802.11 b/g/n), Stereo Bluetooth and Intel High Definition audio. The 11” screen size is a new entry as we have laptops mostly in the 12” categories and NetBooks in 10”. The price a mere $1300. Who said shedding weight was easy or even cheap?

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