Sony Vaio UX180P shipping to US

Although the SonyStyle site still lists it under pre-order, the Vaio UX180P non-UMPC is apparently already en route to ecstatic US customers, as at least two of our readers have received shipping confirmations from Sony via email. The Core Solo-powered machines are scheduled to arrive on the sixth of next month, which jibes with Sony's promise of a July release, but we're still a bit surprised that they're getting them out this early -- as you know, we've been burned by Sony a few times before.

[Thanks, Lee and Leland B]

[PC Guy @ Jun 29th 2006 2:58PM]

I would love to have one of these but, to be honest, I think I'm too old. I switched my Toshiba e800 into true VGA mode just to confirm my suspicions and after a few minutes of using it (that's 640x480 on a 4 inch screen) my eyes cried 'enough!' I can't image what 1024 x 600 is like on a 4.5 inch screen. Unfortunately there's no way I'll ever get to see one in the flesh, so maybe the Microsoft UMPC is the way to go.

[John Pastor @ Jun 29th 2006 3:04PM]

I got one of these in for a review from the folks at Dynamism. It's a pretty cool device.

[Ryukun @ Jun 29th 2006 3:11PM]

Guess I'll wait for the US release, I really like the UX90, it's sexy!
I'd go for a UMPC if they weren't so HUGE!

[Jeff @ Jun 29th 2006 4:27PM]

I would buy one if it was under $1000... I could never afford to get one of these for $1800. If they were able to reduce the price of these to a 1000 or less they would sell fast.

[Shmee150 @ Jun 29th 2006 4:44PM]

I'll be getting one, just going to the US to pick it up instead of importing because it's cheaper! The dynamism cost to import to the UK after VAT and shipping is about $1000 than the shop price, and for that I can go to the US and have a holiday as well!

ShMeE

[Nukes and Candy @ Jun 29th 2006 4:57PM]

The gadget is quite the head turner, but I hate Sony's patented overpricing for their products.

I think the public isn't ready for the whole Porta PC shenanigan.

Alexander Wunderlich
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[Richard @ Jun 29th 2006 9:18PM]

although I haven't been able to trace fedex tracking number, sonystyle sent me an email stating that the ux180p has been shipped on 6/28 - early????

[bigshynepo @ Jun 29th 2006 10:38PM]

Alexander said:
"The gadget is quite the head turner, but I hate Sony's patented overpricing for their products."

Sony is notorious for this but for the amount of things packed into this device (umm, optional 16GB flash? That's nuts!), I feel this thing is at a perfect price point. Any competitor is much more for much less.

"I think the public isn't ready for the whole Porta PC shenanigan."

I agree, but the rich need their toys i guess.

[Do You Wanna Dance @ Jun 30th 2006 12:02AM]

Just got a job at the SonyStyle store. The employee discount on this bad boy is good enough to pick up on day one. ;)

[That's mine! @ Jun 30th 2006 4:40AM]

What's going on here? The first post is EXACTLY, WORD FOR WORD, a post I sent in for a previous article about the Sony. Me smells something fishy.
Anyway I still stand by what I said. I've just bought myself a UMPC and the screen size is excellent. Maybe a bit higher resolution would be good.

[Richard @ Jun 30th 2006 2:11PM]

well it's true - received ux180p at 10:00 am this morning - now to read the manual

[dave @ Jul 1st 2006 8:59AM]

i'm a sony fanboy, and i use my PSP and clie UX daily and give anyone who talks about AOD a dirty look, but this device would be more attractive with Ev-DO from sprint(especially for sprint fanboys and girls), or maybe even no wireless WAN because the japanese version without that fugly antenna is nicer, and (gasp!) AMD under the hood. this device would be perfect for a turion, and if it was AMD-Powered, it would be my only portable computer i'd ever need.


wow, i just made three blatant displays of fanboyism towards AMD, sony and CDMA.

[Dave Ferguson @ Jul 4th 2006 1:05AM]

I received the UX180p today. First reaction: a lot of power in a very small device. The screen resolution is amazing, but the text on the screen is very, very small. I find I'm using the zoom constantly...

[MAMONT @ Oct 18th 2006 8:47AM]

hi all my friend have a vaio UX180p and it has a hiden partition on it where was the recovery image of factory installed OS... so my friend became such lamer that he formated both of partitions with Windows vista... so now i can't install windows XP ether i cant live it with vista because drivers is only for vista... i can't even boot from bootCD plese someone help does anyone know how 2 format it back 4 WINXP
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