Keepin' it real fake, part CLXXXVI: the Vaino not-so-ultraportable

You know, it was just another busy Wednesday here in the Engadget compound until this guy came across our screens and greatly brightened our day. Bearing the appellation that the Vaio P's highly fashionable media campaign has thus far only hinted at, the "Vaino" is a 10.2-inch, 1.6GHz Atom-powered ultraportable also-ran that, sadly, will not be making it to these shores any time soon.

[Via Slash Gear]

Gallery: the Vaino not-so-ultraportable

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[kjb434 @ Mar 4th 2009 4:36PM]

Sony computer for a fraction of the price! No Sony Tax!

HAHA

[Aguiluz @ Mar 4th 2009 4:42PM]

Not only that: It comes with Windows OSX Beta! (Picture 4)

[Seightan @ Mar 4th 2009 4:57PM]

man they made this in vain-o

[Flashpoint @ Mar 4th 2009 5:07PM]

forget the laptop...when can I buy WIN OS-X BETA?

[MaxSMoke @ Mar 4th 2009 8:14PM]

It's not nearly as thin, but it's got all the right ports, and I think I spy a DVD Drive. Color me impressed! Now, where's that $500 or less pricetag?

[adg1034 @ Mar 4th 2009 4:38PM]

Honestly, overlooking the fact that it's a complete knockoff (Vaino is going right up there with Sorny and Magnetbox), this doesn't seem all that bad.

[brian @ Mar 4th 2009 4:40PM]

i'm always surprised there is a market for stuff like this. how much do you think it could really save someone who opted not to get the real thing? maybe $200?

[ProfessorDex @ Mar 4th 2009 4:41PM]

But to some people, that $200 savings is enough for them to justify buying crap.

[Aguiluz @ Mar 4th 2009 4:54PM]

http://www.m8cool.com/product/detail-33-3130-7276.aspx

It says the thing costs ¥2599


2599 Japanese yen = 33.39 Canadian dollars

[darkrooroo @ Mar 4th 2009 5:00PM]

aguiluz
¥2599 is not japanese yen. its chinese, which is around 400 usd

[CJ @ Mar 4th 2009 7:33PM]

Well, considering that the Vaio P is well over 2000 dollar here in Australia, it would have to try extremely hard not to be a good saving.

[Templarian @ Mar 4th 2009 4:40PM]

It's funny when the knock offs don't look like half bad products.

[Oli D @ Mar 4th 2009 4:55PM]

This is just the Acer Aspire One 10" with a facelift

[kamakaze @ Mar 4th 2009 4:42PM]

"win os X beta?!?!"

[Epsilon-Not @ Mar 4th 2009 4:42PM]

"Win OS X"?

[kjb434 @ Mar 4th 2009 4:44PM]

It's probably actually not bad even though it is obviously violating a tone of patent/copyright stuff.

[Shenanigans @ Mar 4th 2009 4:44PM]

Are these 'Keepin' it Real Fake' tangible items people can buy or photoshop 'I wish I could buy' figments of people's imagination?

On one hand, they look so similar to the name brand items, but on the otherhand, I know how chinese manufacturers can replicate stuff for cents on the dollar in Sony's case.

[kjb434 @ Mar 4th 2009 4:47PM]

Oh, they're real!

In the US you would have to go into a crummy looking electronic shop and find some rare knockoffs.

Ever had some try to sell you a Rolex on the side of the street and when you look close is says Molex?

The reality is that a lot of the manufacturers for electronics or in China. The manufacturer often re-brands and re-sells the product.

[Benson @ Mar 9th 2009 1:18PM]

Worse than that -- I tried to buy some Molex connectors, but when I looked closely, they were really Rolex -- totally useless to me!

:(

[Uncontrol @ Mar 4th 2009 4:45PM]

ahahahahaha

[AG @ Mar 4th 2009 4:48PM]

Vai-no buy me?

[Oli D @ Mar 4th 2009 4:53PM]

Wow a netbook with a slightly different lid...?

[Oli D @ Mar 4th 2009 4:59PM]

The proportions are fucked, look at the difference in width in the outside and inside shots...

[Justin Paulson @ Mar 4th 2009 4:59PM]

For $26 I'm tempted to try and get one....(¥2599 is $26 US)

[The WC @ Mar 4th 2009 5:12PM]

It's Chinese Yuan, not Japanese Yen, as darkrooroo stated above. So you're looking at around $400 instead of $26, Mr. Quickdraw.

[The Dude @ Mar 4th 2009 5:15PM]

It's actually ~$379.79. ¥ is for yuan in this case--not yen.

[finbred @ Mar 4th 2009 5:11PM]

Not that they'll ever make it to Finland, either, but interestingly 'vaino' means persecution/harassment/oppression in Finnish...

[STINK @ Mar 4th 2009 5:19PM]

Now if they ever build a PeeEssThwee, I'm sold!

[dcoaster @ Mar 4th 2009 6:00PM]

+1 internet

[jimjobe @ Mar 4th 2009 5:33PM]

If you could get your hands on this here in the US I would totally go for this. And Win OS X beta is waaaay faster than WindowsXP according to my informal file copy tests. But seriously, I would buy one.

[Josh @ Mar 4th 2009 6:26PM]

Did they mean for the name to be subtly ironic?

[Setnev @ Mar 4th 2009 6:27PM]

I love the Chinese to English translations from Google Translate.

"The second half of 2008, Internet started to hot up in this, but more are the high cost or low-cost low-quality products with low configuration. Billion in early 2009 domain and then carefully selected for a U.S. high-end fashion products work well, and the configuration is also quite good in this.Intel Atom 1.6G of the CPU, 1G memory, 160G hard disk, sufficient to meet the business needs as well as audio and video and casual games. With colleagues as saying that holding a single mother to go back to using enough. For those not satisfied with relatively simple Intelligent mobile phone functionality and not enough to facilitate the operation, with the usual mobile office notebook for business professionals, so compact in size to reduce the number of their burden. My suggestion is that the home and office desktop, system performance tyrants; go travel with a Netbook, convenient and practical."

[Down @ Mar 4th 2009 7:16PM]

Vainos are for single mothers?

[Dan Fruzzetti @ Mar 5th 2009 8:51AM]

AHAHA I have to draw that.. System performance tyrants... go travel with a Netbook.

LOL I wonder if the capitalization constitutes trademark infringement...

[MZLweasel @ Mar 4th 2009 8:24PM]

Am I really the first to notice this?

Highly fashionable and named VAIN-o?

[Benson @ Mar 9th 2009 1:21PM]

No, you're not.

See the writeup, where it says "Bearing the appellation that the Vaio P's highly fashionable media campaign has thus far only hinted at..."? So Joseph L. Flatley (not to mention all of us who bothered to read the writeup) noticed that before you did.

[LTM @ Mar 5th 2009 1:01AM]

Anyone ask if Sony are royally pissed.

[Tombio @ Mar 5th 2009 1:48AM]

Vaino... Pretty negative name for a laptop because it happens to mean persecution in Finnish...

[finbred @ Mar 5th 2009 5:49AM]

Myöhässä! ^^^ ;P

[Tombio @ Mar 5th 2009 7:18AM]

@finbred

Huomasin senkin myöhässä :D