VAIO P gets whole new lease on life with Atom Z550 processor, SSD and WiMAX

A whole new day is dawning for the never-ever-a-netbook Sony VAIO P -- those new processor and drive upgrades apparently have the little PC churning through benchmarks at twice the pace of the original. Most of the benchmark help comes from the SSD drive, but the Atom Z550 doesn't hurt. Meanwhile, Japan is getting a WiMAX version to churn through stereotypically Japanese websites in record time. We'd be jealous if only we lived under 1,000 miles from the nearest WiMAX signal.

Read - VAIO P gets WiMAX
Read - VAIO P benchmarks

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2009 9:19AM]

And in Europe the dam thing hasn't even been launched yet. None of the models. Latest news is June - And that shit has almost left to.. sweet

[LondonConsultant Posted Jun 14th 2009 4:31PM]

The VAIO P has been widely available in UK for a long time, eg just pop into a John Lewis store. Maybe you don't get out much.

[Inzain Posted Jun 14th 2009 1:28PM]

The only viable netbook available right now since it comes with a trackpoint nib rather than a horrid and space wasting trackpad. If I were to ever buy a netbook for portability, this would be at the top of my list.

[sr1329 Posted Jun 14th 2009 7:46PM]

Yeah, trackpoint is the only way to go. Touchpads are for people who don't know better.

[INsano Posted Jun 14th 2009 11:14PM]

I live in Portland...Wimax is great. Hmmm...this would be a pretty sweet thing...

[tonyprince Posted Jun 14th 2009 6:18PM]

The sad truth about this is that the inside sucks. the screen is small that u have to scroll down to see the start menu then scroll on the browser to see what youre reading on top of what I just mentioned.

Go demo it out at best buy/ frys.

[dnl2ba Posted Jun 14th 2009 6:48PM]

Oh, good, benchmarks so I feel better about paying *even more* for the Japanese 1.86GHz Atom + SSD model.

The screen is 768 pixels high, more than a lot of netbooks. So if you use Windows 7's easy left/right window docking feature, you can get two 800x768 (minus the Task Bar height) browser windows. The resolution is still really fine, though, so I crank up the Windows system DPI and use full-page zoom in my browser (they all support it now).