Keepin' it real fake, part CCXXIII: VAIO W netbook clone handily beats Sony to market

Turns out by the time Sony went official with its inaugural VAIO W netbook, it was already old news to the Chinese KIRF market. The "VAIO" pictured above apparently came out some time in mid-June and does a laudable job of honoring the actual one's chassis, although the keyboard is more traditional than Sony's isolated / chiclet stylings. Throw in a 10.2-inch LED display, 1.6GHz Atom processor, integrated graphics, a 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM, and decently convincing packaging and you'd be liable to think you went through a time warp spotting this in Shenzhen. It's got a pretty sizable head start on the legit version, but something tells us this particular model won't be trying its luck elsewhere in the world.

[Via PMP Today and Cloned in China]

[notnarb Posted Jul 12th 2009 4:49PM]

Is that a meizu m3 in the picture? I thought they had stopped production of those long ago

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 12th 2009 8:35PM]

I can see many Chinese reading this blog :D

[meepmeep Posted Jul 13th 2009 1:15AM]

Judging by the lack of rabid sinophobic comments?

Yeah.

[aeth Posted Jul 12th 2009 8:40PM]

Windows XP Basic? Haha

[techngear Posted Jul 30th 2009 1:08AM]

I don't know, I think those headphones are racist by nature.

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