Sony Vaio M surfaces... unofficially
By Laura June 
posted March 4th 2010 2:04AM
posted March 4th 2010 2:04AM
posted March 4th 2010 2:04AM
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I thought sony was against the netbook idea?
Can't really go against the trend right??
@lepetitprince Guess you missed their previous netbook, the W.
@lepetitprince they'll prove themselves by giving this POS a >$799 price tag
Enjoy your 2 hour battery life
@lepetitprince
Welcome back from your coma
@HerbieDerb Thanks dude!
Thank you all of you!
I'm not in US rite now where I can read engadget everyday i want to.
And don't really follow Vaio's news like you guys.
@jayayess1190 yes I have totally missed it. I'm currently in this country where such thing as internet provider don't exist but fortunately enough to buy almost any cellphone possible but unfortunately you have to pay twice since they are all unlocked!
Miss my daily engadget feeds.
Really sony? I expected them to have a cpu with more oomph and a carbon fiber case. I always thought that in terms of looks and pricing, Sony was the Apple of PC manufacturers. This is just so... ordinary.
@Darryl That's straying into Sony X territory.
I'm surprised too. Someone must have complained the W was too bling and fancy and they needed a perfectly normal netbook labelled"Sony". Probably for the Asia and Japan markets where Sony is better received.
Frankly Sony has quite a few cool ultraportables already. I wish they'd do a MT tablet and include SSDs in all TTs, but that's about it for me.
@YpoCaramel
they would if they still made them. your best option would be the Z
And the price will be $600-$1000.
Its a Sony!
@(Unverified) Sony W from Sony Style: $450.
The expensive price is reserved for their cool shit.
@YpoCaramel
even their cool shit isnt so expensive these days . . . the 16.4" core i7 starts at $999 I think!
Wait, wait, ... let me guess what the M stands for....
M...a....c...
MacHine! Cuz, it looks like a really nice MacHine. What?
@Wesscoast
Coherence is not your strong suit, sir.
@Wesscoast
Macs copy keyboards and glossy displays from Sony Vaios, so keep this 2-cent assumption to yourself that Apple is the only original company
@Wesscoast
I actually thought it looked more like a Dell...
I suppose the hinge does look like MacBook's hinge. That's about it.
More cookie cutter netbook with the similar boring specs and design.
Boring.
Haha I like this
Sony is the best
Wow, P, then W, now M
looks like Sony went full netbook, you never go full netbook
@JeremyBenthem
im sure the reason i caught this is because i have nearly every line of that memorized from watching it 2.6 thousand times haha
*movie
blah blah blah, 1.66GHz Atom, 1GB ram, blah, blah, blah. This is so old it's ridiculous. Can't we just agree that netbooks have gone stale- even Ion2- and forget about it? How about engadget just say "Sony created a new netbook." No need for extra words or even a commenting page. Everyone will know the specs are the same and skip the post all together. Just an idea...
@think before you react
Yeah, that's very true... I was looking at netbooks in a store the other day and the specs were all nearly identical on about 8 different units.
I'm up on Vaio laptops, though. My wife snagged one with blu-ray and HDMI for about $650. Very solid feeling, too! Only complaint is the poor battery life.
No ion2 in sight?
Boring boring Boring... Even my pooch just looked at the screen sniffed his butt and went back to sleep.
I expect more from the Apple of Asia
Ahhh, if this had ion 2 I'd buy one. I have a soft spot for sony (not mem stick duo though!). Don't hate me.
Ballmer, 2005
"I'm going to f—ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f—ing kill Google,"
Ballmer 2010
"I'm going to f—ing tag that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f—ing tag Google,"
Nice to see Ballmer's leadership skills blossoming...
I'm not even considering anything that isn't Ion2 with a 1366 X 768 screen with at least the capability to take 4GB of ram. Now if sony would do a new Vaio P with the new Atom and Ion2, and Win7 I would be very very interested - even at their inflated prices. I still think the Vaio P's form factor is near perfect.
Sony makes premium products. Their netbooks should be the "premium" kind, the kind with Ion.
They started off with the VAIO P which was kinda premium, but in the wrong direction. Sony really needs an Ion netbook, not just a standard Intel GMA spec netbook in a nice-looking case.
@Laura June
Looks like it'll be out in the UK by the end of March as it's showing up on Tesco Direct now for £299, see:
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22748
At last back again to a GOOD keyboard with a big enough right shift key that is also located on the keyboard so that trying to press it will not result too often in mispressing the arrow up key. (This is really an annoying issue on both the W and P models.)
So thank you Sony, please continue to make models with this kind of keyboard as the the new M series has! This is almost a must for all of us who writes a lot.