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Sony Japan has just announced that they are going to make a new netbook, supposedly one that’s more inline with the price of other netbooks ($300-$500 range), as opposed to the ridiculously overpriced (around

the Vaio W Netbook (yes, they’re saying it’s a real netbook this time) will be available in the U.S. in August of this year for….$499! Frankly, I’m impressed, I really expected them to overprice the thing, but that’s right in the upper end of netbook territory. Here’s what we know for sure so far: 10.1-inch 1366 x 768 screen, 1.6GHz Atom, 160GB HDD, Bluetooth, 802.11 b/g/n, Windows XP, 1GB of RAM, two USB ports, Ethernet, webcam, and MemoryStick / SD card readers–pretty standard as far as netbooks go, I really hope they’re not going to price this one over 400, since you can get a laptop now with way better specs than that for 600… Of course, like all other Vaios, it will probably end up being the prettiest, sleekest, and most ergonomic in its class (the picture you see above is actually the Vaio W, and I’ve got a video below straight from Sony on it)–and you know you’re going to pay for that, too. Here’s a clip that Sony has put together showing of the Vaio W, it doesn’t have much info, but you do get to see it from lots of angles…erm…yeah:

Additional Resources and Further Reading

Official Sony U.S. page for the Vaio W - yes, they are accepting pre-orders, and students get a discount of some sort.

Official Sony Japan page for the Vaio W