When Sony’s VAIO W netbook was released, we said the company would “have to do better than put a pretty face on a vanilla set of innards to get our next five Benjamins.” So what has the company done to raise the appeal of its little netbook? Boosted the processor? Added a big SSD? Lowered the price? Nah, it went ahead and painted some snowflakes on the lid. Pretty though they may be they still hide the same 10.1-inch, 1366 x 768 LCD, 1.6GHz Atom, and 1GB of RAM. There are some improvements: storage is upped a bit, a 250GB HDD instead of 160, and it now includes Windows 7 Starter instead of XP. And there are snowflakes. Still $499. Get yours before they melt!
[Via Sony Insider]
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Sony applies next-gen snowflake tech to boost VAIO W’s appeal originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Dell and leaks go together like peas in a pod, and just months after we saw the outfit’s Vostro 1220 sneak out ahead of schedule, it seems as if another in the biz-minded line has found its way onto the web. Reportedly, Dell hosted up a few images (which have since been yanked) of a so-called Vostro 10, which seems to resemble the newer Inspiron line in design and looks to boast an almost unheard-of-at-this-size integrated optical drive. Unless Dell’s just playing games (our wager is “no”), the unit should get official in the near future in black, red and blue. ‘Course, the specs, price and actual ship date is anyone’s guess, but feel free to pontificate in comments below.
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Dell inadvertently throws Vostro 10 out there, quickly reels it back in originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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