Editor's Note: The UX180P is discontinued, as is the UX280P. Read our review of the Sony Vaio UX380N with a gig of RAM, slightly faster CPU and Windows Vista .
A few things are certain: death, taxes and that Sony will release some unbearably cool new piece of technology every year. Last year it was the PSP, this time it's the Vaio UX series. We'll cover the UX180P, which is the US version of Sony's new Micro PC. Shying away from the UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) design, introduced in late May 2006, Sony decided to do it their way and create yet another highly mobile concept in full Windows XP computing. Indeed, the UX is quite different from the Samsung Q1 UMPC, and bears more similarity (conceptually) to the OQO model 01. Sony perhaps learned from the OQO's shortcomings, thus releasing a more solid, usable machine for $200 less than the model 01's original price. Certainly it's not cheap at $1,799, but we're happy to see any kind of downward price trend in groundbreaking hardware.So what is a Micro PC? It's Sony's latest creative venture into super-small Windows computing. It honestly makes last year's very interesting and also ground-breaking Sony Vaio U50 / U70 / U750 look pedestrian. It fits in the palms of your hands, runs Windows XP Professional (a sticker on the box says it's Windows Vista-ready), measures just under 6 x 3.74 x 1.27 - 1.5 inches and weighs 1.2 pounds. In the fine Sony tradition, it has everything except the kitchen sink: WiFi 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth, 10/100 Ethernet, a good selection of ports (some require the included docking station or dongle), a WSVGA touch screen XBRite display, the new Intel Core Solo processor running at 1.2GHz, 512 megs of DDR2 RAM, a fast 533MHz front side bus, an EDGE radio (built-in Sony Ericsson card) locked to Cingular (call Sony to get it unlocked if needed), a backlit thumb keyboard, biometric fingerprint scanner (a must on a device that's small enough to easily more info pls contact by msn a2z0019 or My ICQ:487590942
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