Sony claims lightest laptop
Japanese company Sony is laying claim to having the lightest laptop ever. The company this week announced a new Sony Vaio 8-inch laptop which the company says is the lightest in its class.
The new notebook will weigh less than 1kg and will be as thin as a mobile phone.
The price tag, however, isn’t nearly as light. Announcing the laptop at the Consumer Electronics Show Sony said that expected to sell the laptop for around $900 (R9 000) which is substantially pricier than existing netbook PCs with which the Vaio will compete.
Locally the most expensive netbooks cost R1 000 less than the new Vaio. The high-end Acer Aspire one sells for approximately R8 000 with built-in 3G.
The new Sony Vaio will ship with Windows Vista operating system, which also makes is mostly unique in a market which has adopted Linux or XP as the preferred operating system for netbooks.
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