PHOTOS: Sony Vaio CW

Hands-on the colourful lappie

PHOTOS: Sony Vaio CW

8 October 2009 18:27 GMT / By Chris Hall

Sony today launched the colourful line-up of CW laptops to replace the CS line and we were on hand to grab some shots.

Available in blue, red, pink and white (with a hot black Blu-ray model in the UK too), the CW series is designed to fuse portability and power, with a touch of colourful class.

The keyboard response was great from our brief play, with individual keys poking through the pink chassis.

The Vaio button under the screen will launch the Splashtop Linux OS, allowing you almost instant access to the Internet and saving you from having to start-up Windows 7 proper.

A Display Off button does exactly what you expect it to, letting you kill the screen when you don't need it, perhaps during lectures or whilst just listening to music. 

With a 14-inch 1366 x 768 display, these aren't the slimmest notebooks around, but you do get an optical drive and all the connectivity you'd expect – including the HDMI.

The Sony Vaio CW line will be hitting stores from 22 October, prices yet to be confirmed.

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Comments

  • I was looking for a very compact and portable laptop. Thank you so much for suggest me to buy Sony Vaio CW. It is pretty excellent. A 14-inch beauty with an HD resolution of 1366 x 768 that has some pretty interesting specification to go with what is one of the most interesting cases I have seen Toshiba produce.

    cartouche
    Posted by sara, u.s.a.
  • If you value reliability, good service and your business, I would NOT even touch Sony with a barge pole, hope this saves others from serious down-time when using VAIOs for business. I am absolutely convinced Sony VAIO is designed to fail and a complete rip-off. They should be avoided for their lousy and incompetent customer service, especially in Europe.
    Once it BSODs you have an expensive brick, go with a manufacturer that *tries* to backup their products, it’s a scandal the way Sony handled the GPU problem.
    Posted by Marco, United Kingdom
  • Every case is unique. I owned a Sony VAIO about 8 years ago. I used it on a daily basis for about 3 years and never had a single problem with it. After I got a newer computer, I handed the VAIO down to my sister to use. She had a 4 year old and a 2 year old whom she let use the computer as well. Even through all of the torture they put that computer through, it still held up. She still has it, but never uses it because she just recently purchased a new laptop. I'm impressed with the VAIO series. Every computer manufacturer will have stories of horror and people will insist that the brand is a curse on humanity. That's just the curse of electronics; a few bad seeds taints the whole crop, reputation wise. Posted by Mike, U.S.A.

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