Sony W Series Vaio Netbook To Be Released
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Sony has announced the launch of its latest netbook, VAIO W Series in order to make its presence in the netbook market. Mukesh Srivastava, Product Manager - VAIO, Sony India said, "The share of netbook in the global PC market is around eight percent and we want to capture at least two percent of the market through this new product". The netbook will be launched globally on August 17 with the pre-booking in India starting from August 6.
Srivastava said that, "The USP of this netbook is the 10.1 inch display supporting a resolution of 1,366x768 pixels". As per him, Sony is the only netbook manufacturer to give such high resolution. He added, another important feature of the netbook that could grab users' attention would be the rounded design.
Sony VAIO W Series will be available in three colors white, pink and brown. The series will be powered by Atom N280 processor at 1.66 Ghz, one GB of RAM all running on a Intel 945GSE Express chipset. The new netbook has a 160 GB hard drive, card reader, Bluetooth, WI-Fi and a webcam. The unit measures 267.8x179.6x27.5 - 32.4mm, weighs 1.19 kg and has a battery backup of 2.5 hours.
The latest Sony Vaio W series mode comes with VAIO Media Plus Multimedia Streaming software, a media sharing application that lets the user to wirelessly stream content across DLNA-enabled devices throughout a particular network. The Vaio W series will ne available in India at just Rs. 29,990.