Typing on it does have one massive drawback, and thatвЂ™s the fact that the touchpad is not recessed enough.

The keyboard is the right size and delightfully responsive, and lights up gently in darkness so itвЂ™s easy to type on a train or a plane. With a 13-inch screen and a built-in CD drive, the Sony Vaio S Series is clearly a notebook, but it is small and light enough (1.97kg) to slip in a bag and more or less go anywhere a netbook would вЂ“ though with a list price of around ВЈ900 you might think twice about hauling it about with too much gay abandon. IвЂ™ve finally got my hands on the companyвЂ™s Vaio S Series, which wants to be the ideal travelling workerвЂ™s companion. Even a brand as fashion-conscious as Sony has to keep up with what is actually selling. Which is why it was no surprise to see Sony вЂ“ the doyen of chic laptops вЂ“ refreshing its laptop range earlier this year. This is fine with me, because I think the netbook was never a very closely defined concept and it gradually dissolved вЂ“ perhaps as part of a Microsoft master plan вЂ“ when netbooks (once so lean and stripped back) started putting on the pounds, and notebooks became available in smaller sizes.Д«e that as it may, itвЂ™s predicted that around 58 million netbooks will be sold this year, compared with around ten million sales of AppleвЂ™s iPad and (weвЂ™d guess) somewhat fewer tablets from other vendors such as the Dell Streak, the HP Slate, a Google tablet, a Microsoft product, and so on.ДЄnd notebooks sell even more, of course. Since the iPad appeared, netbooks are so last year.

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