The wait on AMD's Fusion has been so long that we feel like we should pop open the bubbly every time another laptop ships with it. Latest off the assembly line is Sony's VAIO YB series, which gives you a 1.6GHz processor to make similarly-clocked Atoms AMD-green with envy, 4GB of RAM and 500GB of hard drive space, an 11.6-inch glossy screen with 1366 x 768 resolution, and up to six hours of battery life for $599.99. It's available in silver and pink varieties today, or you can wait a little while longer for Amazon to get stock of its lower-specced variant, with 2GB of RAM and 320GB of storage, which will cost you $50 less. See more of the VAIO YB in our CES hands-on gallery below.
100$ too expensive, and the cheaper model should be 100$ cheaper.
ReplyDeleteSo Fusion has arrived... As if Intel didn't already have enough to worry about with it's faulty bridges (sandy) and it's power sucking atoms. Plus, aren't these Fusions Direct X 11 capable....
ReplyDeleteHmm..I am not surprised this costs more than equivalents coming from sony, but damn...it comes in pink! How tempting..
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ReplyDeleteSony Vaios suck! Trust me, I have one.
ReplyDeleteyes, thats what i learned from my vaio.
ReplyDeleteno support, no build quality (too much cheap plastic for a sony pruduct.
edit: oh, and tons of crapware
I had a Vaio several years ago and although I really liked the design and hardware, their support was so horrible that I haven't even considered buying another Vaio ever since. It's really sad how Sony can come up with some really good ideas and then kill the product with useless support and crappy software.
ReplyDeleteTo much money for what is still just a netbook . true you can do a litte more with new amd fusion CPU
ReplyDeletebut it still just a net book
Also i can get and acer netbook with with AMD Fusion in it for far less
they should really try to keep the netbook style computer around the 400 dollar mark and lower
for 600 buck i can a full blown 13 inch laptop with better spec and just as good battery life
and i think 13 inch would work just fine lug around as this would
Todd, not to troll, but what has better specs at $600 and 7 hours of battery or more?
ReplyDeleteThe problem is, some person (like me) just don't want a 13 inch notebook.
ReplyDeleteI love how portable my HP Mini 311, easy to be carried around, easy to put on small table.
or a white iphone 4!!! 32 geebeeeeees and the wifis!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd again, being a VAIO, it's priced like a VAIO.
ReplyDeleteBecause it's not made in a communist country (japan)
ReplyDeletehad one (yb series) and that is made in China:)
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