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Sony X505/SP Notebook Review

Posted by michael on from the eat-a-sandwich dept.

John Gaule writes "Earlier it was mentioned on Slashdot that Sony has introduced the worlds thinnest laptop, the Sony X505 which weighs just under 2lbs. Designtechnica has reviewed this system and compares it to the JVC Interlink 7310, Panasonic W2 and Sony TR1A laptops. Apparently Sony had to have a custom motherboard configured to get the CPU and hard drive in the right position for cooling. There is also no integrated WiFi but it uses an 802.11g WiFi PC Card."

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  1. Better link and more info on this laptop by W32.Klez.A · · Score: 4, Informative

    The full review on one page is available here.

    Also, I must say, that is quite the small laptop. And you can see the fingerprints all over it in one of the photos on the main article. :-)

    There are other images available here as well.

  2. Alt link for info by KirkH · · Score: 4, Informative

    The page seems to be dead, Jim, but here's another source of info on the X505.

  3. Sharp Actius MM-10 by kindbud · · Score: 4, Informative

    I got one of these. It weighs slightly more than the Sony, but has a Transmeta 933Mhz CPU, integrated 100baseT and 802.11b, 2 USB 2.0 ports, 10.1" TFT, and a touchpad. It runs Linux with no problem, except that the ALi sound chip doesn't support SPDIF, yet the sound driver expects this chip to support SPDIF and tries to initialize those ports with colorful results. :) A few minutes' hacking on the driver source, and that problem was solved.

    With the bigger battery, its weight goes up to a whole 2.9 lbs, but it runs for 9 hours.

    --
    Edith Keeler Must Die
  4. Fujitsu P-Series by tercero · · Score: 4, Informative

    After having my own Sony woes with my Clie and a friend's Vaio, I went on a search for the perfect (for me of course) sub-notebook.

    My search ended at the Fujitsu P-5010. It's the size of a book so it fits in my backpack easily. It's not thin, but at 3.4 lbs it's light. It's 1" thickness prevents it from being fragile (with it in my bag, I've fallen on my bag...no damage). Plus the modular bay battery allows me to use it for about 7 hours of compiling Gentoo before I have to plug it in.

    Linux support is good (except for wide-angle resolution, gotta go XiG for that).

    My only complaints are: XFree can't do 1280x768 on the i855gm chipset (this may be fixed soon). I like a trackpoint more than a touchpad.

    Check out the P-series forums at leog.net