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Sony VAIO X505 review

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Wednesday 17 May 2006, 11:42 AM

The perfect ultraportable


There's got to be sacrifices made if you want the lightest portable on the market. Me, I don't want to lug around an optical drive I use only rarely. I don't need blinding speed on the road. But I do want something so light and usable I have it with me all the time, to read and write e-mail, to write my book, to surf, to download my Nikon - and it does all those things flawlessless and reliably, and is still doing so two years on. I LOVE it.

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Sony's elegant VAIO X505 is an eminently portable notebook with just enough features and performance. But it's too expensive for most people.

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