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Sony VAIO VGN-UX1XN review
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Inside Intel's Santa Rosa platform
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Acer's Santa Rosa TravelMate notebooks
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Dell enters tablet market
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AMD debuts Griffin mobile processor
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32GB solid state disk comes to UK notebooks
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Photos: Palm Foleo
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Buyer's Guide: Santa Rosa notebooks
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Intel's turbo memory needs a boost
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Mobility: Make The Case (PDF)
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Overview
Sony VAIO VGN-UX1XN
- Editors rating
7.2
Verdict
Sony's ultra-mobile VAIO is a marvel of engineering, squeezing a fully fledged notebook's functionality into a (chunky) handheld form factor. But there are many ergonomic compromises within this device, which is also very expensive.
Typical price
£ 1701
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Nokia E63
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