At this age when most companies are busy churning out cheap netbooks, Sony decided to enter the scene in a totally different fashion with the Vaio P. It measures 9.7 x 4.7 x 0.8 - small enough to fit inside a suit jacket pocket. It comes with a glassy onyx black lid and a silver deck and keyboard. To achieve such portability, Sony had to cut back on some places. The keyboard is only 88 percent full and eschews a touchpad by using a pointing stick instead. The pointing stick has a fabric-feel that makes it relatively simple to control the cursor. Due to its thin profile, the Vaio P doesn’t have many ports or slots. Despite the 8-inch screen, the unit has an impressive 1600 x 768 pixel resolution. The ultra-wide XBrite-Eco display does away with the need for side-to-side scrolling and provided sharp and colorful images as well as good viewing angles. The Sony Vaio P features a one-quick boot option that sends users into a Linux environment. The Atom CPU and 2GB of RAM wasn’t enough to offer a snappy Vista performance. Unlike most netbooks, the Vaio P features an 802.11b/g/n adapter as well as an EV-DO connection. The standard capacity battery powered the Vaio P for 2 hours and 4 minutes. If you are looking for a “pocket-size” notebook and have the money to burn, the Sony Vaio P is the notebook to get.